Immersive Visualization: Enhancing Intuition via the First-Person Interface

Facilitators: Tony O'Driscoll, North Carolina State and Brent Schlenker, e-Learning Guild
Session #: 308
Session Title: Immersive Visualization: Enhancing Intuition via the First-Person Interface

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Room: Olympic

Description

This session explores how 3D virtual world technology enhances collective inquiry and intuition by enabling peer-to-peer avatar-mediated interaction and collaboration around visually (and virtually) rendered data-sets or artifacts.

The session will cover the notion of Immersive Visualization and how 3D virtual world technology enables us to collaboratively engage with data or artifacts in new and revealing ways. The group will tour various places in Second LIfe where we will explore how virtualization meets visualization and immersion to create a new experience:

• What it feel like to be enveloped in a VanGogh painting Sphere
• What it feels like to be a white blood cell flowing through the bloodstream
• What it feel like to fly around Saturn
• What it feel like to sit inside a protein molecule while it is folding
• What it looks like to hike the S&P 500 data for the past 6 months
• How people can interact around a building prototype to make sense of it

The session will end with an “Imaging the possibilities” of augmented virtual reality where people from all around the world can interact with each other and with virtualized/visualized data sets in order to “Grok” them more elegantly and holistically. 

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