Interactive Simulation#

Interactive Simulation covers the frontends and controls used to inspect or manipulate a running simulation. Task-specific commands such as asset preview, workspace visualization, and grasp annotation remain in their own guides or feature sections.

Interaction Frontends#

Frontend

Use it for

Documentation

Native DexSim window

Local camera navigation, selection, keyboard and mouse input, viewer recording, and custom window events.

Native window interaction

Viser browser

Headless or remote scene inspection, camera previews, environment visibility, overlays, and trusted browser controls.

Viser browser visualization

The native window and Viser are mutually exclusive visualization frontends. Both can expose the same registered Gizmo targets.

Interaction Controls#

  • Interactive Gizmos provide cross-frontend transform controls for robots, rigid objects, and cameras.

  • Interactive replay lets users scrub a recorded trajectory from the terminal or the Viser frame slider.