Applications of immersive 3D visualization lab

Abstract

The paper presents Immersive 3D Visualization Lab (at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland) and its applications prepared after its launch in December 2014. The main device of the lab is a virtual reality cubic cave with six screen-walls, where a person can navigate in virtual space using different controllers. The most sophisticated controller is a freely rotating transparent sphere, supported on rollers and equipped with a motion tracking system (something like an omnidirectional hamster wheel). A person's walking motion causes the sphere to revolve and triggers changes in the computer generated 3D images on VR cave screens surrounding the sphere, thus creating an illusion of motion. The projection system is supplemented with a spatial sound generation system.