Immersive VR for scientific visualization: a progress report

Author

Van Dam, Andries ; Forsberg, Andrew S. ; Laidlaw, David H. ; LaViola, Joseph J., Jr. ; Simpson, Rosemary M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA

Volume

20

Issue

6

fYear

2000

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) has the potential to be a powerful tool for the visualization of burgeoning scientific data sets and models. We sketch a research agenda for the hardware and software technology underlying IVR for scientific visualization. In contrast to Brooks´ (1999) excellent survey which reported on the state of IVR and provided concrete examples of its production use, this article is somewhat speculative. It does not present solutions but rather a progress report, a hope, and a call to action, to help scientists cope with a major crisis that threatens to impede their progress

Keywords

data visualisation; natural sciences computing; user interfaces; virtual reality; data models; immersive virtual reality; scientific data sets; scientific visualization; Computational modeling; Data visualization; Feedback; Geometry; Graphics; Haptic interfaces; Mice; Speech; Three dimensional displays; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.888006

Filename

888006