XRDatavizWorkshopOpenVisConf2018 May 16 2018 9am

Own objectives

  1. share WebXR experience
  2. enable newcomers to efficiently begin
  3. explore from dataviz experts

Attended activities

  • part 1: make me a Paris
  • part 2: replicate an object 50 times without copy pasting
  • part 3: displaying a dataset
  • part 4 : designing an immersive data visualisation

part 1: make me a Paris

3 solutions,

  • the easy one (example + an equirectangular image),
  • medium one (few primitives and flat images) and
  • the hard one (only primitives);

remarks

  • default position of 0 0 0 confusing (especially since z=0 means... where the camera is, thus invisible)
  • confusion on equirectangular images (projection or not)
  • material="side:double" problematic e.g. while being in an entity that is 10 times too large

part 2: replicate an object 50 times without copy pasting

  • DOM manipulation,
  • D3 manipulation;

remarks

  • D3 part went flawlessly
    • beside confusion on setting position (debug/string/object)
    • making sure the scene has loaded (entities available, registering a component)

part 3: displaying a dataset

D3 previous part with ... data = [1,2,3, 20, 50] and specifying attributes

part 4 : designing an immersive data visualisation

Based on that day visualisation in Le Monde

  • tendency to go back to 2D
    • linked doubt of the added value of 3D
    • can consider instead how to NOT use 3D projected back to a 2D surface i.e. being literally "inside" the graph rather than facing it
  • ideas on using gaze to
    • overlay extra information
    • unveil the future of a triend
  • ideas on generating entities (e.g. mountain with trees and river with different scales for renewable energies)
  • discussion on mixing all 3 aspects
    • HUD for objective data point information
    • embodiment (e.g rollercoaster) for "feeling" the dataset
    • using 3D customized objects as the newest version of quantagrams (quantagraphs?)

Overall remarks and conclusions

  • only 2 participants with threejs knoweldge

Abbreviated presentation MozillaTeachSpeakersQ12018?action=reveal Quite coverage https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/996830732235563009 Back to the Menu

Going further

  • scale (including color bands)
  • animation

Photos

See also

Other reviews or coverage

  • here

To do

  1. improve Template
  2. add map data (:ola-point lat= lon= text='':)