Living and Learning in the Metaverse

In this talk, I would like to take you on a journey to the trenches of VR development, where we will explore how we can harness the power of data visualization to turn data into insights in VR. Concretely, we will investigate two recent research projects I was fortunate to carry out: Training people to travel through a virtual building on IU campus as fast as possible, and exploding anatomical structures in the many organs that make up our body (such as the heart, the lung, and the kidney) and peeking inside them to see cells. On this journey, I would like to show that VR is the ultimate playground.