# Render Live Visualization from Lidar Packet Stream

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/render-live-visualization-from-lidar-packet-stream/11480
**Category:** vtk.js
**Created:** [May 17, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/render-live-visualization-from-lidar-packet-stream/11480 "2023-05-17T11:05:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![knowledge\_monger](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@knowledge\_monger](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/knowledge_monger)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/render-live-visualization-from-lidar-packet-stream/11480/1 "2023-05-17T11:05:13Z")

</div>

I am building a react website that would have a view port for a live view of a packet stream coming from a lidar. This packet stream is being served by a server that runs on the cloud.  
What is the way to connect vtk.js react package to this server source and what format should the client reader be in? I am torn among: HttpDataSetReader, HttpDataSetSeriesReader, ImageStream and PointSet

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Sebastien\_Jourdain](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/sebastien_jourdain/32/100_2.png) [@Sebastien\_Jourdain](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Sebastien_Jourdain)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/render-live-visualization-from-lidar-packet-stream/11480/2 "2023-05-17T15:12:02Z")

</div>

Neither of those. You will have to handle the network yourself and then just build a vtkPolyData.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![knowledge\_monger](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@knowledge\_monger](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/knowledge_monger)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/render-live-visualization-from-lidar-packet-stream/11480/3 "2023-05-17T15:46:45Z")

</div>

Thank you. Will building a vtkPolyData allow me visualize a livestream on my react view port?