Knowledge representation and management in a virtual reality environment

A computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• constructing a three-dimensional graph representing a corpus of knowledge, the three-dimensional graph comprising a set of nodes and a set of connections, a first connection in the set of connections coupling a first node in the set of nodes to at least one second node in the set of nodes;
• presenting visually, in a virtual three-dimensional space representation in a virtual reality (VR) environment, a first view of the three-dimensional graph;
• and
• adjusting, responsive to detecting a first gesture, the first view of the three-dimensional graph, the adjusting resulting in a second view of the three-dimensional graph in the VR environment, the adjusting causing a change in a subset of the set of nodes, the subset of nodes including the first node, wherein the change causes a representation, in the VR environment, of the first node to change to a new representation of the first node, wherein the new representation of the first node is indicative of a different level of detail of the first node from the representation.

A computer system comprising a processor and one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• constructing a three-dimensional graph representing a corpus of knowledge, the three-dimensional graph comprising a set of nodes and a set of connections, a first connection in the set of connections coupling a first node in the set of nodes to at least one second node in the set of nodes;
• presenting visually, in a virtual three-dimensional space representation in a virtual reality (VR) environment, a first view of the three-dimensional graph;
• and
• adjusting, responsive to detecting a first gesture, the first view of the three-dimensional graph, the adjusting resulting in a second view of the three-dimensional graph in the VR environment, the adjusting causing a change in a subset of the set of nodes, the subset of nodes including the first node, wherein the change causes a representation, in the VR environment, of the first node to change to a new representation of the first node, wherein the new representation of the first node is indicative of a different level of detail of the first node from the representation.