DXR : A Toolkit for Building Immersive Data Visualizations
This paper presents DXR, a toolkit for building immersive data visualizations based on the Unity development platform. Over the past years, immersive data visualizations in augmented and virtual reality (AR, VR) have been emerging as a promising medium for data sense-making beyond the desktop. Howev...
Publié dans: | IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 25(2019), 1 vom: 20. Jan., Seite 715-725 |
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Autres auteurs: | , , , , , |
Format: | Article en ligne |
Langue: | English |
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2019
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Accès à la collection: | IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics |
Sujets: | Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
Résumé: | This paper presents DXR, a toolkit for building immersive data visualizations based on the Unity development platform. Over the past years, immersive data visualizations in augmented and virtual reality (AR, VR) have been emerging as a promising medium for data sense-making beyond the desktop. However, creating immersive visualizations remains challenging, and often require complex low-level programming and tedious manual encoding of data attributes to geometric and visual properties. These can hinder the iterative idea-to-prototype process, especially for developers without experience in 3D graphics, AR, and VR programming. With DXR, developers can efficiently specify visualization designs using a concise declarative visualization grammar inspired by Vega-Lite. DXR further provides a GUI for easy and quick edits and previews of visualization designs in-situ, i.e., while immersed in the virtual world. DXR also provides reusable templates and customizable graphical marks, enabling unique and engaging visualizations. We demonstrate the flexibility of DXR through several examples spanning a wide range of applications |
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Description: | Date Completed 30.12.2019 Date Revised 30.12.2019 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
ISSN: | 1941-0506 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2865152 |