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The Caves of Lascaux…or simply LASCAUX…was not so much a WTK demo as it was a prominent art exhibit developed, in part, with the Sense8 libraries. It was the brain child of Benjamin Britton, then an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visual artist Benjamin Britton took a lot of flack from the French culturati when he proposed creating a virtual-reality exhibition based on the prehistoric Lascaux caves of France. “They thought that I would put Mickey Mouse ears on the bison,” recalls Britton.<\/p>\nWired, Feb 24, 1997<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ben describes the development experience on his own website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Ben’s work was already sort of legendary during my time at Sense8, my hands on introduction was during Siggraph ’97 when Sense8 planned to exhibit a CAVE VR system at the show, featuring content from LASCAUX as well are recent data from the Mars rover mission. (Honestly, at the time, I was much more excited about the Mars data, but came to greatly appreciate the Lascaux work.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press Release: \n\nSENSE8 TO HOST 3D\/VR WALK-THROUGH OF MARTIAN LANDSCAPE\nMill Valley, CA -- SENSE8 Corporation will host an immersive 3D\/Virtual\n\nReality (3D\/VR) walk-through of the Martian landscape and the caves at Lascaux in the SENSE8 booth at SIGGRAPH 97. Participants will take part in a fully immersive stereoscopic experience on the surface of the Red Planet from within a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE), engineered by Pyramid Systems. Guests will also have the opportunity to explore a 3D\/VR simulation of the world-renowned caves and ancient wall paintings at Lascaux, France.\n\nPyramid's CAVE is a 10'xlO x10' structure consisting of four\nrear-projected screen walls and a front-projected floor displaying a\nsimulated Martian environment or prehistoric art gallery. The simulation will be controlled by an application built on top of SENSE8 WorldToolKit(WTK) and will run on a Silicon Graphics Onyx supercomputer. With a pair of LCD stereoscopic glasses from Stereographics Corporation, participants will be treated to a truly other worldly experience. The movements of the virtual explorers will be tracked by electronic sensors which allow the CAVE to continuously update its displays.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The CAVE (Cave Automated Virtual Environment) system is itself an impressive setup. It was a 10’x10′ room with rear projected screens on each wall and a top-down projector depicting the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Multiple people could participate in the simulation simultaneously and only needed to wear lightweight LCD shutter glasses to experience the 3D effect.<\/p>\n\n\n
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