{"id":83177,"date":"2018-09-30T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/eurovis-2018-maps-and-globes-in-virtual-reality-vr"},"modified":"2018-09-30T21:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:42:55","slug":"eurovis-2018-maps-and-globes-in-virtual-reality-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/eurovis-2018-maps-and-globes-in-virtual-reality-vr","title":{"rendered":"[EuroVis 2018] Maps and Globes in Virtual Reality (VR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9PFp4RWi3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How to solve the problem of which map to use, without distortion.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Check out more details at our EuroVis 2018 paper at: <a href=\"https:\/\/vis.yalongyang.com\/papers\/vr-maps-globes.pdf\">https:\/\/vis.yalongyang.com\/papers\/vr-maps-globes.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four interactive way to present the WORLD: (a) a 3D exocentric globe, where the user\u2019s viewpoint is outside the globe; (b) a flat map (rendered to a plane in VR); \u00a9 an egocentric 3D globe, with the viewpoint inside the globe; and (d) a curved map, created by projecting the map onto a section of a sphere which curves around the user.<\/p>\n<p>Interactive bi-directional transformation between a globe and a map!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E9PFp4RWi3c\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E9PFp4RWi3c<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to solve the problem of which map to use, without distortion. Check out more details at our EuroVis 2018 paper at: https:\/\/vis.yalongyang.com\/papers\/vr-maps-globes.pdf Four interactive way to present the WORLD: (a) a 3D exocentric globe, where the user\u2019s viewpoint is outside the globe; (b) a flat map (rendered to a plane in VR); \u00a9 an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}