What is the John-e-Box, and who uses it?
The John-e-Box is a portable, large-format, passive stereo display system developed by Indiana University's Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) in collaboration with the IU Department of Chemistry. It uses advances in commodity-grade components including small, bright, digital projectors; powerful PC processors and graphics cards; and flexible, open-source software tools. The increasing power, affordability, and usability of these systems allows technology groups to deploy these systems directly into labs and classrooms where they can have maximum impact and can be fully integrated with the university's outstanding infrastructure and resources for networking, computing, storage, and telecommunications. Thus, the John-e-Box is a key component of ongoing plans to deliver the capabilities of advanced visualization displays directly into the labs, classrooms, and studios of the university's researchers, educators, and artists, creating a technological bridge to high-end display installations like the Virtual Reality Theater.
