Virtual environments provide a variety of interaction modes including large-size, high-resolution, stereo, and autostereo. All are necessary and useful for extracting more information from complex scientific data.
Autostereo can be accomplished with either a passive or active barrier. Multiple untracked viewpoints or two tracked viewpoints can be generated. Further reading: Peterka, T., Kooima, R., Sandin, D., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., DeFanti, T.: Advances in the Dynallax Solid-State Dynamic Parallax Barrier Autostereoscopic Visualization Display System. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 3, p. 487-499, May/June 2008. pdf bibtex
A library called Dynamic View Client (dvc) supports immersive applications and devices, and couples them to supercomputing back-ends. Further reading: Peterka, T., Ross, R., Yu, H., Ma, K.-L., Kooima, R., and Girado, Javier: Autostereoscopic Display of Large-Scale Scientific Visualization. Proceedings of IS&T / SPIE SD&A XX Conference, San Jose CA, January 2009. pdf bibtex
Interaction through autostereo display, head tracking, and navigation is available in a variety of work environments for scientific discovery.
