https://www.nist.gov/featured-stories/eye-fire

BOB - Burn Observation Bubble

Matt Hoehler

"In the Eye of the Fire"

https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/684682/uiconf_id/31013851/entry_id/0_u1ad9idu/embed/dynamic

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-a-raging-forest-fire-surround-you-in-360-degrees/

Crown Fire

Matthew Hoehler/NIST

360-Degree Video in Fire Research

Interacting with 360 Video

• Authoring
• Data display
• Interaction

Making Burn Interactive

• Toolchain
• VR Hardware (Oculus Rift)
• Software WebVR/XR - a-frame
  • WEB WEB WEB
• Development also via glitch

​​(shockingly is not a toy!)

Making Burn Interactive (2)

• Tasks
• Data Wrangling
• Prototype data display
• Synchronize data and video
  • video "currentTime" is main magic
• ​Set up locations of temperature sensors in video (by hand using specialized tool)
• Link locations with data (also by hand coding)
• Added video zoom and rotation capabilities..primary user will be on desktop
• Mouse for desktop / Controllers for VR

Desktop Burn Demo

PRICE fire - comparison with simulation

Kevin McGrattan and Glenn Forney /NIST FDS/Smokeview simulation

Matt Hoehler/NIST

Smithsonian Institution Preparedness and Response in Collections Emergencies (PRICE)

NIST

SI Redefinition - International System of Units

CyberSecurity

The End

 I'm Tired

Acknowledgements

• Matthew Hoehler (NIST fire guy)
• Adam Lenker (NIST SURF)
• Frankie Willard (NIST SHIP)
• Justin Slud (NIST SURF)
• Kevin Chen (NIST SHIP..now Yale)