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News 2001 - 2004
| Supercomputing 2004 |
November 8-11, 2004 |
| Announcement! - We will be showing a VisBox in the NCHC booth (#103) at Supercomputing 2004 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from November 8-11. The demo will feature 3D stereo visualizations developed by researchers at NCHC and from researchers at the Enabling Technology Lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. | |
| VisDuoTM installed at Valparaiso |
August 6, 2004 |
| A VisDuoTM was installed in a classroom at the College of Engineering at Valparaiso University. The Valparaiso Scientific Visualization Lab (SVL), headed by Prof. Jeffrey Will, is developing interactive 3D stereo visualizations for teaching complex topics in undergraduate education. | |
| VIZCAN becomes a Canadian Reseller |
July 22, 2004 |
| Canadian based VIZCAN Systems will resell Visbox products in Canada. VIZCAN Systems provides services and technology in the field of Advanced Visualization. | |
| Inition becomes a European Reseller |
July 13, 2004 |
| UK based Inition will resell Visbox products in Europe. Inition is an independent hardware supplier with over 10 years of experience using 3D-related hardware. | |
| IEEE VR 2004 |
March 27-31, 2004 |
| Visbox's Paul Rajlich will be attending the "VR for Public Consumption" workshop at IEEE VR 2004 in Chicago. | |
| VisBox-X2TM installed at Valparaiso |
March 10, 2004 |
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A VisBox-X2TM was installed in the College of Engineering at Valparaiso University.
The system features a large screen size (12'x9') and high
resolution projectors that output 1400x1050 (SXGA+) at over 5000 lumens each!
Valparaiso Scientific Visualization Lab (SVL) website | |
| VisBoxTM installed at University of Wisconsin |
February 10, 2004 |
| A VisBoxTM was installed at the Phillips Lab in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The VisBox was installed to replace an ImmersaDesk, providing a much bigger and brighter display. | |
| Supercomputing 2003 |
November 17-20, 2003 |
| Announcement! - We will be showing a VisWall-9x in the Microsoft booth at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona from November 17-20. The demo will show VRCO's vGeo software running on an HP Itanium2 cluster and displaying on the VisWall. | |
| VRCO Full Circle Solutions |
October 20, 2003 |
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VRCO announced Full Circle, a suite of affordable, turnkey visualization
solutions. VRCO will use Visbox products for all rear-projected displays.
Full Circle Webpage | |
| Internet2 meeting |
October 14, 2003 |
Announcement! - We will be showing a VisBox
at the Ruth Lily Health Education Center in connection with the the Internet2
meeting in Indianapolis on Tuesday, October 14.
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| Visbox partners with VRCO |
September 22, 2003 |
| Announcement! - Visbox, Inc, is partnering with VRCO, Inc, to provide turnkey visualization solutions at affordable prices. Customers will be able to purchase a bundled hardware and software solution along with training and services from a single vendor. | |
| TechShow 2003 |
September 24, 2003 |
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Announcement! - We will be showing the VisBoxTM locally at techShow 2003 on
September 24, 2003. Stop by for a demo!
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| Visbox Inc at SIGGRAPH 2003 |
July 29-31, 2003 |
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Announcement! - We will be showing the VisBoxTM at SIGGRAPH 2003 in San Diego from
July 29-31, 2003. Stop by our booth (#2653) for a demo!
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| CGW |
July 2003 |
| The VisBoxTM appeared as a "SIGGRAPH exhibitor highlight" in the "Products" section of the July 2003 issue of Computer Graphics World. | |
| CISE |
July 2003 |
| An article about the VisBoxTM entitled "Visualizing the Future of Virtual Reality" appeared in the July/August 2003 issue of "Computing in Science and Engineering", a publication of the IEEE Computer Society. | |
| ClusterWorld 2003 |
June 24-26, 2003 |
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Visbox's Paul Rajlich was a speaker at ClusterWorld 2003 in San Jose. He gave a
talk on "Building and Using Tiled Display Walls."
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| REVITALISE workshop |
June 13, 2003 |
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A VisBox was shown at the REVITALISE workshop
on June 23 at NCSA in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois:
"The REVITALISE program focuses on educators in rural Illinois and North Carolina
with the goal of introducing technologies that will reduce teacher isolation and
stimulate virtual learning."
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| NWITimes |
June 13, 2003 |
| The Northwest Indiana Times ran an article entitled "Virtual learning" about how Valparaiso is using their VisBox for undergraduate education. | |
| VisBoxTM on display at Urbana Middle School |
May 13-24, 2003 |
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A VisBoxTM was on display at Urbana Middle School
from May 13 to May 24. Students participating in the VR Savvy
project showed the vr worlds
they had created with Shadowlight-Mirage to their classmates.
The News-Gazette (local paper) ran a front page article about the VisBoxTM
at the school:
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| PC GameWorld.com |
May 6, 2003 |
| PC GameWorld interviewed Visbox's Paul Rajlich about the VisBoxTM and the future of gaming. | |
| IEEE VR 2003 |
March 22-26, 2003 |
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Visbox's Paul Rajlich attended IEEE VR 2003 in Los Angeles. He participated
as a session chair and a reviewer for the
"Commodity Clusters for Virtual Reality" workshop at the conference.
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| VisBoxTM installed at Valparaiso University |
March 13, 2003 |
| A VisBoxTM was installed at the College of Engineering at Valparaiso University. | |
| VisBox Training Workshop |
February 15, 2003 |
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Visbox Inc hosted a full-day training workshop on developing applications for
the VisBox TM. The workshop was attended by graphics programmers from
Valparaiso University.
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| VisBoxTM on display at ISpace gallery |
January 2-19, 2003 |
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A VisBoxTM will be on display at the ISpace gallery
in Chicago from January 2 to January 19 as part of the exhibit titled "MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS - Designing the Chicago
Lakefront in an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment". The exhibit features architectural projects
from the graduate studio of Professor Joy Monice Malnar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Visitors are invited to experience the VisBoxTM and sketch their ideas using ShadowLight-Mirage.
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| VisBoxTM and VisWall-9XTM installed at UAB |
January 2, 2003 |
| A VisBoxTM and a VisWall-9XTM were installed at the Enabling Technology Lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. | |
| VisBoxTM installed at VIS |
December 16, 2002 |
| A VisBoxTM was installed at the Visualization and Interactive Spaces Lab in Indianapolis. The VIS lab is one of the Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University. | |
| VisWall-20xTM installed at CCR |
November 14, 2002 |
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A Viswall-20xTM was installed at the Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo. The
20 projector system provides a 15.7 Megapixel display (5120x3072) on a 11'x8' screen.
Link to CCR press release
MPEG Movie - a time-lapse movie of assembly (~9 MB).
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| TechShow 2002 |
September 4, 2002 |
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We showed the VisBox locally at TechShow 2002. Here are some pictures from the event.
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| News-Gazette |
September 3, 2002 |
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There was a feature about Visbox in the Workplace section of the News-Gazette (the local paper) on September 3.
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| SIGGRAPH 2002 |
July 22-26, 2002 |
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Announcement! - We will be attending SIGGRAPH 2002 in San Antonio,
Texas during the week of July 22-26. If you would like to meet with us
sometime that week, please let us know.
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| Nature article |
July 4th 2002 |
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There is a quote from Visbox's Paul Rajlich in an article about Data Visualization
in the July 4th issue of Nature.
Link to online version of the article
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| Hatch Online Article |
March 2002 |
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There's an article about Visbox in the March edition of the Hatch online
technology magazine.
Link to article
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| IEEE VR 2002 |
March 2002 |
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Visbox's Albert Khakshour was a panelist at the Immersive Projection Technology
Symposium during IEEE VR 2002. The panel
was titled "The Elephants and the Ants: Will Large Projectors Be Replaced By Many Small Ones?"
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| BBC series |
March 2002 |
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Visbox's Paul Rajlich and his VR work were featured in part 1 of the 3 part
BBC mini-series called The Virtual World.
The episode aired several times during the week of March 15-21 on BBC World
and was later shown on BBC Four as well.
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| Reseller Agreement |
Wed Jan 16, 2002 |
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Announcement! -
Visbox signs reseller
agreement with Conservative Computer Inc. ,
making the VisWall-16xTM product available on
the GSA schedule via Northrop Grumman IT.
Full Press Release
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| Ars Electronica Festival |
September 2001 |
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Visbox's Paul Rajlich was a speaker at the
Pixelspaces Symposium
during the Ars Electronica
Festival in Linz, Austria. Later in the week, the Big CAVE Shootout was held. More than
100 people showed up for a chance to play CAVE QUAKE II in the Ars Electronica CAVE.
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| Forbes ASAP article |
April 2001 |
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Forbes ASAP ran a short article on CAVE QUAKE II and Visbox in its
April 2001 issue.
Online version of the article
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| Gamespot Interview |
April 2001 |
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Gamespot interviewed Visbox's Paul Rajlich about CAVE QUAKE II and the
future of VR and gaming.
The interview generated more than 400,000 page views during the month,
making it one of the more popular stories on the online gaming site.
Link to interview
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