Why Use Immersive VRfor Visualization?

• Hypothesis: Immersive virtual reality is better than conventional display

  • being immersed in one’s data and model and having more fluid, body-centric interaction makes it easier to understand
  • especially powerful when collaborators can share their real/virtual spaces
  • Caves and Walls have more pixels than conventional displays

• We want to replace anecdotal evidence by controlled experiments (despite the fact that people vote w/ their feet)

  • NB: current generation of h/w & s/w may not yet be up to such comparison

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