VRIA: A Web-based Framework for Creating Immersive Analytics Experiences
Abstract
We present <VRIA>, a Web-based framework for creating Immersive Analytics (IA) experiences in Virtual Reality. <VRIA> is built upon WebVR, A-Frame, React and D3.js, and offers a visualization creation workflow which enables users, of different levels of
expertise, to rapidly develop Immersive Analytics experiences for the Web. The use of these open-standards Web-based technologies
allows us to implement VR experiences in a browser and offers strong synergies with popular visualization libraries, through the HTML
Document Object Model (DOM). This makes <VRIA> ubiquitous and platform-independent. Moreover, by using WebVR’s progressive
enhancement, the experiences <VRIA> creates are accessible on a plethora of devices. We elaborate on our motivation for focusing on
open-standards Web technologies, present the <VRIA> creation workflow and detail the underlying mechanics of our framework. We also
report on techniques and optimizations necessary for implementing Immersive Analytics experiences on the Web, discuss scalability
implications of our framework, and present a series of use case applications to demonstrate the various features of <VRIA>. Finally, we
discuss current limitations of our framework, the lessons learned from its development, and outline further extensions.
P. W. S. Butcher, N. W. John, and P. D. Ritsos, “VRIA: A Web-based Framework for Creating Immersive Analytics Experiences,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 27, no. 07, pp. 3213–3225, Jul. 2021.
doi:10.1109/TVCG.2020.2965109 Presented at IEEE VIS 2020
Bibtex
@article{Butcher-et-al-TVCG-2021,
author = {Butcher, Peter W.S. and John, Nigel W. and Ritsos, Panagiotis D.},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
title = {{VRIA: A Web-based Framework for Creating Immersive Analytics Experiences}},
year = {2021},
volume = {27},
number = {07},
pages = {3213-3225},
month = jul,
doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2020.2965109},
issn = {1077-2626},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}
}
