[yt-users] YT VR Visualisation

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Yup, we have been, and with the vive and oculus specifically.  Right
> now though, it never got past much of a tech demo phase -- there's
> code on my group's bitbucket account (bitbucket.org/data-exp-lab/ )
> that runs in Unity, and Nathan Goldbaum got some of the stuff that's
> in yt (the volume rendering) to work with the OpenVR python bindings
> directly (not srue where that code is) but it's all still pretty early
> on.


This code isn't really usable yet. In order for this to actually work,
we'll need a big overhaul of the OpenGL volume rendering in yt to use
multiple passes.

In addition there were significant performance issues that I never tracked
down. Unfortunately I'm no expert on graphics programming and that's
probably what's needed here.


> Not sure it's quite shovel ready.  There're some students coming
> on soon that will take another look, but July might be a bit
> optimistic...  That being said, it'd be an awesome hack or
> collaboration and if you are interested in trying to push it at all,
> that'd be pretty rad.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Alexander Hamilton
> <A.Hamilton at 2016.hull.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi guys, I’m Alex from Hull University.
> > We’re hosting the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting in July and I’ve been
> > asked to run the hack day.
> >
> > I’ve managed to procure some VR headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and MS
> > Hololens) and want to try and see if we could use them for visualising
> some
> > of our simulation data.
> > I hear you guys may have been playing with VR, is that true? Is there
> > anything that we could use/play-with at this point?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >     Alex
> >
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