VR Extension of Client Server Type Particle-based Volume Visualization Application

Abstract

Volume rendering is useful for visualizing computer fluid dynamics (CFD) data, and its VR visualization helps to understand complex 3D data. For visualizing large-scale data in remote locations, the remote volume rendering using VR is an important issue in the visualization field. A remote visualization application CS-PBVR can interactively visualize the large-scale datasets in remote locations with volume rendering. In order to extend CS-PBVR into VR-PBVR which is applicable to a head mount display (HMD) Oculus rift S, we added a stereo image generation function, a gesture control function, and a renewed processing flow. VR-PBVR achieved interactive visualization of remotely located test dataset (2M cells) with 90 fps.