1991
The virtual windtunnel
The virtual windtunnel is the first immersive analytics application. Using it scientists were able to effectively visualize…
This site features the description of several immersive analytics systems that have been presented in 127 scientific papers between 1991 and 2018. It is meant as a companion website to the paper: Adrien Fonnet, Yannick Prié Survey of Immersive Analytics IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019.
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1991
1992
The virtual spacetime
To understand equation of the theory of relativity it is needed to understand the 4-dimensional space composed…
1993
Cosmic Explorer
The Cosmic Explore allows cosmologists to explore the results of their numerical simulation, which simulates galaxy formation…
1993
Scientists in wonderland
The CAVE was an important device for the virtual reality community and multiple test application was run…
1995
The Responsive Workbench
The Responsive Workbench is a new type of VR system using head-tracking and stereoscopic rendering with a…
1995
Virtual Reality Visualization of Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulation
This IA system allows chemist to validate simulation compared to known result in the modelling of drug…
1995
Cosmic Worm
The Cosmic Worm is an immersive analytics system which aim to ease the understanding of highly complex…
1996
Vis5D
Vis5D is an immersive analytics system for studying climate variability on century time scale inside a CAVE….
1996
Dynamic Statistical Graphics in the CAVE Virtual Reality Environment
“Dynamical statistical graphics enables data analysts in all fields to carry out visual investigations leading to insights…
1997
The two-user Responsive Workbench
The two-users responsive workbench was developed to solve an important limitation of its ancestor in the form…
1997
Virtual Data Visualizer
Using a VR HMD display, the Virtual Data Visualizer (VDV) allows user to visualize result of molecular…
1997
Using Dynamic Statistical Graphics in a Highly Immersive Virtual Reality Environment to Understand Multivariate (Spatial) Data
Water chemistry measurements made of wadeable streams in the mid-Atlantic states of USA were used for this…
1997
CAVEvis
The CAVEvis solution aim to provide a 3D visualization to understand complex vector and scalar field to…
1998
RealMol
Molecular dynamics simulations are visualized in RealMol system to support chemist and biochemists in understand the complex…
1998
OceanDiver
OceanDiver has been built to better support understanding of complex oceanographic data by providing collaborative immersive visualization….
1998
Dragon
The Dragon system was built to support military commanders to make good strategic decision by providing information…
1999
VR Gobi
The VR Gobi is used to analyze multi-dimensional dataset using a 3D scatterplot representation inside a CAVE….
1999
The Cubic Mouse
The Cubic Mouse is an interaction tool specifically designed for the immersive analysis of seismic slice, i.e….
1999
Three-dimensional visualization of fluid dynamics on the Responsive Workbench
This immersive analytics system helps engineers to visualize the result of flow field simulation for automobile using…
1999
A Virtual Reality Environment for Macromolecules Exploration
This immersive analytics system is used to support chemists in the analyse of ligand-receptor interaction study. Using…
1999
Software World
Software World is a 3D visualization for virtual reality platform aiming to help programmers understanding software source…
2000
SequenceWorld
SequenceWorld uses genomic data as the input for the analysis. Data is placed only on 2-dimension, i.e. floor,…
2000
Mapping information onto 3D virtual worlds
Focused on defining working metaphor to visualize network information, this work proposed the use of a city…
2000
Immersive graph navigation using direct manipulation and gestures
This immersive analytics system is destined to graph and network data analysis. The representation used is the…
2000
MSVT (Multimodal Scientific Visualization Tool)
The MSVT is an immersive analytics system to analyze the result of computation fluid dynamics simulation. Three…
2000
VFIVE (Vector Field Interactive Visualization Environment)
The VFIVE is an immersive analytics system to visualize result of computational fluids dynamics simulation in a…
2000
TIDE (Tele-Immersive Data Explorer)
The TIDE system allows multiple scientist to work in collaboration around a unique global view displayed on…
2001
An immersive virtual environment for DT-MRI volume visualization applications
Studying changes in white-matter and pre-operative planning for brain tumor surgery are the two applications supported by…
2001
DIVE-ON (Datamining in an Immersed Virtual Environment Over a Network)
DIVE-ON is a visual data mining tool using a CAVE to render 3D scatterplot of sphere. The…
2001
Imovision (IMmersive SOftware VISualizatION)
Imovision is a software visualization tool to support software developers and maintainers to comprehend C++ software system…
2001
ARCHAVE
The ARCHAVE system, using a CAVE as the name indicate, was used by expert archaeologists to investigate…
2001
Interacting with Stock Market Data in a Virtual Environment
Helping analyst trader to discover market direction to ensure the best investment is the goal of this…
2001
3DVDM (3D-Visual Data Mining)
The 3DVDM is a system for the analysis of multi-dimensional data. In their latest version in 2008,…
2002
MolDRIVE
MolDrive is a data visualization of molecular dynamics simulation result using a responsive workbench technology. The particularity…
2002
Wizard
The Wizard system used a HMD to visualize multi-dimensional data in the form of a 3D scatterplot….
2002
Infoticles
Infoticles comes from the contraction of information and particles. Indeed, the principle of this visualization is to…
2004
CaveDataView
CaveDataView is used to analyze multi-dimensional data using a 3D scatterplot representation in a CAVE environment. Each…
2004
Medical applications of multi-field volume rendering and VR techniques
This application supports doctor in the diagnosis of tumors through the visualization of multi-field MRI or CT…
2004
IDP (Immersive Drilling Planner)
IDP allows engineers to plan the drilling path of new oil wells inside an existing mature oilfield…
2004
Particle Flurries
Particle Flurries, which is a way to represent computional fluids dynamics data by showing short curved…
2004
VITA (Visual Interaction Tool for Archaeology)
In archaeology, each team member usually works on a specific section of the excavation site making it…
2005
Genome3DExplorer
Genome3DExplorer is an immersive analytics system to explore the Yeast gene block duplications dataset through a 3D…
2005
Tangible Interfaces for Structural Molecular Biology
This solution combines tangible representation with augmented reality. Molecules are represented directly through tangible object and fiducial…
2006
DocuWorld
DocuWorld give access to bibliographic information to perform query and analyze. Each document is represented as a…
2006
VRMiner
VRMiner is part of the visual data mining field, using an immersive analytics system composed of a…
2007
The benefits of immersion for spatial understanding of complex underground cave systems
Underground cave systems are complex geometry to understand on 2D screen but are easier to analyze using…
2007
A human-centered interface for visual data exploration
This application is similar to a library browser using a 3D stereo screen, a tablet, and a…
2008
Exploring dimensionality reduction of animal flight kinematics in an interactive virtual reality setting
Using a FishTank VR, this system allows biologists to observe bat flight motion data. The main motion…
2008
MedVis (Medical Visualizer)
MedVis uses volume rendering techniques to construct 3D mesh from CF and MRI datasets. The resulting meshes…
2009
VR-Based Multi-View Visualization of Time-Dependent Simulation Data
This immersive analytics system represents multiple 3D scatterplot, each using a different combination of attribute on the…
2009
CDF (Concurrent Design Facility)
The CDF is a system to support analysis of earthquake data in Japan to predict future earthquake…
2010
Discrete Spatiotemporal Data in Space-Time Cubes
This system used disease occurrence data to help understanding the epidemic behaviour of multiple diseases. For each…
2011
Human Brain Functional MRI and DTI Visualization with Virtual Reality
This system uses a 3D stereo screen to visualize the reconstructed 3D brain mesh from DT and…
2011
CAVE-SOM (Self Organizing Map)
CAVE-SOM uses self organizing map dimensionality reduction to directly display the resulting 3D SOM inside a CAVE….
2012
Interactive Slice WIM
The Interactive Slice WIM combines 3 different views to analyze anatomic data. The vertical screen proposed a…
2012
SkyscrapAR
SkyscrapAR helps software programmers to understand the java source code using a building metaphor displayed using augmented…
2013
A Lightweight Tangible 3D Interface for Interactive Visualization of Thin Fiber Structures
Thin Fiber structures can be visualized through this system and interacted through a unique 3D interface….
2013
ArtifactVis2
ArtifactVis2 is an immersive analytics to support archaeologist to centralize and analyse their findings of an excavation site….
2013
Visualizing Large, Heterogeneous Data in Hybrid-Reality Environments
This system shows a 3D reconstruction of the Lake Bonney where position of the sonde used to…
2014
Concept and workflow for 3D visualization of atmospheric data in a virtual reality environment for analytical approaches
This immersive analytics system presents climate data from different compartment, i.e. atmosphere, surface, and soil, inside a…
2014
iViz
iViz proposed a 3D scatterplot representation to analyze multi-dimensional data. Each axis of the cartesian coordinate system…
2014
Towards the Holodeck: Fully Immersive Virtual Reality Visualisation of Scientific and Engineering Data
This system is an immersive visualization tool for NeuCube, a 3-dimensionnal spiking neural network. Each neuron is…
2015
Bema
The Bema system allows ancient Greek rhetoric and oratory scholar to obtain insights into political assemblies at…
2015
ExploreViz
ExplorViz shows the structure of software in a visual manner using an HMD for display and a…
2015
Improving Big Data visual analytics with interactive virtual reality
6.000 tweets from the MIT campus from October 2013 to February 2014 as been used as…
2015
Immersive visualization for materials science data analysis using the Oculus Rift
Exploratory visualizations of crystal structure and neutron scattering datasets is the goal of this immersive analytics system….
2015
TaggerVR
TaggerVR use a classical representation of 2D scatterplot using a VR HMD focusing on the freedom of…
2016
3DScover
3DScover helps geneticists analyze genomic dataset inside a CAVE environment. The solution proposes 3 2D visualization on…
2016
GBR Tour (Great Barrier Reef)
The GBR Tour is an application to sensitize population on the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef….
2016
Interdisciplinary immersive analytics at the electronic visualization laboratory
Multiple systems of immersive analytics are presented in this work. One called the Dark Sky project focus…
2016
Simulation exploration through immersive parallel planes
Parallel plane visualization is used for this immersive analytics system using a CAVE as the technology for…
2016
Immersive Analytics for Multi-objective Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE) Models
Climate model are very complex and showing their result in 2D, therefore only accounting for the impact…
2016
Mobile Touch Navigation in a Stereoscopic Viewing Environment for 3D Data Exploration
To support structural molecular biology this system used a 3D stereo screen with head tracking. The visualization…
2016
Immersive solutions for future Air Traffic Control and Management
This immersive visualization system is proposed to investigate the formation of unusual stack of plane a collaborative….
2016
BeTheData
BeTheData introduces the concept of “datatar” coming from the combination of the word data and the word…
2016
Enabling interactive scientific data visualization and analysis with see-through hmds and a large tiled display
This immersive analytics system combines a wall display with an augmented reality headset to explore flow field…
2016
Gaze-directed Immersive Visualization of Scientific Ensembles
Multiple 2D sprite representing the forecast of oil transport in the nearshore after the destruction of the…
2017
Into the mixed reality data sphere : mapping user’s movements to data exploration tools
This immersive analytics system uses the user body position as the main input for interaction using a…
2017
Immersive Visualisation of Big Data for River Disaster Management
To support prevention of flood, this immersive analytics system proposes an immersive representation of data collected over…
2017
ARSAM (Augmented Reality Simulator for Advanced Manufacturing)
ARSAM is built to support optimisation of factory layout. Indeed, ARSAM work in conjunction with usual 2D…
2017
buenoSDIAS
BuenoSDIAS is an immersive analytics system dedicated towards graph analysis using the usual representation of sphere for…
2017
Obelisk-xR
Obelisk-xR has been built to enhance the education process by giving access to the rich database linked…
2017
NeuroCave
NeuroCave helps neuroscientists to explore structural and functional connectomes describing the interconnectivity between brain regions. To do…
2017
ImAxes (Immersive Axes)
ImAxes allows to explore multi-dimensional dataset in virtual reality by proposing a new paradigm where user…
2017
I-flight
I-flight is used to visualize the result of simulation of honey bee flight data completed by real…
2017
GeoVisor
GeoVisor let data scientists explore multi-dimensional dataset by offering the possibility of multiple data visualization. Indeed, datapoint…
2017
More Than Blips on the Radar : Exploring Immersive Visualization for Maritime Decision Making
The main goal of this immersive analytics system is to help fighting against maritime smuggler by making…
2017
A gesture system for graph visualization in virtual reality environments
This immersive analytics system is dedicated to support understanding of the human brain. Indeed, each node represents…
2017
An Immersive System for Exploring and Measuring Medical Image Data
This immersive analytics system helps doctor visualize CT and MRI body scan results. Multiple views are available…
2018
IDEA (Immersive Data Exploration and Analysis)
The IDEA system permit user to explore traces dataset collected from a video annotation of an e-learning…
2018
Tangible Braille Plot
The tangible Braille plot is a supportive system to analyze movements of entities, e.g. people or vehicles,…
2018
HeloVis
HeloVis is a radar signal IA tool that allowed signal intelligence operators to determine the source of…
2018
ART (Augmented Reality above the Tabletop)
ART allows exploration of multi-dimensional dataset through the combination of multiple 2D scatterplot and parallel plane coordinate….
2018
DebugAR
DebugAR is meant to help programmers debug distributed system. To do so executions traces of distributed system…
2018
Origin-Destination Flow Maps in Immersive Environments
This immersive analytics system allows user to analyze air traffic trajectories over earth map using virtual…