Lockheed Martin Corporation
DATA VISUALIZATION USING AN IMMERSIVE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

Abstract:

The formation of a 3D Immersive Cloud Environment (ICE) that can be displayed to a user to form a user interface where the data is easy to understand and interact with by the user. The techniques described herein take a large number of discrete data elements and generates the ICE from the discrete data elements by determining a relative layout placement of the discrete data elements and determining a spherical layout positioning of the discrete data elements. The ICE is then displayed to the user. The techniques described herein permit the efficient display of large amounts of data in an interactive user interface utilizing some or the entire Field of Regard (FoR) rendering space that is available around the user. The displayed data may maintain a relative order, does not require complex hierarchies, and can include spatial cues to efficiently convey information to the user.