Sprint Project: Astrophysics Visualisation in VR

The project is founded on a cutting edge cloud-enabled visualisation software platform supporting interactive data exploration and navigation mechanisms for large stellar catalogues. The foundation is based on the game engine Unity. The project aims at introducing VR mechanisms through a specifically designed, developed and tested user friendly UI for head mounted displays providing rich user experiences. We showcase VR technologies, e.g. SteamVR, enabling existing software implementations to retain their core functionality while ported and fully integrated into VR environments.