Open3d: open3d.visualization.draw_goemetries function not working on Google Colab

[abhineet99]

open3d.visualization.draw_goemetries function not working on Google Colab.

I installed open3d on Google Colab using pip in python3. But this function is not working , it is not showing any error but doesn't produce any output, while other functions still do there job.
I think this function returns the visualisation in a new window which is not supported in the browser, any way around this?

[JackLangerman]

I believe this is a headless rendering issue related to #940 #972 .

You may be able to work around using jupyter visualization for some applications:

http://www.open3d.org/docs/tutorial/Basic/jupyter.html

Hopefully headless gets figured out soon though....

[abhineet99]

When i do visualizer.show() it just says "JVisualizer with 1 geometries" and displays nothing.
Mozilla 67.0.4 on Ubuntu 18.04.

[Magnetar99]

I see the same "JVisualizer with 1 geometries" but nothing to display?

[omshinde]

Facing the same issue on Google Colab!
Something like %open3d inline similar to %matplotlib inline using interactive magic functions would be a great help.
Thanks!

[SapphireEmbers]

Any progress here?

[JihongJu]

I got the same issue on Kaggle. Nothing was displayed with visualizer.show()
To give a bit more information here's the error messages:

Update

I managed to get it working by installing open3d before running the notebook. And it apparently helps load the jupyter widgets.

[dinarkino]

The same problem in colab. Got this error
RuntimeError: [Open3D ERROR] GLFW Error: X11: The DISPLAY environment variable is missing0;m

JVisualizer shows nothing

[Thomseeen]

Can't get it to work in combination with Google Colab either. Using the JVisualizer nothing is printed at all while the error Error has occurred while trying to update output. Error: "Widgets module open3d is not supported" is printed in the dev-tools console.

[JayLIU0911]

Same problem here in jupyter notebook. Any update?

[rjsgml5698]

Any update?

[robotsir]

I have the same issue

[comingtoyoulive]

I have the same issue, but what I know is only happening 'RuntimeError: [Open3D ERROR] GLFW Error: GLX: Forward compatibility requested but GLX_ARB_create_context_profile is unavailable'(MAY BE headless ISSUE)

[Dource]

I have the same issue. Get no output with Google Colab and jupyter Notebook

[Jaykob]

Same issue here...

[germanros1987]

thank you for your "kind" words @pankajbadatia . Could anybody provide the version of Open3D they are using?
@yxlao could you take a look at this?

[hahakid]

@germanros1987
open3d 0.10.0.1
o3d.visualization.draw_geometries([pcd]) #works

visualizer = JVisualizer()
visualizer.add_geometry(pcd)
visualizer.show()

show nothing & return JVisualizer with 1 geometries

[jousefm]

Any progress here? Having the same issue. No visualization at all.

[tairch]

same problem here, JVisualizer returns nothing

[EricWiener]

Same problem here as well

[Arnavdas]

same issue, hope in 2021 someone gives a look

[richardagalvez]

Same issue here. By the looks of it, Open3D has been completely abandoned and another library should be sought out for work in a jupyter environment. ipygany looks promising but I have not worked with it before. If anyone has any suggestions on working with 3D data in jupyter lab / notebooks, please comment, cheers