Overview overview

This notebook demonstrates how to react to user interactions coming from the embedded Rerun Viewer widget. It logs a dynamic 3D point cloud, listens for timeline, time, and selection events, and surfaces them in real time using Jupyter widgets.

You need the separate support package rerun-notebook to use this feature. Typically this is installed using:

pip install "rerun-sdk[notebook]"

Check out the minimal notebook example for a quick start.

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This notebook spins up a colorful point cloud and pipes it into the viewer so you can experiment with callbacks in real time. As the camera, timeline, and selection change, Viewer.on_event emits rich event payloads that we translate into friendly ipywidgets readouts.

Scrub the timeline, pick individual points, or activate entire views to see how each interaction updates the labels—handy for building responsive dashboards or debugging custom tooling around the Rerun Viewer.

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First, install the requirements (this includes Jupyter, the Rerun SDK, and the notebook support package):

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, open the notebook:

jupyter notebook notebook_callbacks.ipynb

Interact with the viewer by scrubbing the timeline and selecting points or views; the widgets underneath will update instantly to mirror the viewer state.