Towards a Collaborative Experimental Environment for Graph Visualization Research in Virtual Reality

Abstract

Graph visualization benefit from virtual reality (VR) technology and a collaborative environment. However, implementing collaborative graph visualizations can be very resource consuming and existing prototypes cannot be reused easily. We present a work-in-progress collaborative experimental environment for graph visualization research in VR, which is highly modular, contains all fundamental functionality of a collaborative graph visualization, and provides common interaction techniques. Our environment enables researchers to create and evaluate modules in the same environment for a wide range of experiments.