Summary

DataReal is a concept work for data visualization using VR environment. This work exhibited at London Design Festival as one of Takram works in 2016.A 3D earth is displayed in the virtual space inside the headset and you can see innumerable planes flying around the surface from various distances and angles. Viewers can touch data with their own hands displayed in the virtual space by inserting their hands into a transparent acrylic box.

Device

In the exhibition, we made the force feedback device in parallel with the development of Visualizer. Artificial muscles are placed in several places in the glove fixed in the acrylic case, and touching data on the virtual space feeds the tactile feedback to the user’s hand. By doing this, makes the experience of “touching the data” in the virtual space.