Facilities

 

The UMBC Virtual Reality & Mechanisms Laboratory is located in room 115 of Engineering and Computer Science Building and is equipped with following hardware and software.

Virtual Reality Equipments:

  • VisDuo-SX 10 feet by 7.5 feet passive stereo display system with duo projectors rendering 3D graphics at maximum resolution 1400x1050.
  • PPT X4 (Precision Position Tracker, by WorldViz Inc.) with maximum tracking space 10m by 10m by 10m, less than 1 mm precision.  There are one wireless 6DOF wand and four wired 6DOF sensors which are capable of tracking up to four 6DOF targets.
  • InterSense InertiaCube orientation tracker
  • CyberGlove 22 sensor wireless (Immersion Inc.),
  • VR 1280 SXGA HMD (Virtual Research Inc.)
  • SensAble Technology’s PHANToM (Personal HAptic iNTerface Mechanism) haptic devices,
  • A DELL Precision 690 workstation with quad core XEON CPU and nVidia Quadro FX 4600 video card.
  • A few Precision 3400 workstations with quad core CPU.

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Software:

  • Vizard VR Toolkit (WorldViz Inc.),
  • VirtualHand SDK (Immersion Inc.)
  • Matlab VRML toolbox
  • WorkingModel 2D
  • OpenHaptics Toolkit
  • ABAQUS
  • Mathematica
  • Matlab
  • Solidworks.
  • Pro/Engineer

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