VIScon Workshop: DataScience with Spatial Computing
Event start time 12.10.2024 15:30
Event end time 12.10.2024 17:00
This event is only available for VIScon Symposium or Hackathon participants, as well as Helpers! Please sign up for one of these events first!
Did you ever dream about fully immersing yourself in your data, walking through it, grasping it with your hands? Learn with some hands-on exercises the basics of PlotAR. You will be able to try it out on your Smartphone and on VR-Headsets.
Visualizing data is among the most important tools of Data Science, both for exploration and for communication of results. Most people have not experienced this yet: immersive visualisations are amazing. And buzzwords like Metaverse and Spatial Computing have been driving the technology of Augmented and Virtual Reality to become powerful and accessible enough for new and widespread applications - not only carry most of us an AR capable device in our pockets, but also do all the big tech players do provide impressive VR headset.
In this workshop you will learn how to produce immersive 3D data visualizations using the open source package PlotAR (https://github.com/thomann/plotAR/). It facilitates painless connection of your device (AR on smartphones, WebXR on VR-Headsets) and then enables a rapid workflow: plot your data in a Jupyter notebook and it directly updates on your device. In VR the desktop screen can be shared in the immersive setting so you do not have to leave the experience to continue working. Final visualizations can be shared directly as glTF and USDZ with everyone to enable even better communication of results.
It works especially well for inherently 3D data (e.g. geospatial elevation surfaces, flight trajectories) but also for dimension reduction (PCA or UMAP) of e.g. vector embeddings, as well as for 1:1 scales. Also time based data can use animations as an additional dimension. Seeing your data in 3 dimensions in VR is a whole new experience that helps understand it in new ways.
We will provide you with the Jupyter Server Environments so you need a web browser with access to the internet and you will be able to use your Smartphones and Tablets for the immersive part. We also will have some Meta Quest 2 and 3 devices in the workshop so you can explore the data in a fully immersive way. If you bring your own WebXR-enabled equipment (Meta Quest 2/3/Pro or an Apple Vision Pro?) we can together try to set it up on these devices as well.
Additional slots might become available later on. Please use the waiting list!
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Details and Prerequisites
Workshops may require items VIScon cannot provide (e.g., a Laptop) which you have to bring with you or to set up something (e.g., install software) that would otherwise take up a significant chunk of the workshop. You may also need knowledge in certain fields (e.g., how to program in a specific language). All of this information can be found in the following paragraphs, so you can decide whether you want/can participate in this workshop, or not.
What you have to bring to the workshop:
- a laptop
- as many AR/VR devices as you want (Smartphones, Tablets, VR devices)
What you have to do before the workshop:
Nothing.
Knowledge requirements(/recommendations) for this workshop:
- basic python
- basic pandas
FAQ
Why can't I sign up for this workshop?
If you signed up for the main event after the early access deadline (8:00pm, 19th of September), you can sign up from the 22nd of September. But don't worry, we will send you a reminder when the sign up opens. Early access is our way to thank early supporters!
The fine print
By participating you agree that pictures can be taken of you that could be used for VIS-Purposes (VISIONEN, Instagram, etc)
By participating, you agree to adhere by the VIS Code of Conduct
Every participant is responsible for their own insurance
All statements are made without guarantee
In general, there are no refunds
Event organisers
Main event organiser Niklas Tischler