Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Victorian Premier John Brumby were among those who watched the first showing of the next generation ultra-resolution visualisation being carried over a super-broadband link between Melbourne Uni and the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
The demonstration was an initiative of the high-profile Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD).
The platform is set to revolutionise the way Australia interacts with the rest of the world, allowing real-time, interactive collaboration across the globe, and combining high-definition video and audio with the sharing of ultra-resolution visualisations.
In the last two months, the University of Melbourne has constructed a massive 96 million pixel ‘OptIPortal’ visualisation wall – known affectionately as the ‘OzIPortal’ – constructed from 24 x 30 inch LCD screens. (By comparison, a standard PC can show about 1-2 million pixels.)
Unique in Australia, the OptIPortal facility brings together two individual concepts – ultra-resolution visualisation walls and high definition video collaboration technologies creating a powerful new tool enabling collaborative research across great distances in real time with participants visually exploring massive data sets.
Bringing the OptIPortal and gigabit-per-second super-broadband networking together is the cutting-edge expertise of two of the world’s leading telecommunications research units – the University of Melbourne School of Engineering’s Centre for Ultra Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), which is a partnership between UCSD/University of California Irvine.
“This technology is a powerful communication tool which will push new boundaries for higher education and research in Australia,” said Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis.
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