The Visual and Spatial Technology Centre (VISTA) at the University of Birmingham, UK, is an ardent user of Mechdyne's Conduit software in conjunction with a stereoscopic Mechdyne PowerWall™. Using their state-of-the-art technology VISTA, which is one of the best-equipped archaeological visualization laboratories in Europe, supports academic research and application development for spatial analysis, visualization and imaging. Paul Hatton and Simon Fitch lead the visualization team at VISTA. One way they use 3D data is to evaluate how climate change over history has affected landscape features. Environment changes then affected how and where people lived in an area during a given time in history. This also affected how inhabitants migrated over time since changing climate changed their ability to occupy the landscape. The importance of displaying on the large screen with a user's perspective prompted the VISTA team to obtain Conduit. VISTA's stereoscopic Powerwall is 4.27m (15.0') wide x 1.8m (6.0') high, with dual channel rear projection. By projecting the collected data on a large screen, students and researchers are able to evaluate the data more clearly and accurately. An optical tracking system arranged around the screen monitors the position of the viewer in real time and changes the data to match a single viewer's body position and head orientation. The effect is like moving naturally through real environments facilitating faster and more intuitive reviews of data. Fitch says "It was a pleasant surprise how much the students loved it. One of the classes that uses the Conduit and PowerWall system has the highest satisfaction scores as rated by students." Not only are the students utilizing the software, but the Powerwall system is also used for public events. Conduit's ease of use makes it simple for practically anyone to navigate through research and data with ease. The University of Birmingham conducts a wide-range of research projects that vary in size and scope, including the recording and visualization of terrain and large-scale landscape objects. Three dimensional models are created from scanning and recording standing structures, earthworks, and archaeological deposits. After the 3D models are recorded, they can then be loaded into common applications such as Google Earth, Google SketchUp, 3D Studio Max, and ESRI ArcScene. Using Mechdyne's Conduit Software, these models can be displayed directly from the desktop onto a large immersive 3D projection system. The immersive display system enables intuitive analysis of the 3D models so researchers gain a better understanding of size and spatial relationships of the data. Due to the sizable scale of the data that is being researched, a large immersive display is crucial in evaluating this information. The 3D PowerWall designed and integrated by Mechdyne serves as a valuable interpretation and validation tool. It allows users to visualize the interpretations and either validate their findings or suggest other scenarios. Mechdyne's Conduit software enables the Powerwall users to edit the data live on the desktop application and view the changes in real-time on the immersive display. The PowerWall is used on a regular basis for teaching at the University. Also, Conduit software enables several interactive, real-time lectures that are part of VISTA's "Virtual Worlds" course.