Virtual Reality Pioneer Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira Joins Sensics Advisory Board
Co-inventor of CAVE™ to provide HMD performance leader with market and technical expertise
Baltimore, MD — Feb 6th, 2007 – Sensics, the panoramic head-mounted display (HMD) company, announced today that Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Executive Director and Chief Scientist at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) has agreed to join the company’s advisory board.
"The piSight HMD by Sensics is one of the few exciting innovations for immersive environments that we have seen in the last decade", says Dr. Cruz-Neira, co-inventor of the CAVE system and a widely-regarded pioneer in virtual reality. "I am pleased to join the advisory board at this exciting time of growth for Sensics, and contribute from my expertise to the success of the company."
Dr. Carolina Cruz is the Executive Director and Chief Scientist at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) and holds an Endowed Professorship in the Computer Engineering department of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is also one of the founders of Infiscape Corporation and is its current VP for Business Development. Until March 2006, Dr. Cruz was the Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering and a Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department. From 1999 to 2005, she was the Associate Director and co-founder of the Virtual Reality Applications Center at Iowa State University (ISU). In 2002, she co-founded and co-directed the Human-Computer Interaction graduate program at ISU. Many of her former students are now virtual reality (VR) and interactive systems pioneers at places such as Purdue University, Navtech, Electronic Arts, Disney, Deere & Company, Sony Pictures, and Boeing. Dr. Cruz-Neira's work in VR started with her Ph.D. dissertation, which was the design and development of the CAVE™ Virtual Reality Environment, the CAVE™ Library software specifications and implementation, and preliminary research on CAVE™-Supercomputing integration. Since then, her research has been driven by providing applicability and simplicity to VR technology focusing on software engineering for VR, applications of VR technology in science, engineering, and art, as well as usability studies of practical virtual environments. In 1997, she was featured by Business Week magazine as a "rising research star" in the new generation of computer science pioneers. In March of 2000, Dr. Cruz received the Iowa State Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Research. In June 2001, she received the Boeing A.D. Welliver Award. In 2002, she was named Eminent Engineer by the Tau Beta Pi Honors Society. In 2003, she was inducted as a Computer Graphics Pioneer by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization.
Yuval Boger, Chief Executive Officer at Sensics, said, "We welcome Dr. Cruz-Neira to our Advisory Board. She is a leader in virtual reality technologies and in applying them to solving real-world business problems. Her expertise will give Sensics important insight as we continue to expand our customer base and demonstrate the dramatic benefits delivered by HMDs with wide field of view and high resolution."
"CAVE" is a registered trademark of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
About Sensics
Sensics, Inc., offers professional-quality personal displays with panoramic field of view and high resolution, providing stunning image quality, unmatched immersion and realism. These breakthrough immersive displays are delivered either as lightweight, stereoscopic head-mounted displays, or as ultra-light display modules suitable for OEM/ODM use.. Unlike other products that feature narrow field of view, limited resolution or both, Sensics delivers products combining panoramic field of view and high definition displays. Dozens of upgradeable models are offered, designed to meet a wide range of performance and budget specifications. Sensics products are used worldwide to enable new and improved virtual reality applications for training, virtual prototyping, visualization and remote presence. For additional information, visit http://www.sensics.com
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