A Virtual-Environment Room Allows Researchers to Walk Through Their Data

The facility is the centerpiece of a new technology center at Brown U.

"Cube," says Andrew Forsberg, and a simple cube appears, floating just beyond the reach of two visitors he's brought into a small, bright, line-drawing room at Brown University here. The room has a three-dimensional, line-drawing table, line-drawing chairs, even line-drawing pictures on the walls -- it's like standing inside a 1950s cartoon, except that three live

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