100 Million Pixels of Virtual Reality 190
Roland Piquepaille writes "It's ironic that Iowa State University (ISU) announced a big upgrade of its C6 virtual reality (VR) room the same day as SGI filed for bankruptcy. Back in 2000, this 10x10x10 foot room was powered by SGI Onyx2 computers. The new version of this six-sided VR room will use 96 graphics processing units from Hewlett-Packard. And with its 24 Sony digital projectors, the researchers at ISU will immerse themselves into images of about 100 million pixels in the most realistic VR room in the world. Of course, this upgrade is not cheap. But with this $4 million addition, this new C6 should lead to new advances in urban planning, genetics, engineering or unmanned aerial vehicles."
Thats not all it will lead the field in (Score:4, Funny)
100 million pixels of virtual pr0n... nope, no way to hide that at work!
New Advances in Genetics, eh? (Score:3, Funny)
Drool (Score:3, Funny)
Nice picture of the room in TFA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's not irony (Score:5, Funny)
Poor quality (Score:5, Funny)
Re:New Advances in Genetics, eh? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Poor quality (Score:4, Funny)
Re:At least ISU is spending wisely (Score:5, Funny)
Such as spending 3k for Graphics design computers for use as word processors.
Good to see your university is getting ready for Vista.
Re:New Advances in Genetics, eh? (Score:1, Funny)
Read: "Yup, that's why we've got wipe clean floors. I'm here at ISU until I've got forearms like Popeye."
Re:Poor quality (Score:3, Funny)
I'm a bad, bad person
Re:Ames Sucks (Score:3, Funny)
You're obviously not very familiar with Iowa. There are plenty of other places that make ames look like NYC.