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RAY
IDASZAK is the Director of Visualization and Collaborative Environments
at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) - a multidisciplinary
institute bridging academe, commerce and society to enrich and
empower human potential. At RENCI Ray’s team has helped design
and deploy over 20 distributed interconnected visualization
and collaboration environments and now promotes the multi-institutional
visualization projects to exploit these facilities. Prior to
joining RENCI, for twelve years Ray was Chief Technology Officer,
co-founder and served on the board of directors of Alternate
Realities Corporation / Elumens where the products his team
brought to market earned several industry awards. He was the
first technical staff member of the NCSA Visualization Group
and later formed the initial MCNC Visualization Group where
he also co-founded the International AVS Center. His work includes
appearances in National Geographic, Time Magazine, NOVA and
The Infinite Voyage PBS shows, Britannica's Science and Future,
Scientific American, Discover, and has been featured eleven
times as cover images for various journals and books. Ray holds
a Computer Science Engineering degree from the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has ten patents. |
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Simulating
the Overview Effect through advanced virtual environments
offers a glimpse of an introduction towards expanding our
awareness that we are part of a larger reality. Driven by
the ever increasing capabilities of interactive media, immersive
display technologies, computer-generated special effects,
3D graphics hardware, and various sensory apparatus, virtual
simulated environments take us seamlessly from this reality
to another alternate reality. But from the perspective of
our consciousness what differentiates the simulated experience
from the real experience? A hint is our lifetime of learned
expectations. The Overview Effect is a new type reality…an
event that as we experience it we know to be real yet a seemingly
surrealistic experience that goes profoundly beyond our lifetime
of learned expectations. Simulating the Overview Effect is
humankind’s runway to the actual experience enabling all of
us – as collective stewards of planet earth – to understand
more holistically not only our place in the created universe,
but our role as well.
-- Ray Idaszak
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