The UITS Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) promotes and supports the innovative application of visual technologies to enhance research, education, creative activity, and community outreach missions at IU. We offer consulting on advanced media techniques; consulting and production for 3D printing, models, and environments; and resources for utilizing virtual and augmented reality.
Advanced Visualization Lab
Visualization Systems
AVL’s distributed systems include large-format, ultra-resolution displays for visualization and collaboration (IQ Walls) distributed across multiple campuses and departments, along with specialty display installations and a range of online software tools and services.
Largest curved, mobile CLED display in the world; located at the Cyberinfrastructure Building (CIB) in Bloomington.
An open, web-based service for creating and exhibiting collections of web-based media for viewing on IQ-Walls or personal systems.
Large format, ultra-high resolution, tiled video display systems located at IU Bloomington, IUPUI, IU East, IU Kokomo, IU Northwest, IU Southeast, and IU South Bend.
A 6-foot spherical display for presenting scientific and informational visualizations; located at the Cyberinfrastructure Building (CIB) in Bloomington.
Visualization consulting
We offer short-, medium-, and long-term consulting services for IU researchers, educators, and artists seeking to use advanced visualization techniques and technologies to enhance their work.
Applications and optimizations of existing scientific and information visualization tools, methods, and workflows.
Assistance with utilizing existing visualization displays or help in designing and acquiring your own system.
Virtual and augmented reality (xR) consulting
Utilize existing web services and workflows to create xR content in an efficient and sustainable manner.
Advanced imaging
AVL’s Advanced Imaging team provides services and expertise for specialized 2D media formats. Technologies and services cover the acquisition, processing, and presentation of advanced formats such as spherical 360, stereoscopic 3D, ultra-high resolution, high dynamic range, and multi-view imaging.
Acquire spherical 360 or stereoscopic 3D images or video from real or synthetic worlds for use in virtual tours and environments.
Computer-controlled turntables and DSLR cameras provide professional-quality capture of objects or artifacts for presentation or analysis.
IU3D
The IU3D initiative unifies the digitization, display, and distribution of 3D content at IU. This includes projects as varied as digitizing biological specimens, running large-scale 3D scans of facilities and cultural heritage collections, and bringing artwork into a 3D environment.
Consulting and production for 3D printing, models, and environments, and commodity virtual and augmented reality.
Consulting and production for 3D digitization methods.
Consulting and production for 3D printing, models, and environments, and commodity virtual and augmented reality.
Exhibit development services
Digitized objects and spaces are useful only when effectively shared to enhance research, education, or outreach missions. Our exhibit development services are the complement to our digitization services and cover both online and in-person exhibit technologies. Exhibit development services are available through medium- and long-term consulting projects.
Supported technologies include immersive virtual tours with annotations, interactive 3D object viewers, browsable interfaces for collections, and best practices for data management and metadata.
Technologies and techniques include multi-touch interfaces, large-format and holographic displays, projection mapping, virtual and augmented reality, and high-end 3D prints.
IU 3D showcase
Our work covers a wide variety of projects at IU and beyond.
Bicentennial Traveling Exhibit
IU3D partnered with the IU Office of the Bicentennial and AVL to provide a range of physical exhibits and content for this mobile museum.
Developed for the Traveling Bicentennial Exhibit, this 360 experience, originally presented in a VR headset, allows users to visit interior and exterior spaces on of each of IU’s eight campuses.
IU3D has partnered with the Herron School of Art + Design at IUPUI to document its public galleries where exhibits change every three months.
IU3D collaborated with Darlene Sadlier and curators at the Lilly Library to digitize realia and create this 3D companion site to Sadlier’s book.
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