  Static visualizations have analytic and expressive value. However, many
interactive tasks cannot be completed using static visualizations. As datasets
grow in size and complexity, static visualizations start losing their analytic
and expressive power for interactive data exploration. Despite this limitation
of static visualizations, there are still many cases where visualizations are
limited to being static (e.g., visualizations on presentation slides or
posters). We believe in many of these cases, static visualizations will benefit
from allowing users to perform interactive tasks on them. Inspired by the
introduction of numerous commercial personal augmented reality (AR) devices, we
propose an AR solution that allows interactive data exploration of datasets on
static visualizations. In particular, we present a prototype system named VisAR
that uses the Microsoft Hololens to enable users to complete interactive tasks
on static visualizations.
