Transcript PPT - Larry Smarr

“The Forty Year Path
to the 2016 Filmatic Festival”
Opening Talk
Filmatic Festival
Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute
May 7, 2007
Dr. Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology;
Harry E. Gruber Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
Four Themes Led to the Filmatic Festival:
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Teaming Artists and Scientists with Technologists
Computer Graphics and Digital Cinema
Virtual Reality
Tele-Collaboration
Calit2’s Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
Traces Its Roots Back 40 Years
Artist and physicist Daniel Sandin (left) and computer scientist Tom DeFanti (right)
founded the UIC Circle Graphics Habitat
(later renamed the Electronic Visualization Laboratory) in 1973.
One of the First Computer Animations Used
in a Feature Film Was Created at the UIC Habitat
Lucasfilm Created Industrial Light and Magic and Pixar
Scene from Star Wars (1976) Lucasfilm
Creating Death Star on PDP-11 in Habitat
Larry Cuba used programming language written and developed by fellow
computer scientist Thomas DeFanti as a basis for producing
the 3-D computer graphics for Star Wars.
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2013/05/23/star-wars-connection
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) Was Founded in 1985
NCSA Integrated Scientific Visualization with Supercomputing
Wilhelmson, Arrott, et al.
Simulation and Visualization of a Severe Thunderstorm-Scale Tens of Kilometers
Thunderstorm Video Debuted at SIGGRAPH 1989
From Scientific Visualization of Supercomputing Science
to Movie Special Effects
1991
NCSA 1987
Stefen Fangmeier
1993
Computer Graphics
From NCSA to ILM
2000
1996
http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
http://movies.warnerbros.com/twister
www.jurassicpark.com; www.jamescameron.org
www.cinemenium.com/perfectstorm/
A Simulation of Shared Physical/Virtual Collaboration:
Using Analog Communications to Prototype the Digital Future
“What we really have to do is eliminate distance
between individuals who want to interact with
other people and with other computers.”
― Larry Smarr, Director, NCSA
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Boston
Televisualization:
– Telepresence
– Remote Interactive
Visual
Supercomputing
– Multi-disciplinary
Scientific Visualization
Boston
Illinois
“We’re using satellite technology…to demo
what It might be like to have high-speed
fiber-optic links between advanced
computers in two different geographic locations.”
― Al Gore, Senator
Chair, US Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space
SIGGRAPH 1989
Smarr, Haber, Cox
SIGGRAPH 1994
Introducing the CAVE Virtual Reality Room
“It’s the real start of humans being able to immerse themselves inside the
brains of computers―seeing what the computers are seeing.”
― Larry Smarr, Director,
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC
“See things you’ve never seen before.”
― Tom DeFanti, Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC
“Virtual prototyping of new products,
from small to large.”
Post-Euclidean Walkabout
George Francis, NCSA, UIUC
www.math.uiuc.edu/~gfrancis/
― Rick Stevens, Director, Math and Computer
Science Division, Argonne National Lab
General
Motors
Research
“Next year―SuperVROOM…Get rid of the Machine Farm and put gigabit
networks in place to talk to computers at remote sites―a whole new level
of interaction and communication.”
― Maxine Brown, Associate Director,
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC
www.evl.uic.edu/EVL/VROOM/HTML/OTHER/HomePage.html
UIC
Source: Maxine Brown
Caterpillar / NCSA: Distributed Virtual Reality
for Global-Scale Collaborative Prototyping
Real Time Linked Virtual Reality and Audio-Video
Between NCSA, Peoria, Houston, and Germany
1996
www.sv.vt.edu/future/vt-cave/apps/CatDistVR/DVR.html
Alliance 1997: Collaborative Video Production
via Tele-Immersion and Virtual Director
Alliance Project Linking CAVE, ImmersaDesk,
Power Wall, and Workstation
Alliance Application Technologies
Environmental Hydrology Team
UIC
Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSA Virtual Director Team
Glenn Wheless, Old Dominion Univ.
2005: Two New Calit2 Buildings Provide
New Laboratories for “Living in the Future”
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“Convergence” Laboratory Facilities
– Nanotech, BioMEMS, Chips, Radio, Photonics
– Virtual Reality, Digital Cinema, HDTV, Gaming
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~ 1000 Researchers in Two Buildings
– Linked via Dedicated Optical Networks
Preparing UC
for aIrvine
World in Which
Distance is Eliminated…
www.calit2.net
$100M From State for New Facilities
Calit2 Has Facilitated Deep Interactions
With the Digital Arts and Humanities on Both Campuses
“Researchers Look to Create
a Synthesis of Art and Science
for the 21st Century”
By John Markoff
NYTimes November 5, 2005
SPECFLIC 1.0 – A Speculative
Distributed Social Cinema by Adrienne Jenik
Calit2@UCI
eMedia Studio:
Interactive
Telepresence
Dance/Media
Performances
Ruth West, UCSD “Ecce Homology”
Calit2@UCSD Designed Three Experimental
New Media Arts Spaces into Atkinson Hall
New Media Arts Wing
Calit2@UCSD Multipurpose Room—
A “Black Box” Theatre Space
• 100-seat Reconfigurable Space
• Performances/Seminars
Calit2 3D Immersive StarCAVE OptIPortal:
Enables Exploration of Blended Reality
Connected at 50 Gb/s
to UCSD Campus Switch
30 HD
Projectors!
Passive Polarization-Optimized the
Polarization Separation
and Minimized Attenuation
15 Meyer Sound
Speakers +
Subwoofer
Source: Tom DeFanti, Greg Dawe, Calit2
Cluster with 30 Nvidia 5600 cards-60 GB Texture Memory
Maxine Brown and Tom DeFanti,
iGrid2005 Co-Chairs
Larry Smarr and Ramesh Rao, Calit2 Hosts
First Trans-Pacific Super High Definition Telepresence
Meeting Using Digital Cinema 4K Streams
Streaming 4K
with JPEG 2000
Compression
½ gigabit/sec
100 Times
the Resolution
of YouTube!
Keio University
President Anzai
UCSD
Chancellor Fox
Calit2@UCSD Auditorium
Lays
Technical
Basis for
Global
Digital
Cinema
Sony
NTT
SGI
First Tri-Continental Premier of
a Streamed 4K Feature Film With Global HD Discussion
August 2009
4K Film Director,
Beto Souza
Keio Univ., Japan
Source:
Sheldon Brown,
CRCA, Calit2
Calit2@UCSD
San Paulo, Brazil Auditorium
4K Transmission Over 10Gbps-4 HD Projections from One 4K Projector
Tele-Collaboration for Audio Post-Production
Realtime Picture & Sound Editing Synchronized Over IP
Skywalker Sound@Marin
Calit2@San Diego
Crossing Boundaries 2012Co-Taught Interdisciplinary Graduate Class
Co-Taught by Alan Burrett, Robert Castro, Lisa Porter,
Victoria Petrovich and Shahrokh Yadegari
Performances in Calit2 VROOM Dec 2012
27 graduate students, (playwrights, designers, directors, actors, musicians, filmmakers,
performance artists, stage managers, engineers, and theatre scholars)
Source: Shahrokh Yadegari, Dept. of Theatre and Dance
2004 Calit2 Professor of Arts and Humanities
Becoming Dragon-A Mixed Reality, Durational Performance
Combining Virtual Reality, Motion Capture, Second Life
365 hours, from December 1-17th, 2008
Source: Micha Cárdenas, CRCA, Calit2
Artist Dan Ambrosi Teams with Software Experts to
Create Dreamscapes-Sees His Art For the 1st Time at QI
April 2016
The WAVE (2013) ~$400,000
35 Megapixels/Eye $0.010/Pixel
WAVE Cluster
WAVE VR Display 7 High by 5 Wide HD
Panels
20x40Gbps
125,000 Cores (50 Nvidia 780s), 200TF
Collaboration Between EVL’s CAVE2 and
Calit2’s VROOM Over 10Gbps Optical Fiber
Calit2
EVL
Source: NTT Sponsored ON*VECTOR Workshop at Calit2 March 6, 2013
Qualcomm Institute
Has a Variety of Projects with HMD VR
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Oculus Rift for viewing
MR and CT scans in 3D
Using In-House Developed Direct Volume
Rendering Algorithm, Optimized for VR
VR Rock Climbing
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Drone Controlled by Head Motion
with Oculus Rift
Video (mono) Streamed Live to HMD
Source: Jurgen Schulze, Calit2’s QI
UC San Diego Undergraduate VR Laboratory
in Computer Science and Engineering Building
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~40 graphics Workstations with HMDs
Viewers for Smart Phones
Walk Around VR with HTC Vive
Two 80” 4k Displays
– Group VR Viewing
– Discussions, Tutoring
• Ready by Fall Quarter 2016
Why Would a Social Network Company
Buy a Consumer Virtual Reality Company?
"We're working on VR because
I think it's the next major
computing and communication platform
after phones,“
-Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO
July 1, 2015