Immersive Visualization / IQ-Station Wiki
This site hosts information on virtual reality systems that are geared toward scientific visualization, and as such often toward VR on Linux-based systems. Thus, pages here cover various software (and sometimes hardware) technologies that enable virtual reality operation on Linux.
The original IQ-station effort was to create low-cost (for the time) VR systems making use of 3DTV displays to produce CAVE/Fishtank-style VR displays. That effort pre-dated the rise of the consumer HMD VR systems, however, the realm of midrange-cost large-fishtank systems is still important, and has transitioned from 3DTV-based systems to short-throw projectors.
Main Page
Welcome to the IQ-Station Wiki for commodity-based low-cost VR</BIG[>
This site is a place where the community of users of lower-cost
virtual reality displays can congregate and share information.
Presently these are systems primarily constructed from
Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components for a quality VR experience
around the $10,000 to $15,000 price range.
Hardware
The basic components of an IQ-station are:
Community
Part of our community building efforts includes bootcamps on Immersive Visualization. Thus far, we have hosted two successful events:
- Bootcamp in Indianapolis held March 25-27, 2013
- Bootcamp in Laramie held June 12-14, 2013
Additional bootcamps for 2014 are under consideration.
Integration Software
Most IQ-station systems presently in operation run VR applications built on one of two VR integration libraries:
VR Applications
- Toirt Samhlaigh
- LidarViewer
- CQ3A
- Immersive ParaView
- VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics)
- ML2VR (Matlab to VR)
Other Applications
- Bino stereoscopic movie player
- XVS (John Stone's stereoscopic image viewer)
Related Publications