R-03 · HUMAN–COMPUTER INTERACTION

VR & immersive analytics

Perspective grid and volumetric cube · generative visual

VR & immersiveDigital twins

VR-driven data exploration platforms that let researchers and the public step inside their data — from telescope cubes to digital twins of urban environments.

What we do

Stereoscopic rendering
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Head-tracked interaction
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Multi-user environments
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Projects in this area

All projects

VR & immersiveDigital twins
Argo3D
ARGO3D turns real geological sites into immersive virtual worlds

Selected publications

iDaVIE v1.0: A virtual reality tool for interactive analysis of astronomical data cubes (external site)
Alexander Sivitilli, Lucia Marchetti, Angus Comrie, P. Cilliers Pretorius, Thijs (J.M.) van der Hulst, Fabio Vitello, D.J. Pisano, Ugo Becciani, A. Russell Taylor, Paolo Serra, Mayhew Steyn, Michaela van Zyl · Astronomy and Computing · 2026 · DOI 10.1016/j.ascom.2026.101109
GeaVR: An open-source tools package for geological-structural exploration and data collection using immersive virtual reality (external site)
Fabio Luca Bonali, Fabio Vitello, Martin Kearl, Alessandro Tibaldi, Malcolm Whitworth, Varvara Antoniou, Elena Russo, Emmanuel Delage, Paraskevi Nomikou, Ugo Becciani, Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, Mel Krokos · Applied Computing and Geosciences · 2024 · DOI 10.1016/j.acags.2024.100156
Exploring and interrogating astrophysical data in virtual reality (external site)
Thomas H Jarrett, Angus Comrie, Lucia Marchetti, Alexander Sivitilli, Sally Macfarlane, Fabio Vitello, Ugo Becciani, AR Taylor, JM Van Der Hulst, Paolo Serra, Neil Katz, Michelle E Cluver · Astronomy and Computing · 2021 · DOI 10.1016/j.ascom.2021.100502