MNET-VR

MNET-VR is a tool designed to allow VR visualization and exploration of Multilayer networks. Multilayer networks are an increasingly popular way to model complex relations between various types of entities and they have been applied to a large number of real-world data sets.

Their intrinsic complexity makes the visualization of this type of network extremely challenging and still an open research area . MNET-VR is the output of a research project developed at the Networks, Data & Society research group of the IT University of Copenhagen with the goal of exploring the potential of Virtual Reality to deal with this type of network visualization.

MNET-VR offers basic functions to visualize and filter multilayer network structures. MNET-VR does not offer, at this stage, the possibility to manipulate the network layout. A proper 3D layout of the network can be obtained through the R package multinet. While its primary goal is to explore multilayer networks, MNET-VR can also be used to visualize single layer networks using igraph and multinet.