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.
Bootcamp UWyo
Laramie Immersive Visualization Bootcamp
The second immersive visualization bootcamp was held in Laramie Wyoming on the
University of Wyoming campus on June 12 - 14, 2013.
There was another capacity crowd with considerable interaction among participants and speakers. We highly appreciate the team at the Wyoming School of Energy Resources who provided the facilities and hosted the lunch and evening gatherings.
(We held our first bootcamp in Indianapolis.)
Immersive visualization makes use of advanced display technologies such as the SER CAVE at the University of Wyoming to enhance one's ability to see relationships among data representations. The goal of this series of bootcamps is to empower operators and users of immersive (aka virtual reality) visualization facilities with software tools that will enable them to visualize data in a variety of formats using their advanced displays. Much of the software discussed is open-source to enable participants to freely incorporate packages into their workflow suite.
Sponsors of the bootcamp were Indiana University Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL), Idaho National Laboratory Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), University of Wyoming and Kitware, Inc.
Talks
| Wednesday Afternoon | |
|---|---|
| Talk | Presenter |
| Introduction | Sherman |
| The Vrui VR library | Sherman |
| Toirt Samhaligh volume renderer | Sherman |
| LidarViewer point cloud renderer | Sherman |
| Vrui configuration | Sherman |
| Thursday Morning | |
| Talk | Presenter |
| Visual Immeraction: Interaction Design and Input Considerations for Immersive Visualizations | Banic |
| VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics) | Sherman |
| ML2VR (Matlab to VR) | Sherman |
| Thursday Afternoon | |
| Talk | Presenter |
| ParaView VR Plugin | Shetty |
| Technology demonstrations | 3D Interaction and Agents (3DIA) Research Lab |
| Mechdyne Software Products | Scharver |
| Friday Morning | |
| Talk | Presenter |
| Immserive Vis Workflow at Idaho National Lab | Whiting |
| IQ-station (low-cost VR) | Sherman |
| Immersive Vis community | Sherman |
3DIA research lab demonstrations
| Presentation |
|---|
| Wide-Area Tracked HMD Immersive Visualization Environment |
| Mobile-Based Navigation for Immersive Visualizations |
| BCI-Based Navigation for Virtual Environments |
| Classic Pit Demo |
Participants
We had another capacity crowd at the Laramie bootcamp
| Participant | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Amy Banic | University of Wyoming |
| Jeff Braun | Montana Tech |
| Eric Carlson | University of Alabama |
| Stephen Cartwright | University of Calgary |
| Josh Clark | Mechdyne Corporation |
| Jacob Freiberg | Simon Fraser University |
| Nicholas Graf | University of Wyoming / WyGISC |
| Shane Grover | Idaho National Laboratory |
| Jeff Hamerlinck | University of Wyoming / WyGISC |
| David Hobbs | Montana Tech/U. of Montana |
| Paddington Hodza | University of Wyoming / WyGISC |
| Shawn Lanning | University of Wyoming / WyGISC |
| April Lewis | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| John McInroy | University of Wyoming |
| Christopher Scharver | Mechdyne Corporation |
| Mikhail Shashkov | University of California - Davis |
| William Sherman | Indiana University AVL |
| Nikhil Shetty | Kitware Inc. |
| Derrick Turner | Brigham Young University |
| Michael Urynowicz | University of Wyoming |
| Andreas Werner | Advanced Realtime Tracking GmbH |
| Eric Whiting | Idaho National Laboratory CAES |
| Khodabakhsh Zabihi | University of Wyoming |
Gallery
