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.
Publication Sherman 2013
Immersive Visualization Bootcamps: sharing expertise, building community
Published: SuperComputing 2013
Authors:
- William R. Sherman
- Patrick O'Leary
- Eric A. Wernert
Link to Paper: online access
Abstract
A major issue concerning high-end visualization technologies isthat they are frequently not embraced by the researchers for whomsuch systems were expected to benefit. Considerable resources areoften brought to bear to stand-up a large new visualization display,but often without adequate training to help those who are now ex-pected to make the system useful for their local science community.Officials who commit to secure a new system generally do so be-cause they have seen demonstrations of the best software revealingits potential. But what they don’t see is the hours of training andexperience that were needed to make the system work well, and theadditional time demand to engage with the science community. Tohelp new members of the high-end visualization community estab-lish themselves and become more rapidly effective, we organizedand hosted a pair of condensed seminars (bootcamps) that simul-taneously introduce participants with best-of-class software and in-troduce them to both experienced and other new members of thecommunity. The software applications are presented not as demos,but as tools, with explanations and opportunities for learning howto genuinely use them. The community continues beyond the boot-camps with shared experiences and documentation via a web-hub.