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Our mission is to partner with research groups and industry to transform visualisation practice, by innovating and promoting new paradigms in immersive, collaborative visualisation of data and environments.
MIVP operates a number of Monash University's advanced, immersive and large scale visualisation facilities, ranging from the ultra-scale CAVE2, to personal head-mounted virtual reality (VR) devices. We connect you - researchers and industry - to nascent display and interaction technologies that stand to change the way you visualise, comprehend and analyse your big data.
Feature: Monash's Future Meeting Room - free trials in June!
16 May 2018
Monash's Future Meeting Room is one of the first complete capabilities deployed in the Grid Innovation Hub's Future Control Room (FCR), in the New Horizons building, Clayton Campus. The Future Meeting Room is based on SAGE2, a new web-based collaboration system, funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by our colleagues at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The heart of the Future Meeting Room is the ability to mirror any number of desktop or laptop screens, or application windows, in the room onto the ultra-wide, high-resolution display wall. Screen sharing can be done via software or a hybrid hardware/software mode where high refresh rate is needed (e.g. for video playback). SAGE2 enables all attendees in the meeting to contribute content to the wall, and to participate in the arrangement of the content, and for synchronisation with remote sites also using SAGE2. It is therefore easy to share any of the following with local and remote participants from any of the FCR workstations or any user laptop:
- Logged in as a Monash user:
- Monash site-licensed software (Microsoft, Adobe, ...)
- Google Drive and Apps
- Browsers
- Custom software application windows or full-screen displays
- Videos, images, PDF files
- Sticky notes (a super easy way to annotate the wall display)
- Video conferencing (Zoom)
Check out the video below of the SAGE2 system, and get in touch with the MIVP team to arrange your free trial meeting in June!
(n.b. the FCR display wall is not a touch screen so layout and arrangement is instead controlled from the workstations, laptops, or the FCR touch table.)
Facilities and Capabilities
Graphics Programming
Our graphics programmers are gurus in the latest shader technology, enabling them to create super-fast algorithms that can render your largest data sets at interactive frame rates.
Virtual Reality
Our focus in the fast-evolving space of VR is on developing capabilities for visualising big data, and creating possibilities for virtual team work.
Display and VR Consulting
MIVP operate some of the most advanced AV equipment at Monash, and can contribute to the design and operation of your next smart space.
Monash CAVE2
The Monash CAVE2 is an immersive hybrid 2D and 3D virtual reality environment, showcasing Monash’s leadership in the data visualisation domain.
Development and Concept Support
Smaller, more flexible visualisation displays, including TRIO and CURV and transparent touch displays, are supported for development use and ideation.
Scientific Programming
Our expertise in scientific programming is broad, with special focus areas in image processing and analysis, acceleration of computational codes, and solving spatial problems.