This technology is designed to create a better viewing experience invariousenvironments ranging from dim indoor lighting to the brightest outdoor sunlight.
It provides tours of the facility for interested members of the public and conduct lectures, outreach programs and demonstrations for the local community to show them how to grow food invarious urban environments.
All of these enhancements are built into a smaller, lighter and more rugged tablet that's designed to meet the needs of variousenvironmentsin which local merchants conduct business.
The team is working with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), which has developed a software package for quickly creating large-scale virtual environmentsin particular cities, invarious degrees of detail, called CityEngine.