The Virtual Reality and Robotics facilities contain state-of-the-art hardware and software, including:

Robotics

• Pioneer DX3 mobile robot with fore and aft sonar arrays
• Color camera and a PZ three degree of freedom positioning platform
• A five degree of freedom robot arm with a gripper
• Associated control and processing software

Virtual Reality Hardware

• SGI Onyx
• Dual Processor PCs
• Headmounted Displays  (VR6, 3D I/O glasses,  i-visor, Crystal eyes stereo glasses)
• Ascension wired Motion Star position trackers (16)
• Polhemus Liberty position tracters (8)
• 5DT Data Glove
• Omni haptic feedback device
• Body-mounted virbro-tactile touch actuators (16)
• Creative Audiology 3D sound system

Virtual Reality Software

• Modeling packages (SoftImage, TrueSpace, 3D Studio Max)
• Dragon Naturally Speaking Voice Recognition Software
• VR_Station:  networked VR software platform
• VR_Sim:  networked simulation engine software
• Multiple game development software packages

*This material in this section is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. EIA-0116295  and Grant No. 0353687. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.