The new FIU I-CAVE, which opened on Friday, January 29th, is displaying a full immersion experience of Shakespeare's London c. 1598.
This event at the I-CAVE is part of FIU programming scheduled around the Folger Shakespeare Library's national traveling exhibition First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare. First Folio at FIU is presented by the College of Arts, Sciences & Education, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, and FIU Libraries. First Folio at FIU sponsors include the College of Architecture + The Arts, FIU Foundation, Inc., Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Margarita P. Muiña, J.D., L.L.M., The Betsy-South Beach, Blue Martini, British American Business Council Miami, Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation, and Miami City Social. Sponsorship opportunities are available to support this exhibit's only appearance in Florida. Learn more at folio.fiu.edu.
Integrated Computer Augmented Virtual Environment (I-CAVE) is an instructional and research visualization facility located on FIU's Modesto Maidique Campus 1. This facility can be used for both undergraduate and graduate instruction in a variety of fields across the natural and social sciences, humanities and professional programs. The I-CAVE provides new opportunities for students and faculty for research, creative projects, learning exploration and data visualization. The benefit for users is tremendous, as this virtual environment provides for 2-D and 3-D visualizations of scalable data, a completely immersive experience of a virtual space, and the capacity to explore new ideas, places or objects in a dynamic and interactive visual environment. (Source)
Currently, there are CAVE facilities located on most major research universities in the United States and abroad. This includes the Computer Graphics Group at Brown University, the Visualization Research Lab at the University of New Hampshire, the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Chicago, and the Calit2 at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology.
The FIU I-CAVE will be only the second Virtual Reality environment built in the Florida university system, after the facility at the University of Central Florida.
I-CAVE is the outcome of a joint collaboration between The College of Architecture + the Arts and the College of Engineering and Computing, through a team co-directed by Dr. Shu-Ching Chen (Professor, FIU CIS) and Shahin Vassigh (Professor, FIU CARTA). The project has been funded by FIU's Technology Fee Funds.
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