Heatmaps

 

All Liquid Cinema players record the viewer’s gaze four times a second. After the viewer finishes watching a video this gaze data is sent back to our servers and aggregated into a heatmap. Heatmaps are made of millions of gaze points which are constantly updated. The Heatmap Viewer that comes with the Liquid Cinema platform visualizes this data by superimposing this data on the video to see how the gazes are distributed over time. The red areas of the heatmap indicate the areas with the most gazes.

View a live heat map from our  Edge of Space Project. (Produced with KonceptVR /courtesy ARTE.)
 

Launch Live Heat Map – Chrome Browser Only

The Heatmap Viewer Interface

 

  • 1

    Platform Selector

    Select for which platforms to view data.

  • 2

    Mode Selector

    Select VR mode or non VR mode or both.

  • 3

    Heat Map Scale

    This scale correlates the colour of the heatmap to the number of gazes.

  • 4

    Gaze Values

    This displays the total amount of gaze points collected for this video.

  • 5

    Gaze Graphs

    This graph shows the number of gazes over time.

  • 6

    Cross Hairs

    Check to see crosshairs that show the dominant view (the point with the most gazes) on any given frame.

  • 7

    Gaze Count

    Enabling Gaze Count shows the number of gazes per quadrant over the entire image.

  • 8

    Scale Slider

  • 9

    Enhance Weaker Slider

    This slider makes the weaker data more visible in the heatmap.

  • 10

    Minimum % Slider

    This slider sets the minimum number of gazes per quadrant and is useful for decluttering the heatmap of outlying values.

  • 11

    Opacity Slider

    This slider changes the opacity of the heatmap for either better viewing of the heatmap or better viewing of the underlying video.

  • 12

    Flat / 360 Toggle

    This toggles wether the heatmap is seen in spherical of flat mode.

  • 13

    Full Screen Button

    This button takes the interface fullscreen.

Using Local 360 Videos

If you have the local offline video files of a project for which a heatmap exists, you can drag the project folder on top of the heatmap player for offline viewing and instant results.