Daden Blog Datascape as a 3D/VR Dataviz Publishing Hub

Ever since we decided to move away from a bespoke Oculus Rift interface for Datascape and instead concentrate on a WebGL interface a whole bunch of opportunities have opened up. One of the benefits of doing WebGL for VR is that it gives us web access from any device to Datascape visualisations almost for free - even if you don't have a VR headset. But in the last week or so we've realised that we can use the same export feed from Datascape to generate the code to visualise the data in a whole range of different environments. For the moment there are 2 we are focussing on, but I'm sure more will follow.The first is our own Fieldscapes. A Fieldscapes exercise is defined in XML, so we can use the data export from Datascape to generate the data points in Fieldscapes. Whilst you could visualise the data in an open field, you could also visualise it in something like the "activities space" in Daden Campus. All of sudden you've got something very close to our old "Datascape 0" virtual war-room in Second Life. And since Fieldscapes is multi-user you can bring colleagues into the space to examine and discuss the data, and since Fieldscapes does support Oculus Rift (and Android phones, and soon Cardboard, and maybe iOS) then some or all of the participants can be in VR as well!The second is AltSpaceVR.