There have been some updates to the VR capabilities in ParaView that I wanted to share. They are still in early development but I have put up an executable here if you would like to try them out. They include displaying parts of the PV GUI directly in VR, the ability to add points to a source using…

Wow, this is really great! I like the principle of having the Qt GUI in the renderer opens a lot of opportunities.

Updated with a new executable from here https://data.kitware.com/#item/5d0922c4676794a06e4cf623 The original executable would crash if you pressed some of the buttons before bringing up the PV VR gui.

Looks great @martink . How is the GUI / QT rendered inside the rendered view?

Using the new vtkQWidgetWidget class in VTK (event handling). Which in turn uses a vtkQWidgetRepresentation which uses a vtkQWidgetTexture (the actual drawing). The basic gist is we share a texture between Qt and VTK. Qt paints the texture, VTK then renders it as part of the VR world. This MR has t…

Nice thanks @martink it seems to work well. One caveat is that the QT UI might be too dense for the VR so perhaps we may need a custom interface for interactions in the VR environment.

Those are awesome new features @martink ! Is it possible to trigger an animation from the VR-GUI?

Animation performance (and then exposing the GUI in VR) are definitely on the todo list for this summer/early fall.

Sounds great. Will the VR-feature support clustering/CAVE in future again?

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