The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL): An Immersive Virtual Environment for Research, Teaching and Collaboration
The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL) is a large-scale immersive virtual environment for research, teaching, collaboration and outreach at our mid-sized liberal arts university. MARVL consists of multiple display surfaces including an extra wide front wall and floor, and two side walls. This resou...
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| description | The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL) is a large-scale immersive virtual environment for research, teaching, collaboration and outreach at our mid-sized liberal arts university. MARVL consists of multiple display surfaces including an extra wide front wall and floor, and two side walls. This resource includes stereoscopic viewing, motion tracking and space for a large audience. MARVL’s versatile configuration facilitates viewing of content by 30 people, while also projecting on the entire width of the floor. This feature uniquely facilitates comparative or separate content visible simultaneously via “split mode” operation (two 3-sided environments), as well as detailed motion for applications such as gait analysis and performing arts. Since establishing the lab, its members have received numerous queries and requests pertaining to how system attributes and applications were determined, suggesting these and related decisions remain a challenge nearly three decades since the first CAVE was constructed. This paper provides an overview of MARVL including the processes used in identifying a diverse group of cross campus users, understanding their collective vision for potential use, and synthesizing this information to create the resource described above. The subsequent design, qualitative and quantitative approaches to vendor selection, and software decisions are then discussed. Steps implemented for dealing with simulator sickness and latency are presented along with current approaches being implemented for project development with end users. Finally, we present results from the use of MARVL by several end users identified in the early planning stage, and recent upgrades to the system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-264bdf6da8cc47e0addd0bc5d4dd803f2022-12-22T01:33:25ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Education2504-284X2020-04-01510.3389/feduc.2020.00038514187The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL): An Immersive Virtual Environment for Research, Teaching and CollaborationJohn F. LaDisa0John F. LaDisa1Christopher E. Larkee2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOpus College of Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOpus College of Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL) is a large-scale immersive virtual environment for research, teaching, collaboration and outreach at our mid-sized liberal arts university. MARVL consists of multiple display surfaces including an extra wide front wall and floor, and two side walls. This resource includes stereoscopic viewing, motion tracking and space for a large audience. MARVL’s versatile configuration facilitates viewing of content by 30 people, while also projecting on the entire width of the floor. This feature uniquely facilitates comparative or separate content visible simultaneously via “split mode” operation (two 3-sided environments), as well as detailed motion for applications such as gait analysis and performing arts. Since establishing the lab, its members have received numerous queries and requests pertaining to how system attributes and applications were determined, suggesting these and related decisions remain a challenge nearly three decades since the first CAVE was constructed. This paper provides an overview of MARVL including the processes used in identifying a diverse group of cross campus users, understanding their collective vision for potential use, and synthesizing this information to create the resource described above. The subsequent design, qualitative and quantitative approaches to vendor selection, and software decisions are then discussed. Steps implemented for dealing with simulator sickness and latency are presented along with current approaches being implemented for project development with end users. Finally, we present results from the use of MARVL by several end users identified in the early planning stage, and recent upgrades to the system.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.00038/fullimmersive visualizationvirtual realityaugmented realitymixed realitysimulationstudent-centered learning |
| spellingShingle | John F. LaDisa John F. LaDisa Christopher E. Larkee The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL): An Immersive Virtual Environment for Research, Teaching and Collaboration Frontiers in Education immersive visualization virtual reality augmented reality mixed reality simulation student-centered learning |
| title | The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL): An Immersive Virtual Environment for Research, Teaching and Collaboration |
| title_full | The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL): An Immersive Virtual Environment for Research, Teaching and Collaboration |
| title_fullStr | The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL): An Immersive Virtual Environment for Research, Teaching and Collaboration |
| title_full_unstemmed | The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL): An Immersive Virtual Environment for Research, Teaching and Collaboration |
| title_short | The MARquette Visualization Lab (MARVL): An Immersive Virtual Environment for Research, Teaching and Collaboration |
| title_sort | marquette visualization lab marvl an immersive virtual environment for research teaching and collaboration |
| topic | immersive visualization virtual reality augmented reality mixed reality simulation student-centered learning |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.00038/full |
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