i3D Cave

The i-CAVE is a fully immersive and interactive visualization system that provides extremely vivid stereoscopic views of sceneries in 3-D developed by the research team at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. The system is developed based on the technologies of distributed virtual reality.

The i-CAVE is a low cost, high performance generic Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) system that provides a versatile and powerful virtual reality platform for cost effective design, analysis and evaluation of complex engineering systems and operations; e-training and e-learning. In practice, the system can be readily configured quickly to provide immersive virtual environment for users to obtain first hand experience of such environment without the limitations of time and space. The system can also be used for training and skill evaluation, a tool for complex system analysis and design such as in the development of products, buildings, and other facilities. In addition, user interfaces such as data gloves, trackers, joysticks, motion platform can be readily connected to the imseCAVE for enhanced immersiveness and interactivity of the virtual environment.