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.

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


This site is a place where the community of users of lower-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. Unfortunately, the era of COTS 3D-TVs has waned, and so this method (IQ-stations) is no longer practical.

However, the information about the applications is still pertinent, including instructions on how to use the Vrui system to operate HTC Vive displays on Linux systems.

Hardware

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:

In addition to documenting the bootcamps here, we also gave a presentation at SuperComputing 2013:

Integration Software

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

VR Applications

VR Tools

Other Applications

Related Publications