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APGV started with a tour of the Max Planck Institute (MPI). Talk about impressive...at Clemson we just installed an 8-camera Vicon mocap system. Here, in one lab they had 16 cameras, mainly for VR research. In the next room they'd set up a (huge) robot arm to serve as a virtual helicopter simulator. There was also a kind of surround-sight display that you literally stepped in and were surrounded by imagery from multiple projectors (were they hard to calibrate? "Yes!" was the answer; this has to do with making sure that no seams are visible from multiple projected images.) Kind of like a rounded CAVE but without the sharp corners. Then there was another version of a helicopter simulator, composed of about 9 flat panels that they had just set up that very day (about an hour before the tour). It's hard to describe all of it...the day ended with a BBQ reception. Today it's a full day of paper presentations ending with the keynote address on dynamic range and visual perception.
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