[yt-users] YT VR Visualisation

Naiman, Jill jill.naiman at cfa.harvard.edu
Mon May 22 17:00:31 PDT 2017


Hi All,

Just FYI - one can also generate points/surfaces with yt and upload them
somewhere like Sketchfab and use their VR mechanisms.

Looking forward to what comes of it!

Cheers,
-Jill

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:14 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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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