CAVEStudy: an infrastructure for computational steering in virtual reality environments

We present the CAVEStudy system that enables scientists to interactively steer a simulation from a virtual reality (VR) environment. No modification to the source code is necessary. CAVEStudy allows interactive and immersive analysis of a simulation running on a remote computer. Using a high-level description of the simulation, the system generates the communication layer (based on CAVERN-Soft) needed to control the execution and to gather data at runtime. We describe three case-studies implemented with CAVEStudy: soccer simulation, diode laser simulation and molecular dynamics.

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