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ISELF now offers immersive visualization

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A woman stands in the Visbox surrounded by a skeleton projected onto the three walls and floor

A student stands views an MRI scan from the inside in the St. Cloud State University Visbox Viscube C4.

Engineering and art students have been immersing themselves in visualization work for the past two years in the Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility (ISELF) Visualization Lab.

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This semester students will be taking it one step further with the installation Sept. 15 of a Visbox Viscube C4 in the basement of ISELF.

The Visbox Viscube C4 is an immersive virtual reality system that features rear-projection walls and a front projected floor. The Visbox offers a tracking system and graphics workstation to allow users to interact with the virtual 3D world they see when they step into the box.

A man kneels on the ground looking at the projection within the Viscube as others look on during the demonstration

A man checks out a projection of a car during a demonstration of the Visbox Viscube C4.

Visbox systems are designed to visualize scientific or engineering problems. St. Cloud State students will take its applications further to encourage students to develop programming for the system and integrate interdisciplinary projects.

“We’re going to allow undergraduate students to develop applications for it and use the system,” said Visualization Engineer Mark Gill. “In keeping with the cross discipline philosophy we’re trying to foster, the system will be available to whoever might have a use for it.”

Representatives from Visbox install the Visbox Viscube Sept. 13-14.

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