Immersed in Software Structures: A Virtual Reality Approach
Roy Oberhauser, Carsten Lecon · OPUS (Aalen University) · 2017
Program code has been inherently challenging to visualize due to its abstract nature.With the advent of affordable virtual reality (VR) hardware products, the use of VR has become a feasible option for software tools.In this paper, we describe a VR approach for visualizing internal program code structures and evaluate its suitability for selected software development and education tasks.VR efficiency and effectiveness was equivalent to mouse and screen mechanisms, but provided an enhanced user experience for 70% of the subjects, whereas 30% experienced VR sickness.