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.

SyGlass

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syGlass is a volume visualization tool that runs on SteamVR on MS-Windows computers. (Though it was originally developed for CAVE-VR on Linux.)

syGlass Presentations

Keyboard Commands

Normally, all interaction would happen inside VR, but before entering VR mode, there is a desktop viewer, which can be used to do some interfacing:

syGlass Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard/Mouse Input Affect
Enter Reset
arrows translate data to/from & left/right
WASD (same as arrows)
EQ translate data up/down
numpad arrows + 1/7 rotate data around it's origin (from data perspective)
Ctrl Toggle menu on desktop view
n Toggle view of external world (vs. black background)
o Toggle demo mode (prevents menu availability, etc.)
v Toggle on-screen (desktop) interface
F5 Show data outline (temporarily)
F6 Start rotating data about X-axis (user perspective)
F7 Start rotating data about side-to-side-axis (user perspective)
F8 Start rotating data about vertical-axis (user perspective)
F9 Stop data rotation
Left-mouse Rotate around user (with mouse movement)
Right-mouse Rotate around data from user perspective (with mouse movement)
Scroll-wheel Move data nearer and farther from viewpoint
Right-Shift w/ wheel & Right-mouse manipulate clipping plane (first press resets)

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