Over the past 30 years, many research organizations established large-scale immersive visualization laboratories. Some have been very successful, but others are no longer around. With the recent availability of COTS virtual reality devices, the need for larger immersive visualization laboratories comes into question. Some immersive visualization laboratories have moved away from large scale facilities due to the cost of maintaining these more elaborate systems. But can immersive visualization requirements be satisfied solely using COTS VR devices used by researchers in their own office?

The goal of this workshop is to gather practitioners from immersive visualization laboratories to share their success stories, information about their hardware setups and the software they used and/or developed. Panel discussion can also include "not-so-successful" stories with lessons learned and workshop participants will also come together to discuss the future of large-scale immersive visualization labs. We also hope to bring visualization practitioners together to advance the way our field works with immersive visualization hardware and software frameworks for a sustainable immersive visualization laboratory.

The program will consist of a balanced mix of keynote talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions around the current state of immersive visualization labs, and the path forward. Topics of interest to the “Immersive Visualization Laboratory” workshop may include, but are not limited to:

·        Immersive visualization laboratory success stories in research institutions and industry

·        Immersive visualization laboratory not-so-successful stories in research institutions and industry

·        Strategies for sustainability

·        Scientific and visualization workflows for large-scale labs

Immersive visualization laboratory panel questions

·        Do we still need immersive visualization laboratories?

·        What is missing from existing immersive visualization laboratories?

·        How much can we rely on custom code vs. shared tools?

Workshop Website https://sites.google.com/view/ivl-workshop3

Important Dates

Submission deadline Monday, January 06, 2025

Notification deadline Thursday, January 09, 2025

New Notification deadline Monday, January 13, 2025 (New date)

Camera-ready deadline Thursday, January 16, 2025

1st extension Camera-ready deadline Monday, January 20th, 2025 (AoE)

New Camera-ready deadline Monday, January 27th, 2025 (AoE) (New date)

Workshop Sunday March 9th, 2025 14:00 - 18:00

Workshop Schedule

14:00 - 14:05 Welcome (Bill Sherman)

14:05 - 14:45 The Nightmare of Operating an Immersive Visualization Center for more than 25 Years (Invited Speaker Torsten Kuhlen) 

14:45 - 15:00 Surround-Screen-Based Display Systems in Immersive Visualization Laboratories: Applications, Benefits, and Lower-Cost Solutions (Ross Tredinnick)

15:00 - 15:15 Human-Centered Intelligent Realities Laboratory (Yan Hu)

15:15 - 15:30 Designing a user centric VR UI/UX for scientific visualisation (Mathieu Westphal)

15:30 - 15:45 Scaling immersive visualization with COTS VR: the Voxar Labs experience (João Marcelo Xavier Natario Teixeira)

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 - 16:30 IVL Workflow - A Blueprint to Designing Applications for an Immersive Visualization Laboratory (Elisabeth Mayer)

16:30 - 16:45 Immerstar, a still evolving 25 years old VR research facility (Ronan Gaugne)

16:45 - 17:00 Exploring the Use of Large Immersive Display Systems in the Nuclear Industry (Rajiv Khadka)

17:00 - 17:15 Immersive Analytics the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (Luc Renambot)

17:15 - 17:30 The Value of Immersion in Co-present, Collaborative Safety Review (Nicholas Polys)

17:30 - 17:45 Virtual Reality User Interface (VRUI): An open source platform for collaborative data immersion and analysis (Carl Stahmer)

17:45 - 17:55 General Discussion (Everyone)

17:55 - 18:00 Closing - Collaborative Visualization with Immersive ParaView (Simon Su)

Submission Guidelines

Short research papers and position papers are accepted for up to 4 pages (excluding references) in TVCG format. Please refer to https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ for paper formatting guidelines and templates. Paper can be submitted through Precision Conference Solution for IEEE VR 2025 this year at https://new.precisionconference.com/vr25a  Please use the Track : IEEE VR 2025 Workshop: IVL

Workshop co-chairs

William Sherman National Institute of Standards and Technology william.sherman@nist.gov

Simon Su National Institute of Standards and Technology simon.su@nist.gov