by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog
With a nudge from Data Elixir by my colleague Lon Riesberg, I read the Reddit Ask-Me-Anything marathon by Tamara Munzner, a respected professor, researcher and author in data visualization. She was asked whether virtual reality (VR) is a valuable tool for education...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 24, 2015 | Blog
The challenge of defining, explaining and evaluating immersion in the context of data worlds is tough. However, a simple example may lend insights. My wife Linda showed me a video of two kittens chasing a mouse, virtually on an iPad. Skip the ad and watch the first 60...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 24, 2015 | Blog
Todd Margolis and I leave this Saturday for Anaheim to present at the Teradata Partners Conference (Sunday Oct 18 at 2:00-2:45pm in 207A/B #3452). The topic is Immersive Analytics: Collaborative Analytics using Virtual Reality with the abstract: Immersive Analytics...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Event
We are starting a series of GoToMeeting chats discussing issues and directions with Immersive Analytics. Limit of 8 persons, so that everyone gets to ask questions and discuss. We will try two chats per week, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 4:00pm ET for...
by Richard Hackathorn | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog
The term “first light” is used from astronomy to denote the first observation from a new telescope. Hence, behold the first pixels from a new website. There is another meaning for this term – the dawn of a new day. Will this website be the dawn of a...
