Section: New Software and Platforms

WILDER Platform

Participants : Michel Beaudouin-Lafon [correspondant] , Olivier Chapuis, Cédric Fleury, Olivier Gladin, Rémi Hellequin, Stéphane Huot, Amani Kooli, Monireh Sanaei, Gabriel Tezier, Jonathan Thorpe.

WILDER is InSitu's second experimental ultra-high-resolution interactive environment, following up on the WILD platform developed since 2009 [2] (Figure 1 ). It features a wall-sized display with seventy-five 20" LCD screens, i.e. a 5m50 x 1m80 (18' x 6') wall displaying 14 400 x 4 800 = 69 million pixels, powered by a 10-computer cluster and two front-end computers. The platform also features a camera-based motion tracking system supporting interaction with the wall as well as within the surrounding space, a multitouch frame making the entire wall-sized display touch sensitive and various mobile devices. WILDER is part of the DIGISCOPE Equipment of Excellence and, in combination with WILD and the other DIGISCOPE rooms, provides a unique experimental environment for collaborative interaction. In addition to using WILD and WILDER for our research, we have also developed software architectures and toolkits that enable developers to run applications on such multi-device, cluster-based systems.

Figure 1. The WILDER platform.