  We developed a new advanced ultra-cold Dysprosium (Dy) apparatus, which
incorporates a quantum gas microscope (QGM) with a resolution of a quarter
micrometer. The QGM and the cooling and trapping regions are within the same
vacuum glass vessel assuring simple atom transport between them. We demonstrate
the essential experimental steps of laser and evaporative cooling, lattice
loading, transporting and precise positioning of a cloud of the bosonic isotope
164 Dy at the QGM focal plane. Preliminary basic characterization of the QGM
and future plans in enabling its full capacity are outlined. We also present a
feasible platform for simulating complex spin models of quantum magnetism, such
as XYZ model, by exploiting a set of closely spaced opposite parity levels in
Dy with a large magnetic and electric dipole moment. We isolate a degenerate
isospin-1/2 system, which possesses both magnetic and electric dipole-dipole
coupling, containing Ising, exchange and spin-orbit terms. The last gives rise
to a spin model with asymmetric tunable rates, dependable on the lattice
geometry.
