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HKU Faculty of Engineering creates innovative “imseCAVE”
a high performance, low cost, virtual environment for industrial applications and training

06 Jul 2015

The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE) of the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has successfully created a truly immersive virtual environment – the imseCAVE – through the integration and innovative customization of state-of-the-art engineering and technologies including virtual and augmented reality, sensor network, distributed computing, big-data processing and management.

This low cost, high performance generic Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) can be readily applied in industrial, commercial and non-commercial use. It is a fully immersive and interactive visualization system that provides extremely vivid stereoscopic views of an unlimited virtual world within a small room of a few square metres.

The research group is led by Dr. Henry Lau from the HKU Department of IMSE. Over the past decade, the team has created the innovations for interactive visualization and simulations of complex systems and operations. The system can be used for training and skill evaluation, and act as a tool for complex system analysis and design such as in the development of products, buildings, and other facilities with real life collaborative operations at Cathay Pacific Services Limited (CPSL) and Hong Kong Police Force.

A media interview will be held on July 8, 2015 (this Wednesday) to introduce key features of the research and its applications.

Details of the media interview are as follows:

Date: July 8, 2015 (this Wednesday)

Time: 10:45am to 1:00pm

Venue: Room 106, 1/F, Haking Wong Building, The University of Hong Kong (MTR HKU Station Exit A2)

Media enquiries:

Communications and Public Affairs Office Ms Rhea Leung (tel: 2857 8555 / 9022 7446, email: rhea.leung@hku.hk) or Faculty of Engineering Miss Esther Lau (tel: 2859 1924 / 6223 7592 email: estherlc@hku.hk).