GIS PAPER: DEEP MAPPING
BSU’s James Connolly, Director, Center for Middletown Studies and John Fillwalk, Director, IDIA Lab presented their joint paper at the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Seattle, WA. This paper explored innovations in visualizing data in immersive 3D environments associated with the newly launched Deep Mapping Middletown project. Lead […]
Read More About GIS PAPER: DEEP MAPPINGVirtual Companion: Indianapolis
Virtual Monument Circle is a mobile application that uses historic photographs and maps of downtown Indianapolis, IN to create an immersive interpretation of various historic phases of the city center. This project is a prototype for a larger potential city-wide endeavor bringing to life significant neighborhoods and sites within the city. It is developed as […]
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IDIA Lab – in collaboration with BSU Assistant Professor of Architecture, Kristin Barry – has designed the cultural heritage mobile application, Virtual Columbus Experience – allowing users to virtually tour the rich architectural history of Columbus, Indiana. This locative mobile app was produced with fellowship support of Ball State University’s Digital Scholarship Lab. Though a […]
Read More About Virtual Companion: ColumbusSinespace Gallery Designer
IDIA Lab has created a virtual gallery design system in partnership with virtual world creator Sinespace. Sinespace, a multi-user virtual world platform based in the UK, contacted IDIA to design this system for their new virtual environment. The Gallery Designer isan easy to use system to dynamically create gallery and museum exhibitions on the fly […]
Read More About Sinespace Gallery DesignerWright Brothers Workshop
IDIA Lab has created a virtual simulation of the Wright Brothers bicycle shop in Dayton, OH for the HTC Vive headset and SteamVR. The environment is a recreation of the Wright Cycle Company, on South Williams Street in Dayton was built in 1886 and is a US National Historic Landmark and on the National Register […]
Read More About Wright Brothers WorkshopEVAC+ Virtual Disaster Simulator
IDIA Lab partnered with physicians at the Seattle Children’s Hospital to develop a virtual simulator to train staff in the case of various disasters. The EVAC+ Virtual Disaster Simulator leverages virtual reality to train health care providers to react quickly and effectively to unexpected events that threaten patient safety. It was developed after pilot live simulations, user […]
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Ball State University and Ohio History Council Sponsored by the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities The public will be able to explore the prehistoric Newark Earthworks in Ohio the way they appeared 2,000 years ago. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities, this interactive 3D simulation […]
Read More About Virtual World Heritage OhioApollo 11 VR on Steam
Apollo 11 VR is a first person experience of the interior of the 1969 Command Module. Explore the cockpit firsthand in an authentic model of the interior based on scans from the Smithsonian. This is the 50th anniversary of the historic landing where Buzz Aldrin and Neal Armstrong walked on the surface of the moon […]
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ATK (Audio Tool Kit) is a demo of ATK-Sharp, a procedural audio generation library. ATK contains four example sound scripts that developers can use as a reference to script their own custom sounds. Download now from the Unity Asset Store! Why use procedural audio? Using procedurally-generated audio instead of pre-made audio files has two main benefits: 1. Build […]
Read More About ATK Procedural Audio LibraryBALL STATE UNIVERSITY AND TU DORTMUND EXCHANGE PROGRAM IN INTERMEDIA ART
Ball State University and the Technische Universität Dortmund have partnered in creating an international exchange program for students studying the design and technology of Intermedia artforms. Ball State University and the Technische Universität Dortmund have partnered in creating an international exchange program for students studying the design and technology of Intermedia artforms. This program will […]
Read More About BALL STATE UNIVERSITY AND TU DORTMUND EXCHANGE PROGRAM IN INTERMEDIA ARTIDIA Lab Featured on WTHR News for Virtual Reality research
The future of home entertainment is taking a giant step forward into the world of virtual reality. More devices are hitting the market that transform the way we look at the world around us, and a group of developers at Ball State is on the cutting edge. It’s something we experienced first-hand at Ball State […]
Read More About IDIA Lab Featured on WTHR News for Virtual Reality researchSolar 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, […]
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