LIMBO/VTK: A Tool for Rapid Tele-Immersive Visualization
Jason Leigh, Paul J. Rajlich, Robert J. Stein, Andrew E. Johnson, Thomas A. DeFanti · 1998
This "Late Breaking Hot Topic Paper" describes LIMBO/VTK a tool that allows developers to quickly build collaborative visualization applications for CAVE, ImmersaDesk as well as desktop workstations. LIMBO/VTK is based on two broadly used technologies: CAVERNsoft, a library for supporting collaborative Virtual Reality; and the Visualization Toolkit, an extensive library for supporting 3D graphics and visualization. Keywords: Virtual Reality, VTK, VR, Collaborative, Distributive, CAVE, CAVERN 1 Introduction We define the term Tele-Immersion as the integration of audio and video conferencing with collaborative virtual reality (VR) in the context of data-mining and significant computation. When participants are tele-immersed, they are able to see and interact with each other in a shared environment. This environment persists even when all the participants have left. The environment may control supercomputing computations, query databases autonomously and gather the results for visualiza...