World’s best hybrid visualization system up and running at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

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University of Hawaiʻi
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Kelli Abe Trifonovitch, (808) 228-8108
Director of Communications & Outreach, University of Hawaiʻi System
Posted: Nov 26, 2016

UH Manoa student research assistant Noel Kawano in the CyberCANOE, top hybrid visualization system.
UH Manoa student research assistant Noel Kawano in the CyberCANOE, top hybrid visualization system.

**Link to video and sound (details below): http://bit.ly/2iuWFHx

  • You can now go under the sea, explore outer space and probe microscopic elements of the human body without leaving campus.
  • The 3-D, immersive possibilities are endless now that the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is home to the best hybrid visualization system in the world that combines immersive virtual reality with ultra-high-resolution display walls.
  • It’s called the Destiny-class CyberCANOE, which stands for cyber-enabled Collaboration Analysis Navigation and Observation Environment.
  • UH Mānoa Computer and Information Sciences Professor Jason Leigh is the system’s creator.
  • Leigh has involved students in the design and construction of the CyberCANOE with investment and partnership from the National Science Foundation and the UH Academy for Creative Media System.
  • With 256 megapixels, this cylindrical CyberCANOE is the ultimate tool for scientists and researchers to visualize big data at resolutions that are 100-times better than commercial 3-D displays.
  • Diameter is 16 feet and walls are eight-feet high
  • The Destiny-class cost about $250,000 to build and is actually the seventh and best CyberCANOE Leigh has built in Hawai‘i over the past couple of years.He’s involved students from day one with investment and partnership from the National Science Foundation and the UH Academy for Creative Media System.
  • On Oct. 28, the National Science Foundation tweeted: At 256 million pixels, the CyberCANOE at @UHManoa is the highest resolution #VR display in the world.
  • Up next, even better CyberCANOEs for UH’s Experimental Program to Support Competitive Research, or EPSCoR’s, fresh water sustainability research and for the UH Academy for Creative Media System at UH West O‘ahu.

**Link to video and sound: http://bit.ly/2iuWFHx

B-roll 1:05

0:00 – 0:21 3 shots - view from inside the CyberCANOE

0:21 – 0:32 3 shots – Prof. Jason Leigh and student conversing

0:32 – 0:42 2 shots - time-lapse of the building of CyberCANOE

0:42 – 0:56 3 shots - components of the CyberCANOE

0:56 – 1:05 2 shots - student inside the CyberCANOE

Sound

Jason Leigh, CyberCANOE creator, UH Mānoa

“I think it’s awesome. I built what was then the best system in the world back in 2012 while I was in Chicago. And so when I came to Hawai‘i I figured I just can’t repeat what I did before, I had to do something better. And this is indeed something better.” (:14)

“Just as we continue to build higher resolution instruments for looking at the stars, for looking in the earth, this is the same kind of thing.” (:08)

Noel Kawano, engineering graduate student, UH Mānoa

“I know every little bolt, every little nut and screw. There’s like a thousand pieces. I know every little detail of it.” (:07)

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