Virtual Reality for Information Visualization Might Just Work This Time

Information Visualization in Desktop Virtual Reality

Desktop virtual reality (VR) offers a powerful environment for visualizing structure in large information sets. In well-designed virtual worlds, users can employ skills from wayfinding in the real world. This paper reports the development and testing of a series of prototype VR worlds, designed to support navigation during information visualization and retrieval. Results indicated that users’ s...

24 Visualization Using Virtual Reality

24.1.2 Virtual Reality What we now often refer to as virtual reality was first proposed in the 1960s [16,38,39]. In addition to the term ‘‘virtual reality,’’ many other terms such as ‘‘virtual environments,’’ ‘‘synthetic environments,’’ ‘‘virtual worlds,’’ and ‘‘artificial reality’’ have been used. Virtual reality has the capability of providing sensory information of sufficient fidelity that t...

Scientific Visualization in Virtual Reality

We present Studierstube our multi-user virtual environment and its application in the area of scientific visualization. We discuss concepts and advantages of using augmented reality – where the real environment is overlaid by computer generated images – as userinterface to complex, three-dimensional visualizations. We describe our experiences with such a system and propose future work in the ar...

Modular Virtual Reality Visualization Tools

We describe a collection of tools designed to be used in a Modular Visualization Environment (MVE) that facilitate the use of a Virtual Reality (VR) input device. VR input devices provide the means to easily and intuitively specify information which is threeor six-dimensional. Many scientific visualization tasks require this type of information. Our goal is to reduce the user interface complexi...

Modular Virtual Reality Visualization Tools