Chapter: Virtual Reality as a Surrogate Sensory Environment
Theodore W. Hall, Mojtaba Navvab, Eric Maslowski, and Sean Petty have authored an invited chapter, “Virtual Reality as a Surrogate Sensory Environment,” for the book, Advances in Robotics and Virtual...
View ArticleTech Demo – Realistic “Spooky” Cellar with Physical Interactions
Spooksville, a haunting and dimly lit basement environment, was originally designed by Andrew Hamilton, optimized developed by the UM3D Lab, and brought into the MIDEN as an experiment in immersive...
View ArticleMigraine Brain – Quick Mapping of Brain Data
Through some innovative work done by Dr. Alexandre Dasilva and his team in the School of Dentistry, the UM3D Lab was presented with some exciting new data related to migraines and their effect on the...
View Article[ParaView] Basics of Volumetric Rendering (Video)
Volumetric rendering is a great way to visualize 3D data or anything with layers of information. (MRI, CT, etc.) This tutorial shows how to plot volumetric data and change the colors of the plot in...
View Article[VisIt] Basics of Volumetric Rendering (Video)
Volumetric rendering is a great way to visualize 3D data or anything with layers of information. (MRI, CT, etc.) This tutorial shows how to plot volumetric data, change its attributes, colors, and...
View ArticleSailboat Environment Creates Interactions Even Pirates Would Envy*
This Sailboat environment, similar to the Tea House, demonstrates the capabilities of real-time graphics in an immersive simulation. In this environment, the user can walk around the wave-ridden boat...
View ArticleOut of Body In Molly Dierks Art
Molly Dierks, as an MFA candidate at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, used resources at the UM3D Lab to create an installation peice called “Postmodern Venus.” Shawn O’Grady scanned her...
View ArticleMassive Lighting in Sponza to Develop Global Illumination
Real light is a complicated phenomenon that not only acts upon objects, but interacts with them–light bounces off an object and to another object so that an entire scene is implicated. In graphical...
View ArticleGIS Data As Seen In The (Immersive) Envirnoment
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are used for mapping and analysis of data pertaining to geographic locations. The location data may consist of vectors, rasters, or points. Vector data are...
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