10.3389/fmars.2019.00644.s003 Noah L. Walcutt Noah L. Walcutt Benjamin Knörlein Benjamin Knörlein Tom Sgouros Tom Sgouros Ivona Cetinić Ivona Cetinić Melissa M. Omand Melissa M. Omand Video_3_Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective.MP4 Frontiers 2019 virtual reality VR oceanography data visualization digital holographic microscopy 2019-10-17 04:22:58 Media https://frontiersin.figshare.com/articles/media/Video_3_Virtual_Reality_and_Oceanography_Overview_Applications_and_Perspective_MP4/9993122 <p>With the ongoing, exponential increase in ocean data from autonomous platforms, satellites, models, and in particular, the growing field of quantitative imaging, there arises a need for scalable and cost-efficient visualization tools to interpret these large volumes of data. With the recent proliferation of consumer grade head-mounted displays, the emerging field of virtual reality (VR) has demonstrated its benefit in numerous disciplines, ranging from medicine to archeology. However, these benefits have not received as much attention in the ocean sciences. Here, we summarize some of the ways that virtual reality has been applied to this field. We highlight a few examples in which we (the authors) demonstrate the utility of VR as a tool for ocean scientists. For oceanic datasets that are well-suited for three-dimensional visualization, virtual reality has the potential to enhance the practice of ocean science.</p>