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Gazebo is what you would use for simulation, rviz is only for displaying data.

However, this only simulates a laser with similar features. It will not simulate a physical hokuyo that you can virtually connect to. So you will not need the hokuyo_node at all. That is only for physical sensors. The interface for a laser is usually only messages.

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