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I had seen the Wall Street Journal Roller Coaster above and knew I wanted to make something similar to it. The only scene I had a semblence of an idea about before starting was The Timeline of Women in Science. As much as I love Data Viz, I had no idea where to begin with it and how I was going to make each scene until I’d actually started (this is how the Data Tree came to exist - I was just playing around with Unity objects and wanted to try making a tree). I usually create sketches of my scenes before I make them but the process behind this project didn’t allow that. Scenes like the Music Visualization and a moving 3D node graph were the hardest but I borrowed scripts from asset store that taught me a lot (Thanks Audio Visualizer by Dog eat Dogs and 3D Network Graph scripting by Eric Mourin!)

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The most time consuming part was figuring out how to script different things that I’d never done before. That said, I spent a lot of hours that week working on this - about 50 hours in total. I created 5 scenes: 1) Companies doing VR Data Viz 2) Interact with a 3D graph 3) Watch and Play a Music Visualization 4) A Timeline of Women in Science 5) Explore a 3D network graph. The Data Tree became home base with scenes attached to different branches. I learnt a new skill and also had my own little pun (Data Tree…Data Structures…Get it? This might be a me thing). It made sense right? For my main, central scene, I experimented for the first time with Unity’s Tree Maker and built a tree in the middle of space.

When I started out, I stuck with a space theme because space reminds me of data…and I had a bunch of space prefabs downloaded from a previous project. Take a look at the Unity gameplay video below! ( This project used Unity 2017.1.0p4 and GVR Unity SDK v1.70.0) Night at the Museum: A Data Tree:

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You can check out the full project on github. I decided to do my research on the VR/Data Viz industry and come up with some cool scenes that show how data can be and is being visualized in VR. I’ve been very interested in Data Visualization for a while and think VR is a cool medium for us to interact with Big Data and visualize it in an entertaining way. Suggestions for scenes included a museum, science fair, or gallery-like space to showcase findings.

After conducting research, we had to create a mobile virtual reality experience that displayed our findings in an interesting way to users. It required us to do research on a VR company/technology, or an industry that could be impacted by VR. The project, Night at the Museum, is the final project of an online course that I’ve subscribed to for VR. Data Visualization in Virtual Reality - A VR Demo Project

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