iSpace Research Lab

Here’s a record­ing of the final 5-min stu­dent project pre­sen­ta­tions from a course that Bernhard was teach­ing in Spring 2012 at SIAT, enti­tled “Cognition, Learning, and Collaboration, and the Craft of Research and Writing for Publication (IAT812)”. Enjoy!

Earlier this month, Salvar Sigurdarson had his first ever con­fer­ence talk at the IEEE Virtual Reality con­fer­ence in Santa Ana, California. There, he pre­sented a paper he authored, called “Can phys­i­cal motions pre­vent dis­ori­en­ta­tion in nat­u­ral­is­tic VR?” It went pretty well.

We recorded his talk for pos­ter­ity, so you can check it out here:

I’m quite excited and hon­oured (and did I men­tion ner­vous?) about the oppor­tu­nity to give a short TEDyou pre­sen­ta­tion at TEDactive 2012 in Palm Springs! Title will be “Moving you in and through vir­tual real­ity”. After that I’ll def­i­nitely need to relax in the Sonic Cradle — get it ready Jay.

one of the demos shown during my TEDactive talk:

You con­trol the Virtual Reality sim­u­lated motion by simply lean­ing into the direc­tion of intended travel.

Jay Vidyarthi  and Bernhard Riecke will be demon­strat­ing the Sonic Cradle at TEDactive 2012 in Palm Springs!

It’s going to be a jam packed week, but we will try to keep the system up and run­ning for as long as pos­si­ble.  Come visit us and take a few min­utes to pacify your mind and solid­ify the inspi­ra­tion you’re sure to get from this year’s ever-fantastic TED talks.

Interested in con­tribut­ing to world-class research at the inter­sec­tion of Informatics, Psychology/Cognitive Science, Human Factors/HCI, and Virtual Reality in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary multi-national team? We’re cur­rently look­ing for bright and moti­vated PhD/MSc stu­dents to join the iSpace lab at the School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT), Simon Fraser University in the greater Vancouver region in beau­ti­ful British Columbia, Canada. See http://ispace.iat.sfu.ca/contact/ for details.

The iSpace Crew recently gave three pre­sen­ta­tions at the SIAT research col­lo­quium, and we’d like to share them with you. Enjoy!

Bernhard Riecke is giving a brief intro to the iSpace lab & intro­duc­ing his students

Salvar Sigurdarson on “Can phys­i­cal motions pre­vent dis­ori­en­ta­tion in nat­u­ral­is­tic VR?”

Daniel Feuereissen on “Can Self-Motion Illusions facil­i­tate spa­tial Orientation?”

Jay Vidyarthi on “Are you immersed? Characterizing “immer­sion” across lit­er­a­ture, art, and inter­ac­tive media”

Below is a short intro video of the iSpace lab. Thanks Daniel for the video-editing!

We recently took a few pic­tures of the iSpace immer­sive video-projection setup with the Gyroxus motion chair as an input device: lean­ing into the direc­tion you want to move in the vir­tual envi­ro­ment con­trols the sim­u­lated motions. We used a Polhemus 6DOF track­ing system instead of the built-in track­ing for more pre­cise motion control.

Driving through a pro­ce­du­rally gen­er­ated vir­tual city using Gyroxus motion chair: 

The SFU-Surrey open house video was just released — it fea­tures the new iSpace sim­u­la­tor (at 1:48, thanks Andrew for the nice pitch!)

Below are some more pic­tures from the open house day — thanks to all who helped with it, it was a great success!