AsianScientist (May 15, 2014) – Looking for new perspectives to inspire scientific solutions? CAVE2, a research visualization facility, might just be what you need.
Worth AUD$1.8 million and based in the New Horizons Center headquartered at Monash University, CAVE2 is an immersive 2D and 3D virtual reality center that aims to power research in a variety of areas such as engineering, science and medicine. It is funded by the Australian Government through the Education Investment Fund.
According to the facility’s official webpage, the 84 million pixel CAVE2 is a highly immersive environment comprising a suite of multimedia and 3D technologies. It also enables the interactive exploration of data from sources including the synchrotron, electron microscopes, medical imaging instruments and a variety of simulations.
Completed last year, the facility has already played a part in research, having assisted new research into the reasons based on which people are predisposed to Huntington’s disease.
“New tools such as CAVE2 that give researcher another way of interpreting their data could add substantial value in some fields,” said Professor Ian Chubb, Chief Scientist of Australia, who officially opened the facility.
After the first CAVE had been designed and built at the University of Illinois, Chicago, CAVE2 was built as a larger version of the original. Presently, it is the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Source: Monash University.
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