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.
Immersive Vis Exp
Ideas for Immersive Visualization Experiment
For CS-598-SMC/SPH, Fall 2023
Concept
Scientific Visualization of 3D data has traditionally been performed on standard desktop computers with a keyboard and mouse interface. The advent of consumer virtual reality equipment provides an opportunity for more researchers to make use of this full 3D interface that can potentially enhance their ability to find salient features within a dataset.
We propose an experiment to test whether specific visualization tasks can be performed better using a VR interface as compared with a desktop computer interface.
Possible tasks
- find and count celluar organisms in a 3D confocal microscope scan
- find the strongest docking point between two molecules
References
- Gruchalla, Bruno-Lupo, 2019 -- Chapter 21: The Utility of Virtual Reality for Science and Engineering
- Gruchalla, 2003 -- IMMERSIVE WELL PATH PLANNING: THE ADDED VALUE OF INTERACTIVE IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION
- van Dam et al., 2000 -- Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report
- https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/029b.content.pdf Bryson, 1996 -- https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/029b.content.pd]