The RViz tool is an official 3D visualization tool of ROS. Almost all kinds of data from sensors can be viewed through this tool. RViz will be installed along with the ROS desktop full installation. Let's launch RViz and see the basic components present in RViz:
- Start roscore
$roscore
- Start RViz
$ rosrun rviz rviz
The important sections of the RViz GUI are marked and the uses of each section are given as follows:
Figure 6: RViz and its toolbars