BabiaXR: Virtual Reality Data Visualizations for the browser

There are plenty of tools that can analyze data in many ways, but just a few of them try to visualize this data beyond 2D. This is the goal of BabiaXR, a set of front-end modules for 3D VR (virtual reality) data visualization. The visualization part of BabiaXR is based on A-Frame and Threejs, providing a collection of components for creating different kinds of visualizations. Among them there are common ones like bar charts, pie charts, bubbles chart, but now we are moving beyond that, exploring new ways of showing data in 3D. For example, we are working on representing software projects using the city metaphor, showing the evolution of the project as the evolution of a city, with building corresponding to the different files. In this talk, I will do an overview of BabiaXR, showing different examples of the power of WebVR and A-Frame with different visualizations. Then, I will analyze a city corresponding to a well-known FOSS project, showing its evolution in different time snapshots and explaining how the code evolves as the city does. Moreover, there will be examples that the public of the room can try on the fly in their devices, and I will bring a set of two different VR devices to show the examples in an immersive environment after the talk. As A-Frame was developed in part by Mozilla developers, and it is used in some Mozilla services (such as Hubs), I think that it is interesting to show what kind of things, beyond games, can be done with this awesome framework, specifically, related to data analysis and new different ways of data visualization, like the cities that you can build with BabiaXR.