Interactive Realities Lab

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

• 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.

• 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.

• DIVAARS: The Dismounted Infantry Virtual After Action Review System, funded by the Army Research Institute, is our first AAR system and is focused on dismounted infantry in MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) scenarios.