{"id":53345,"date":"2016-11-26T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=53345"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:07:30","slug":"worlds-best-hybrid-visualization-system-up-and-running-at-uh-manoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/26\/worlds-best-hybrid-visualization-system-up-and-running-at-uh-manoa\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s best hybrid visualization system up and running at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5p4f0vkR3A?showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>You can now go under the sea, explore outer space and probe microscopic elements of the human body without leaving campus. The <abbr title=\"three dimensional\">3D<\/abbr>, immersive possibilities are endless now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> is home to the best hybrid visualization system in the world that combines immersive virtual reality with ultra-high-resolution display walls.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/uhmlavalab\/CyberCANOE\/wiki\">Destiny-class CyberCANOE<\/a>, which stands for cyber-enabled Collaboration Analysis Navigation and Observation Environment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.hawaii.edu\/\">Computer and Information Science<\/a> Professor <strong>Jason Leigh<\/strong> is the system&#8217;s creator. He says he built what was the best system in the world in 2012 and was motivated to build something better when he moved to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> has a lot of amazing scientists which have a lot of data available,&rdquo; Leigh said. &ldquo;Because we have so much resolution on Destiny and we have so much computing power to drive that, we have a real cool opportunity, a unique opportunity, to visualize data with the best lens possible, to look at this information in much deeper ways than we could have before.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With 256 megapixels, this CyberCANOE is the ultimate tool for scientists and researchers to visualize big data at resolutions that are 100-times better than commercial <abbr>3D<\/abbr> displays.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interested in developing software for the Destiny-class CyberCANOE?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/uhmlavalab\/CyberCANOE\/wiki\">Get started at the CyberCANOE website.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Destiny-class cost about $250,000 to build and is actually the seventh and best CyberCANOE Leigh has built in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> over the past couple of years. He&#8217;s involved students from day one with investment and partnership from the National Science Foundation and the <a href=\"http:\/\/acmsystem.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Academy for Creative Media System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Academy for Creative Media System Director <strong>Chris Lee<\/strong> said, &ldquo;We just found ourselves really sympatico about how we saw technology changing both the students and the university and ultimately <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s economy in the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Up next, even better CyberCANOEs for <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/epscor\/\">Experimental Program to Support Competitive Research<\/a>, or EPSCoR&#8217;s, fresh water sustainability research and for the <a href=\"http:\/\/acmsystem.hawaii.edu\/campus\/uh-west-oahu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Academy for Creative Media System at West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh said, &ldquo;Just as we continue to build higher resolution instruments for looking at the stars, for looking at the earth, this is the same kind of thing.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>You could say Leigh and his students are boldly going where no one has gone before and they are encouraging the research community to join them for a ride in the latest, greatest CyberCANOE.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-ics-cyberCANOE-1.jpg\" alt=\"CyberCANOE as it was being built\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-ics-cyberCANOE-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-ics-cyberCANOE-1-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Destiny-class CyberCANOE enables visualization, analysis, navigation and observation of big data in an immersive 3D environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":53366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[112,308,541,1183,620,521,484,9,59,56],"class_list":["post-53345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-academy-for-creative-media","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-computer-science","tag-cybercanoe","tag-data-visualization","tag-epscor","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-ics-cyberCANOE-1f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53345"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124699,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53345\/revisions\/124699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}