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.

Difference between revisions of "Main Page"

From IQ-Station Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
 
m (Added a link to create a new ART SMARTTRACK page)
 
(43 intermediate revisions by 6 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
<big>'''MediaWiki has been successfully installed.'''</big>
{{TOCright}}
<BIG>'''Welcome to the IQ-Station Wiki for commodity-based low-cost VR'''</BIG>
 
 
This site is a place where the community of users of midrange-cost
virtual reality displays can congregate and share information.
In the past, our focus was on systems primarily constructed from
Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components for a quality VR experience
around the $10,000 to $15,000 price range.  But that was during the
era of COTS 3D-TVs, and before COTS HMDs.
 
Now however, the era of 3D-TVs has waned, but by replacing them with
not-terribly-expensive short-throw projectors, and by using super-low-cost
tracking from consumer HMD technology, we can still build larger fishtank-style
VR displays (IQ-stations) for something reasonable &mdash; ~$7,000.
 
The software discussed here (VR libraries and applications) is often useful for
both consumer HMDs, and these midrange-cost IQ-stations, as well as full-sized
CAVE VR systems, and thus can be useful for VR pracitioners of the full range
of system types and costs.  (Though primarily oriented to those interested
in immersive visualization &mdash; scientific visualization in VR.)
 
== Integration Software ==
 
Most IQ-station systems presently in operation run VR applications built
on one of two VR integration libraries:
* [[Vrui]]
* [[FreeVR]]
 
== VR Applications ==
* [http://immersivevis.com/2010/toirt-samhlaigh-volume-visualization/ Toirt Samhlaigh] &mdash; A 3D volume visualiation tool
* [http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/LiDAR LidarViewer] &mdash; A point-cloud visualization tool
* [[CQ3A]] &mdash; A world exploration application (with game-like worlds)
* [[ImmersiveParaView | Immersive ParaView]] &mdash; The general-purpose ParaView sci-vis tool in VR
** [[ParaView_Tips | ParaView Tips]]
* [[VMD]] &mdash; Visual Molecular Dynamics
* [[ML2VR]] &mdash; Matlab to VR
 
== VR Tools ==
* [[VRPN]] &mdash; Virtual Reality Peripheral Network tool for aggregating data from input devices
* [[ViveLighthouse]] &mdash; Accessing Vive Lighthouse tracking on Linux
** [[LibSurvive]] &mdash; Building the LibSurvive library for Lighthouse tracking on Linux
* [[Monado]] &mdash; Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux
* [[OpenXR]] &mdash; Building OpenXR on Linux
 
==Visuallization Applications==
* [[BuildingVTK]] (on MS-Windows)
* [[BuildingParaView]] (on MS-Windows)
* [[BuildingANARI]] (on Linux)
 
== Other Applications ==
* [http://bino3d.org/ Bino] &mdash; stereoscopic movie player
* XVS &mdash; John Stone's ''stereoscopic image viewer''
 
== NIST Portable-VR ==
* [[Portable_VR_Setup | Portable-VR Setup]] &mdash; modern IQ-station w/ short-throw projector
 
== Hardware (old) ==
 
The basic components of an IQ-station are:
* [[3D_Displays | 3DTV Displays]] (and [[3D_Glasses | 3D glasses]])
* [[Tracking_Systems | Tracking Systems]]
** [[ART SMARTTRACK]]
* [[Input_Devices | Input Devices]]
* [[Computers]]
** [[Virtual_Machines | Virtual Machines]]
<!--* [[Mounting | Mounting & Furniture]]-->
<!--We also maintain a [[PartsList | Detailed Parts List]] as part of the community shared resource.-->
 
== Community ==
 
Part of our community building efforts include bootcamps on Immersive Visualization.
Thus far, we have hosted three successful events:
* [[Bootcamp_IUPUI | Bootcamp in Indianapolis]] held March 25-27, 2013
* [[Bootcamp_UWyo | Bootcamp in Laramie]] held June 12-14, 2013
* [[Bootcamp_UALR | Bootcamp in Little Rock]] held October 22-24, 2014
* [[Bootcamp_INL | Bootcamp in Idaho Falls]] held October 20-21, 2016
 
== Related Publications ==
* [[Publication_Sherman_2010 | '''[Sherman 2010]''' ''IQ-Station: A Low Cost Portable Immersive Environment'']]
* [[Publication_Sherman_2013 | '''[Sherman 2013]''' ''Immersive Visualization Bootcamps: sharing expertise, building community'']]
 
 
<!--
__________________________
== Getting started ==


Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.


== Getting started ==


* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]
* [http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]
-->

Latest revision as of 23:40, 29 January 2024

Welcome to the IQ-Station Wiki for commodity-based low-cost VR


This site is a place where the community of users of midrange-cost virtual reality displays can congregate and share information. In the past, our focus was on systems primarily constructed from Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components for a quality VR experience around the $10,000 to $15,000 price range. But that was during the era of COTS 3D-TVs, and before COTS HMDs.

Now however, the era of 3D-TVs has waned, but by replacing them with not-terribly-expensive short-throw projectors, and by using super-low-cost tracking from consumer HMD technology, we can still build larger fishtank-style VR displays (IQ-stations) for something reasonable — ~$7,000.

The software discussed here (VR libraries and applications) is often useful for both consumer HMDs, and these midrange-cost IQ-stations, as well as full-sized CAVE VR systems, and thus can be useful for VR pracitioners of the full range of system types and costs. (Though primarily oriented to those interested in immersive visualization — scientific visualization in VR.)

Integration Software

Most IQ-station systems presently in operation run VR applications built on one of two VR integration libraries:

VR Applications

VR Tools

  • VRPN — Virtual Reality Peripheral Network tool for aggregating data from input devices
  • ViveLighthouse — Accessing Vive Lighthouse tracking on Linux
    • LibSurvive — Building the LibSurvive library for Lighthouse tracking on Linux
  • Monado — Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux
  • OpenXR — Building OpenXR on Linux

Visuallization Applications

Other Applications

  • Bino — stereoscopic movie player
  • XVS — John Stone's stereoscopic image viewer

NIST Portable-VR

Hardware (old)

The basic components of an IQ-station are:

Community

Part of our community building efforts include bootcamps on Immersive Visualization. Thus far, we have hosted three successful events:

Related Publications


Retrieved from "http://wiki.iq-station.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=346"