HTC Vive One of our members had a Vive We additionally used Vive trackers for our globe controller in the beginning.
Oculus Quest We used three Quests in the team
Oculus Rift S One of our members had a Rift S.
UIltraleap Leap Motion We had access to two leap motions for hand tracking.
Ultraleap Stereo IR 170 Later we also used this for higher quality hand tracking
Sphere
Plastic Sphere A 16 mm plexiglass sphere was bought from a crafts store to have a vessel for our tracking solution.
3D printer We 3d printed the bracket to hold a controller in the sphere.
API's
World Bank Data This was an ideal API to test the visualization of demographic and economic data with global coverage https://data.worldbank.org
Rest Countries This was the first API we connected to our globe. It delivers basic information about a country like population or land area https://restcountries.com
OpenSky Network We used this API to collect information about live flight data as well as airport connections https://opensky-network.org
Communication
Discord Between the team members we used Discord for its easy accessibility and usability.
Mattermost The online communication with our supervisors
Version Control
FKI Gitlab We used the internal version control system of “Forschungsgruppe Informations- und Kommunikationsanwendungen".
HTW Gitlab To upload our project we used the HTW Gitlab.
Other
Mural For brainstorming, writing down ideas and planning workflows we used Mural
Google Docs For research, presentations and internal documentations we used Google Docs.
