Enabling Tiled Displays for Education
Luc Renambot, Tom van der Schaaf · 2002
This document describes the interaction with the ICWall tiled display built at the Vrije Universiteit, within a project called MultiVLA. The display has been setup within an educational environment and is used for several lectures from computer science (graphics, parallel programming, AI), physics, and chemistry. We describe a system consisting of several free software components that allows novice users to display their multimedia onto the tiled display. The user interface is simple and requires no knowledge about the underlying architecture, hiding the complex parallel rendering system driving the display. Since the wall is also used for research, the system allows for flexible switching between desktop applications and virtual reality applications