The researchers say they hope the app will modernize scientific publishing.
“By presenting it in a way that people can scroll through and see the entire dataset, we improve the way we communicate research findings,” says Tyler Ard, assistant professor of research in Arthur Toga’s lab at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
The researchers plan to release a companion app that would allow scientists to upload their own material — movies, 3D models or stacks of images — and have them rendered into augmented-reality simulations.