Interactive Realities Laboratory


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The IRL develops multiple software libraries to support virtual and augmented environments. These include:

 

  • ATLAS: The Adaptable Tool Library for Advanced Simulation is a library that encompasses many basic, low-level functions needed across multiple applications and libraries, and is used in VESS, GEMINI and SOCRATES.

 

  • VESS: The Virtual Environment Software Sandbox is a library for developing virtual and augmented environments. It includes various hardware drivers, motion models for connecting hardware with graphical components, and support for visual, aural, haptic and olfactory modalities.

 

  • GEMINI: The General-purpose, Environmental, Modular, Interactive Network Interface is a distributed environment architecture that supports multiple databases and multiple protocols for distributed, dynamic virtual worlds.

 

  • SOCRATES: The System of Object-based Components for Review and Assessment of Training Environment Scenarios is an engine for performing after action reviews. It forms the basis for our research in the AAR process.