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.
CalVR
COVISE (with OpenCOVER) is an immersive visualization tool suite from the Visualization team at the Qualcomm Institute (part of CalIT2).
We do not yet have much familiarity in installing and running CalVR, so presently we rely on the web-pages provided by QI/CalIT2 Scientific Visualization Lab:
- CalVR Main Wiki Entry
- CalVR Support (Wiki page)
- CalIT2 Immersive Visualization Lab (Wiki page)
- Immersive Visualization Center - Launch Event (YouTube video)