Solar System and Jupiter App
Explore the solar system by touch and augmented reality. New app for iOS, Android and Oculus Rift designed by BSU’s IDIA Lab allows users to learn about our sun and planets – and their moons. Physical museum objects trigger augmented experiences of each planet, providing deeper context and understanding. View the moon’s orbits, examine each […]
Read More About Solar System and Jupiter AppLaunch of Virtual Companion iOS app by IDIA Lab
Learn how modern technology can shape our understanding of the past during a special program at Mounds State Park on Saturday, Nov. 14. Visitors to the 1 p.m. program will join park naturalist Kelley Morgan to learn about modern technologies that help archaeologists and historians bring the past to life. During the second half, director […]
Read More About Launch of Virtual Companion iOS app by IDIA LabBuffalo Bill’s Wild West gets a virtual makeover
Digital artists from Ball State’s IDIA Lab built their virtual simulation of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West with the Unity 3-D gaming platform along with custom software created by the lab. Cowboys and Indians captivated the country when Buffalo Bill’s Wild West rolled through America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. More than a century […]
Read More About Buffalo Bill’s Wild West gets a virtual makeoverOculus Rift + Leap Motion controller 3D printing.
Using our MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D printer, IDIA’s Chris Harrison worked with David Rodriguez to create a family of 3 brackets with varying uses and advantages to mount a Leap Motion Controller to the front of an Oculus Rift DK2. Finding that double sided tape was not doing a very effective job of holding the Leap […]
Read More About Oculus Rift + Leap Motion controller 3D printing.Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Demo
The Oculus Rift allows users to be visually transported to virtual 3D worlds. When paired with the Leap Motion, users now have the ability to interact with a 3D virtual world using their own hands. The visual displays on the Oculus Rift project the user into an immersive 3D environment. The Leap Motion then allows […]
Read More About Oculus Rift and Leap Motion DemoIDIA Lab’s SIMviolin to be auctioned off for fundraiser
IDIA Lab Staff Chris Harrison, Dan Eisinger, Blake Boucher, Trevor Danehy and Andy Hesick worked with Director John Fillwalk in designing and building a 3D scanned and laser printed violin – playable by gesture using custom, self-contained electronics. Bid here: https://qtego.net/qlink/emens.php MUNCIE – For anybody who has ever dreamed of playing the violin, but found […]
Read More About IDIA Lab’s SIMviolin to be auctioned off for fundraiserVirtual Chichen Itza
IDIA Lab’s Virtual Chichen Itza is a simulation of the large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Post-Classic era. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.The layout of the Chichen Itza core site developed during its earlier phase of occupation, between 750 and […]
Read More About Virtual Chichen ItzaVirtual Apollo 15
IDIA Lab’s Virtual Apollo 15 is a simulation of the mission which launched on July 26, 1971 from the Kennedy Space Center, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. During the launch, the S-IC did not completely shut off following staging for four seconds, creating the possibility of the spent stage banging into the S-II engines, damaging them […]
Read More About Virtual Apollo 15Virtual Kitty Hawk
IDIA Lab’s Kitty Hawk is a simulation of the moment recorded in the famous photograph of the flight of the Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer I or 1903 Flyer). This flyer was the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, […]
Read More About Virtual Kitty HawkVirtual Izapa
IDIA Lab’s Virtual Izapa, is a simulation of the site that is considered to be the birthplace of the Mayan Long Count, which ended its cycle today on December 21st, 2012 – the winter solstice. Viewed today, the site is oriented on an axis where it is aligned generally but not precisely to sunrise on […]
Read More About Virtual IzapaVirtual Giza Necropolis
BSU IDIA Lab’s Virtual Giza Necropolis is an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramids known as the Great Pyramids, the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers’ village and an industrial complex. It is located some […]
Read More About Virtual Giza NecropolisVirtual Mosque Demo
Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts at Ball State University (IDIA Lab). A demonstration level featuring architecture of the Mosque. Visit Virtual Mosque Demo in Blue Mars http://blink.bluemars.com/City/IDIA_Mosque/ Virtual Mosque Demo in Blue Mars Video Walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYS7Zafr0bk
Read More About Virtual Mosque DemoTemple of Artemis: Wonder of the Ancient World
IDIA Lab was contracted by digital humanities scholars at UCLA to design and build a virtual simulation of the Temple of Artemis, one of the Wonders of the Ancient World, This massive Greek temple, four times the size of the Parthenon lies in ruin in present-day Turkey. This simulation incorporates our CelestialEngine with accurately positions […]
Read More About Temple of Artemis: Wonder of the Ancient WorldREDgrid: BSU Virtual World for Teaching & Learning
IDIA is pleased to announce REDgrid – a 3D virtual campus to support the educational mission of faculty, staff and students. Ball State community members can use it for free as a virtual gathering space including classroom instruction, small group meetings, presentations, panel discussions, or performances. It is a secure environment hosted and managed solely […]
Read More About REDgrid: BSU Virtual World for Teaching & LearningIDIA Lab wins the Bronze Medal at iENA Exposition in Nuremberg, Germany
IDIA Lab’s Virtual Pantheon/Kinect project in Blue Mars and our occupational simulation for Alzheimer’s patients won the Bronze Medal at the iENA International Trade Fair for Ideas, Inventions and New Products in Nuremberg, Germany. http://www.iena.de/en/home.html The Virtual Pantheon Project in Blue Mars is a multi-user simulation of the Roman Pantheon and its surroundings as it […]
Read More About IDIA Lab wins the Bronze Medal at iENA Exposition in Nuremberg, GermanyoneWAPIHANNE: White River data Visualization
oneWAPIHANNE is an interactive artwork visualizing live streaming data from water stations along the White River in Indiana. The stations are installed and monitored by the United States Geological Survey [USGS] – reporting the current gauge height and water speed over time. The visualization graphically represents each stations’ data in their entirety or individually – […]
Read More About oneWAPIHANNE: White River data VisualizationVirtual Roman Pantheon in Blue Mars / CryEngine
The Pantheon is the best-preserved architectural monument of ancient Rome. This simulation by BSU’s IDIA Lab represents the Pantheon and its surrounds as it may have appeared in 320 AD. Visitors to this Blue Mars / CryEngine simulation can tour the vicinity, learning about the history, function and solar alignments through an interactive heads up […]
Read More About Virtual Roman Pantheon in Blue Mars / CryEngineVirtual Art Museum and Virtual Collaboration Center Projects in AvayaLive Engage
The IDIA Lab has developed two new simulations for AvayaLive Engage – a multi-user virtual world platform based on the Unreal Game Engine. The virtual collaboration Center is a multi-use teaching and learning facility prototype for use by large and small groups containing rich media and collaboration tools including desktop sharing, presentations, drop box, white […]
Read More About Virtual Art Museum and Virtual Collaboration Center Projects in AvayaLive EngageVirtual Nursing Simulator
HDT and IDIA Lab have developed a next generation, high-fidelity Virtual Nursing Simulator in the game engine of Unity 3D for testing by the Ball State University School of Nursing. Students will practice interviews via role-playing – employing avatars with predefined health histories. The simulator introduces our new media tools within the environment including the […]
Read More About Virtual Nursing SimulatorNational Endowment for the Humanities: Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2013
IDIA Lab Director John Fillwalk will be presenting at the National Endowment for the Humanities: Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2013 sponsored by the Center for Digital Initiatives at University of Arkansas. About & Schedule This NEH Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities will take place from June 17, 2013 – July […]
Read More About National Endowment for the Humanities: Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2013