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ClearSpace: an auto-layout view manager for WebXR analytics

Software for VR analytics that automatically organizes and cleans up floating data panels around the user.

A drop-in WebXR SDK that automatically places, declutters, and persists visualization panels around the user — using attention signals to keep the charts that matter in view — so XR analytics developers no longer have to solve view management themselves.

Computer ScienceData Visualization and Analytics
Cognitive-Adaptive Visual AnalyticsIndustrial AR software vendors embedding live data panels into headset workflows (WebXR field-ops dashboards).

Concept

ClearSpace is an embeddable view-management layer for WebXR analytics apps. Developers register charts through one API call (e.g., addPanel(spec)) and ClearSpace owns everything spatial: it finds free, reachable placement in the user's field of view; resolves overlaps and occlusion as charts accumulate; shrinks or stashes panels the user keeps ignoring while anchoring the ones they return to; and persists the layout across restarts and as the user moves through a mobile setting. Any DashSpace-style platform that already renders D3/Vega-Lite charts on 2D planes in AR/XR can add it as a component instead of rebuilding placement logic per app.

Why now

The new lessons-learned paper from the Wizualization project names view management as one of the hard technical challenges of building an XR analytics system [0] — evidence that this is a recurring, unsolved engineering cost rather than a commodity feature. The enabling pieces are demonstrated in the corpus: attention-aware visualization shows a user's perception of a visual representation can be tracked over time and fed back so the visualization reacts to what is being looked at [5], and DashSpace demonstrates a live WebXR platform that renders legacy D3 and Vega-Lite visualizations on 2D planes (with 2.5D extrusion) on handheld and head-mounted AR/XR [2] — a real population of apps that need exactly this layer. Platform-comparison work further indicates WebXR is a viable development choice for immersive analytics [3], giving a browser-delivered SDK a credible distribution path.

Written by GLM · 10 Oct 2026

AI assessment

Backed by 4 papers89

A highly focused developer tool that solves a specific, documented pain point in WebXR analytics by automating spatial layout and attention-based decluttering.

Evidence strength
5/5
The idea directly addresses a 'hard technical challenge' (view management) explicitly cited in the Wizualization paper and leverages the attention-tracking and WebXR rendering capabilities demonstrated in the AAV and DashSpace papers.
Market pull
4/5
Industrial AR vendors (Scope AR, PTC) have a high urgency to reduce engineering overhead for field-ops dashboards where screen real estate and cognitive load are critical.
Novelty & moat
4/5
While other catalog ideas focus on rendering (Spec-to-Space) or control (WandLink), this is the first to focus specifically on the spatial orchestration and dynamic layout logic.
Feasibility
4/5
Building a layout manager as an SDK is feasible given that the underlying rendering (DashSpace) and gaze-tracking (AAV) primitives already exist in prototype form.
Wedge clarity
5/5
The wedge is a sharp, single-purpose SDK for 'auto-layout' that integrates into existing WebXR analytics pipelines without requiring a full platform migration.
Simplicity / focus
5/5
The product is a single, well-defined utility (a view manager) rather than an over-scoped platform.

Scored by Gemma 4 · 10 Oct 2026. Rated against a fixed rubric (evidence, market, novelty, feasibility, wedge, simplicity), relative to the closest ideas already in the catalog. A prior estimate to compare ideas before real-world signal arrives.

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Who benefits

  • TeamViewercompany

    TeamViewer Frontline sells AR workflows to frontline workers; ClearSpace would let their enterprise customers pin live KPI and asset charts around a technician automatically instead of hand-placing panels per use case.

  • Scope ARcompany

    Scope AR's WorkLink platform delivers industrial AR procedures and data; an auto-layout view manager would let procedure steps and live charts coexist in the headset without clutter or custom layout work.

  • PTCcompany

    PTC pairs Vuforia AR with ThingWorx industrial data; ClearSpace would give ThingWorx visualizations automatic, attention-aware placement in AR views.

  • Microsoftcompany

    Microsoft has both Power BI and Mesh immersive spaces; a view-management layer for 3D BI panels is a natural bridge between the two products.

Research it builds on

  1. Attention-Aware Visualization: Tracking and Responding to User Perception Over Time
    Arvind Srinivasan, Johannes Ellemose, Peter Butcher et al. · 2024 · 9 citations
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  2. Is Native Naïve? Comparing Native Game Engines and WebXR as Immersive Analytics Development Platforms
    Peter Butcher, Andrea Batch, David Saffo et al. · 2024 · 8 citations
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  3. DashSpace: A Live Collaborative Platform for Immersive and Ubiquitous Analytics
    Marcel Borowski, Peter Butcher, Janus Bager Kristensen et al. · 2025 · 4 citations
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  4. Don’t Pull the Balrog — Lessons Learned from Designing Wizualization: a Magic-inspired Data Analytics System in XR
    Peter Butcher, Andrea Batch, Panagiotis D. Ritsos et al. · 2023 · 1 citations
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