The Reality Deck - Immersive Gigapixel Display

We designed and built a next-generation visualization facility, the Reality Deck, that simultaneously offers state-of-the-art aggregate resolution and immersion. The Reality Deck is a 1.5 gigapixel immersive tiled display with a full 360◦ horizontal field of view. Comprised of 416 high density LCD displays, it is built to tackle today’s big data problems while providing users with 20 20 visual acuity for the majority of the visualization space. In this article, we discuss the motivations, design principles and engineering challenges behind the Reality Deck. Additionally, we showcase several techniques that were developed on the facility, focused on enabling natural exploration and supporting the visual analysis of big data. Author Contact Details: • Charilaos Papadopoulos Affiliation: Dept. of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, NY, USA Address: Dept. of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-4400 Tel: +1 (917)859-0527 Email: [email protected]