Virtual Reality (VR) is moving forward so rapidly that it appears that we will be using that as a primary means for visualizing almost all parameters. The part that is stunning is some of the code that is being developed to enable VR. This uses the existing technology and now uses it in applications where it promises to enable research and not just a good visualization. One such example is Genuage, which enables point cloud data (microscopy, scanning an object, or other such images) to be converted into a form that can be seen in the VR systems. This is very computation intensive and would require one of the newer GPU’s to compute the resulting output.
Amazingly, Guneage is open source and it will be great to see how it is being utilized to compute point cloud -> VR for 3D images, optical images and in-vivo images.
Check out the paper in Nature on BioRxiv as well as the lab in the links below. And click on the youtube video to watch amazing molecular motion inside the cell.
Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.26.000448v1#disqus_thread