A Glimpse into the Future of Collaborative, Immersive Molecular Graphics and Modeling
Over the past few months, we have been hard at work building something we believe will change the way scientists interact with molecular models. It’s an immersive, multiuser platform for molecular graphics and modeling that runs entirely in augmented reality, using nothing more than a web browser and the Oculus Quest 3. It’s amazing to see how this project has come together, and now I want to share a glimpse into what we’ve achieved. See for yourself:
In this demo we show how two (also more) users can manipulate complex molecular structures together in real time. In this example, I flipped a phenylalanine out of the way, clearing space to undock imatinib (Gleevec) from the human ABL kinase. This kind of real-time interaction — moving individual residues and ligands as though we’re physically handling them — is the core of what makes this tool so powerful. And the best part? It’s all happening on a webpage, right inside the web browser that comes in the Oculus Quest 3; and actually other users could follow this in immersive 3D as well with…
