Designing a user centric VR UI/UX for scientific visualisation

Scientific visualization (scivis) is an important tool for all scientific domains that aims to reveal the most salient information out of raw data and display it in an intuitive way so that users can make decisions based on their data characteristics. Virtual reality (VR) is a dedicated technique to render three-dimensional data as a real world interactive and immersive scene. ParaView [2] is a leading open-source scivis software providing many tools for data analysis and visualization. ParaView has been providing VR support for some time now but it has been improved greatly in the last few years, based on feedback from users in the industry and academia alike, especially in regards to menu interactions and collaboration. This work brings insight into the new VR interface and how it provides clear and intuitive access to features and how collaborative VR can be an integral tool for scivis in the future.