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The Stereoscopic Hi-Def 3D Display at the RENCI Europa building at UNC-Chapel Hill provides users with a true 3D experience in native 1920 x 1080p high-definition resolution.  Users are provided passive 3D glasses to view both interactive and streaming movie content allowing them to gain insight into their data well beyond traditional HD displays.

The system is a 70" x 40" rear-projected display driven by two JVC HD2K projectors in a left-eye, right-eye stereoscopic configuration.  A nVidia Quadroplex 5500 drives interactive stereocopic applications while two Apple Xserve RAID arrays with 15 hard drives each provide uncompressed HD quality streaming movies in true left-eye/right-eye 3D.

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The RENCI Europa multi-projector display wall is a 12-x 8-foot rear-projection systems capable of visualizing data at 15 million pixels--more than seven times better than a high-definition TV. The system at Europa Center has 30TB of directly attached storage with plans to interact with a cache capable of storing one Petabyte of data. The wall allows researchers to view large-scale, time-dependent data as color-coded visual simulations of complicated processes, such as the interactions of proteins that play a role in causing disease or changes in atmospheric conditions that could signify development of a tropical storm.