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Opened 7 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#1111 closed defect (fixed)
VR meeting moving molecule moves other person's user interface pane
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Tom Goddard | |
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| Priority: | moderate | Milestone: | |
| Component: | VR | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Notify when closed: | Platform: | all | |
| Project: | ChimeraX |
Description
On May 7, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Nicolas Floquet <nicolas.floquet@…> wrote:
dear tom,
we tried it this afternoon with my colleague Maxime LOUET in copy of this email. I must say it was already a great experience ... we used two different VR compatible stations in the same room ; the first one with two GTX1080 and HTC vive, the second one with one GTX1080Ti and the oculus rift. We were able to see each other avatar during the process and show things to eachother with a good precision using the virtual hands (cones). We showed this to biochemists of the lab that find the demonstration quite concluding.
Really it is already a great job, congrats ! during this first test we noticed some things you will perhaps find useful for your future improvement :
(1) the communication between the two working stations was quite slow, as the molecular representation was a little bit lagging when one or the other participant moved the molecule (rotations/translations). Was perhaps due to our installation ... Another point you could find relevant : when user 2 move the molecule, the VR menu of user 1 (used to change representation, interact with molecule, etc ...) is also moved ...
Some other questions :
(1) is it already possible to select some part of the molecule in VR without using the command line and the keyboard ?
(2) Do you think we could interface chimeraX with a force field/software like gromacs so that modifications brought to the structure could be minimized in realtime (using for example interactive MD protocols)
(3) do you plan to use vocal recognition for selection of part of the molecules (like : select/chain/A, color RED). Would be so easy for a beginner to change representation without requiring access to menus.
(4) Do you think chimeraX could open trajectories of quite large systems, like those we are interested in : proteins in membranes and permit their vizualisation in VR mode ?
(5) could we imagine to use chimearX to visualize coarse-grained models (like that of MARTINI force field).
i have (and maxime probably too) many other questions about it but i keep those for another email (dont want to bother you :-) too much once).
Nicolas FLOQUET
Fixed motion of user interface panel.