CAVE training

Virginia Tech CAVE training:
With NCSA-EVL as a CAVE Partner Virginia Tech will first take advantage of NCSA CAVE training programs. The first NCSA training program took place on August 1996 as a two week course that was called the Visual Supercomputing Institute - I (VSI-I). Jongran Lee, a Ph.D student in Interior Design attended this program. Ron Kriz was in Japan the Summer of 1996 so he attended VSI-II. Joan McLain-Kark, Dennis Jones, and John Kelso attended VSI-III. John Kelso, Pranas Pauliukonis, Revathy Narasimhan, and Ferando das Neves attended CAVE Boot Camp Training. Since then we have made efforts to create our own training classes.

NCSA training:

NCSA training home page
NCSA Virtual Reality Training Information
Visual Supercomputing Institute - I, NCSA August 1996,
Visual Supercomputing Institute - II, NCSA Sept. 9-3, 1996.
CAVE Boot Camp Training (December 3-7, 1997) for students in ESM 4984 Fall 97.

Virginia Tech Training:

ESM 4984: Scientific Visual Data Analysis, Fall 1997 ( Introduction to VT-CAVE Programming, 97
VT-CAVE SLUG, Intro to CAVE Programming, 1999, by Chad Wingrave.
College of Architecture and Urban Studies: Intro to VE, from CAD to CAVE, advanced simulation, Spring 1999.
Training K12 Virginia governors school instructors, June 1999: VRML in the CAVE Collaborative Console
Training Maryland Virtual High School instructors, March 2000: VRML in the CAVE Collaborative Console

RESULTS:

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Virtual Environment Workshop August 6-10, 2001:
VRML & CCC / User Interface Design and Evaluation" / The DIVERSE course / Cluster Computing
TrackM, Faculty Development Workshop, May 15-17, 2002:
Visualization and Virtual Environment for Research and Education
- Day 1: Introduction to VRML 1.0, Diversifly, and the CAVE Collaborative Console
- Day 2: DIVERSE API Course
- Day 3: VE User Interface Design and Usability
Free Workshop Open to Public, May 20-21, 2002:
Virutal Environments Using DIVERSE: Download Brochure
ESM 4714: Scientific Visual Data Analysis, Spring 2003 ( Introduction to VT-CAVE Programming, 2003)

Free Workshop Open to Public, May 20-21, 2003
Virtual Environments Using DIVERSE:
- Day 1 AM: Introduction to DPF DIVERSE and VE Basics
- Day 1 PM: Converting 3D Scenegraphsn to CAVE compatible format: scroll down to bottom of page
- Day 2 AM: Programming with DIVERSE
Free Workshop Open to Public, August 16-17, 2004
Virtual Environments Using DIVERSE for Nonprogrammers and Programmers:
- Day 1 AM: Intro to DPF DIVERSE, VE Basics, and 3D Scenegraphs for nonprogrammers (Ron Kriz, VT-UVAG)
- Day 1 PM: DIVERSE Basics (John Kelso, NIST)
- Day 2 AM: DIVERSE Programming (Dan Larimer, OpenTech Inc.)
- Day 2 PM: DIVERSE Adapatable Display System (Pat Shinpaugh, VT- UVAG)

Please send your comments and questions to Ron Kriz at: rkriz@vt.edu
Last Revision March 3, 2005
http://www.sv.vt.edu/future/cave/training/training.html