Rviz is a good visualization, but it focuses on a representing the data in a 3d environment. Rviz, in my experience, represents the interactions of the robot (with its sensors) in the environment, you can draw maps and do a lot of things.
However, rviz does not provide access to the data itself. Long history short, while I can see there is an object with the laser scan at a certain distance, I can not see the actual distance of the object. Sometimes we want more info about the data to see what values are best suited to use in our programs.

btw, thanks eveyrone for your support on this :)

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 10:45 AM Serge Stinckwich <serge.stinckwich@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes very nice viz but why not reusing existing ros viz like rviz
http://wiki.ros.org/rviz ?



On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:
>
> Yes, it looks very cool :-) I can’t wait to see it in action on more complex
> scenarios :-P
>
> On May 24, 2015, at 08:53, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>
> Wow, indeed. This is impressive.
>
> Keep it up.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Wow!
>> And it seems to be relatively fast.
>> Well done!
>>
>> Alexandre
>>
>>
>> > On May 22, 2015, at 10:24 PM, Miguel Campusano <mcampusa@dcc.uchile.cl>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks Alex,
>> > I made a short video with the visualization :)
>> >
>> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12478485/laserscan.ogv
>
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