physicslibrary/threejs-webxr-sdss

Explore Sloan Digital Sky Survey with Threejs WebXR

Threejs-WebXR-SDSS

Explore Sloan Digital Sky Survey with Threejs WebXR.

Experiment 1

threejs-webxr-sdss.mp4

System Requirements

2019 Oculus Quest tested

Meta Quest Browser (uses a minimal subset of three.js r160)

File threejs-webxr-sdss.html was prototyped on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspberry Pi OS (2023)

Installation

No installation. In a Meta Quest Browser and "Enter VR" in the link below:

https://physicslibrary.github.io/Threejs-WebXR-SDSS/examples/threejs-webxr-sdss.html

To teleport, point palm at floor and pinch index-thumb.
To display wrist position(x y z), pinch index-thumb.
To exit VR, look at left palm, pinch index-thumb.

Credits

This project is inspired by VizlabSDSSTour. Threejs-webxr-sdss.html uses datasets gal_mpajhu.ply and gal_mpajhu.txt from:

https://github.com/xiaohanzai/VizlabSDSSTour

Datasets gal_mpajhu.ply and gal_mpajhu.txt were generated from SDSS public server:

https://skyserver.sdss.org

ThreeJS is used for WebXR:

https://threejs.org/

References (under construction)

Making Threejs-WebXR-SDSS (under construction)