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VR-Arena control panel

The VR-Arena is run from a web-based control panel, VR-ARENA CONTROL:

This is the VR-Arena's Showmaster 2 panel; the older showmaster2.c.itn.liu.se address is gone — vr-panel.citn.liu.se is current. The panel also runs on the VR-arena iPad as a touch screen.

The panel has two tabs: Start for running a presentation, Advanced for projector-level control and status.

Start tab​

Start tab of the VR-Arena control panel

  • Start VR-Arena Presentation Mode — starts the three projectors, the WALL-TV and C-Play.
  • Shutdown VR-Arena Presentation Mode — shuts down the three projectors, the WALL-TV and C-Play.
  • C-Play — Laptop Input (OFF/ON) — routes a laptop signal into the C-Play pipeline.
  • C-Play — EVE Secondary Monitor (OFF/ON)
  • C-Play — EVE Primary Monitor (OFF/ON)
  • C-Play — EVE Primary Monitor (Small) (OFF/ON)
  • Volume — with Fade up / Fade down buttons.

Advanced tab​

Advanced tab of the VR-Arena control panel

  • Start VR-Arena Projectors / Shutdown VR-Arena Projectors — power the three Barco F90 projectors directly.
  • Start VR-Arena WALL TV / Shutdown VR-Arena WALL TV — the WALL-TV is the Samsung TV on the wall behind the audience, connected to EVE as a secondary monitor.
  • Per-projector status — State, Laser and Shutter for Projector 1 (Left), Projector 2 (Middle) and Projector 3 (Right).
  • Projector & Cluster Switching — selects the rendering mode:
    • BURN-E 3D — active stereo (also turns on the IR tracker and the 3D glasses)
    • BURN-E 2D — BURN-E in 2D
    • WALL-E 2D — 2D presentation from WALL-E
  • Reboot VR-ARENA Laptop NDI — reboots the laptop NDI unit in the VR-Arena rack.

C-Play​

When the VR-Arena is started with a laptop connected, C-Play starts on EVE with the laptop capture in the middle and a background image covering the display surface behind it, until content is loaded.

C-Play at VR-Arena startup — laptop capture in the middle, background image behind