Experiencing Infrastructures Sharing for International Research Activities

The Visionair Project aims at the creation of a distributed infrastructure of technological facilities in Europe as a visible, attractive entry point towards research and experimentation in high level visualisation, virtual reality and augmented reality fields, for hosting international researchers and giving them the opportunity of trying and practicing their ideas and their research topics. The infrastructure provides access to an extensive pool of visualisation services, including visualisation environments, leading visualisation software packages, postprocessing resources and collaboration environments. ITIA-CNR, as partner of the Visionair Project, is providing access to its infrastructure, namely VirtualFactory, it has already hosted transnational accesses in its facilities and this paper presents them as an example of experiences that can be done by accessing the common infrastructure for research of Visionair. Categories and Subject Descriptions: I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and RealismVirtual Reality; J.5 [Arts and Humanities]: Architecture; K.3.1 [Computers and Education]: Computer Uses in Education-Computer-Assisted Instruction.