XR Dataviz Workshop Open Vis Conf 2018 {Events}

XRDatavizWorkshopOpenVisConf2018 May 16 2018 9am

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

• http://fabien.benetou.fr/pub/home/OpenVisConf2018/

See also

• https://frontendmasters.com/courses/d3-v4/
• https://aframe.io/aframe-school/
• https://aframe.io/docs/0.8.0/introduction/entity-component-system.html
• http://blockbuilder.org/search#text%3Daframe by https://twitter.com/enjalot/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb2b5nFmmsM
• https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/
• https://github.com/mustafasaifee42/vr-viz

Other reviews or coverage

• here

To do

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