Daniel J. Sandin

The CAVE, a virtual reality theater.
The speaker will describe the CAVE and other V.R. delivery systems and in the process develop a definition of virtual reality. These defining characteristics of V.R. will be applied to the question of the design of virtual reality experiences, and to the relationship of V.R. to previous visual media.

Daniel J. Sandin is a director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), a professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and an adjunct professor at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Sandin is the inventor of the "Sandin Image Processor and co-inventor of "The CAVE Virtual Theater" as well as an internationally recognized expert in computer graphics, and renowned for his electronic art. He has exhibited his electronic art worldwide and has received many awards; he has received grants and fellowships from such distinguished organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and, his 1975 video "Spiral PTL (Perhaps The Last)," created with DeFanti, is in the inaugural collection of video art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

websites:
EVL home page: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EVL/docs/html/homePage.html
discription of CAVE: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EVL/docs/html/CAVE.html
VROOM( lots of CAVE aplications with images): http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EVL/docs/html/VROOM.html
VRML demos of CAVE aplications: http://jaka.eecs.uic.edu/dave/vrml/

Email Address: dan@evl.eecs.uic.edu