Winner: Depends

Unity + XR Interaction Toolkit + Normcore: 

Having never used unity before,  I followed all tutorials at a snail's pace and had to do a lot of research whenever anything broke and I had no idea why. I was eventually able to get the data visualization to display with minor collaboration. However, when at one point I had to restart from scratch, I completed essentially what I had done in 3 days in the span of an hour and a half. TLDR: Unity + XR Interaction Toolkit + Normcore might be easier to use if you have had experience with VR development using Unity or maybe even just experience with Unity itself.

DinoVR:

At first, when attempting to use DinoVR to visualize my data, I thought that I had to rebuild the project in order to replace the data and references to the data successfully. Installing MinVR and ensuring that it worked was a pain. Even after realizing I could just edit files from the .zip file in the DinoVR Tutorial , I needed guidance to know how to format the data, which files to change, etc.. DinoVR is quite niche and lacks documentation. Hence, it's very easy to get stuck and helpless when working with it. Unlike Unity where there are likely many sources online that could potentially help you debug issues, DinoVR has no such sources online.

Winner: Depends

Setting up: Users had trouble with both. 

• Either SteamVR failed to work for them when launching DinoVR or they struggled to build the Unity app using SideQuest or enabling developer mode.

Lag:  DinoVR wins. The Unity .apk definitely had more lag.

• For large sets of data, DinoVR definitely wins in terms of having less lag.

Collaboration Features: Normcore (Unity) wins.

• Despite not being able to see when other people move points (this was likely due to the fact that I had two different builds and I wasn't able to test this aspect before the in-class activity), the class unanimously agreed that the multiplayer features that Normcore made possible were preferred over DinoVR's collaborative features. 

Conclusion: DinoVR is certainly good at what it was made to do: visualizing large sets of point cloud data with some collaboration. However, Unity + XR Interaction Toolkit + Normcore has some great potential for incorporating more intuitive user controls and navigation, more deliberate color maps, and more engaging collaboration features. In other words, in terms of customization, Unity + XR Interaction Toolkit + Normcore is definitely work taking a shot at.