Who Can Participate? We’re seek­ing indi­vid­u­als with 2+ years of VR expe­ri­ence in gaming, con­tent cre­ation, or research to help us under­stand and pre­vent VR-induced motion sick­ness (aka cyber­sick­ness). What’s Involved? Complete a 10–20 minute online survey to share your insights on cyber­sick­ness. All responses are anony­mous and con­fi­den­tial. Incentives Participants have a chance to […]

Bernhard Riecke and his iSpace­Lab are look­ing for sev­eral grad­u­ate stu­dents (PhD or Masters) to join our inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team, specif­i­cally in the fol­low­ing areas: Designing and inves­ti­gat­ing intu­itive inter­faces for embod­ied flying in VR & tele­op­er­a­tion (drones) Reducing motion sick­ness in VR & tele­op­er­a­tion Designing and inves­ti­gat­ing VR expe­ri­ences towards enhanc­ing health and well­be­ing, and more […]

Our project “HyperJumping in Virtual Vancouver: Combating Motion Sickness by Merging Teleporting and Continuous VR Locomotion in an Embodied Hands-Free VR Flying Paradigm” will be show­cased at the 2022 Siggraph in Vancouver, see the project web­site for more infos, and join us at Siggraph 2022 in Vancouver to try it out!

On Wed April 6^th, from 5-7pm, my Graduation Project stu­dents (IAT 499) will show­case their VR projects, fea­tur­ing video trail­ers, fol­lowed by a chance to expe­ri­ence projects in VR and talk to the cre­ators: see http://ispace.iat.sfu.ca/riecke/teaching/iat499/

We are going to present our paper “Virtual Transcendent Dream: Empowering People through Embodied Flying in Virtual Reality” at CHI 2022 in person. The recorded pre­sen­ta­tion talk is now avail­able on YouTube below   learn more about this project to empower people through embod­ied flying in VR.

My team just had the oppor­tu­nity to present three talks at the 8^th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (that ended up being online, not in Rome unfor­tu­nately). Below are videos of the talks: Riecke, B. E., Hashemian, A. M., Adhikari, A., Aguilar, I., Kruijff, E., & Heyde, M. von der. (2021). Simultaneous Locomotion and Interaction in […]

My lab recently had the oppor­tu­nity to present first results from our recent stud­ies at the IEEE VR 2021 Workshop on Finding a Way Forward in VR Locomotion:  How to best move through Virtual Reality if you also have to inter­act at the same time? 7 min talk: 2 min sum­mary   Integrating Continuous and Teleporting VR […]

Join us for our first Twitch-streamed Game Design Showcase on Friday 2:30pm PT to watch, chat, social­ize, talk to instruc­tor & stu­dents, or play your­self! Game topics includ­ing cli­mate change, water crisis, bul­ly­ing, and more. http://ispace.iat.sfu.ca/…/iat312/showcase-9-april-2021/  

A short reflec­tion on how properties/attributes of loco­mo­tion tech­niques in Virtual Reality can turn out to be ben­e­fits or dis­ad­van­tages depend­ing on ones goal, con­text etc. To be pre­sented at this upcom­ing IEEE VR 2021 Workshop. cita­tion: Riecke, B. E., & Zielasko, D. (2021). Continuous vs. Discontinuous (Teleport) Locomotion in VR: How Implications can Provide both […]

We pre­sented our art paper “Body RemiXer: : Extending Bodies to Stimulate Social Connection in an Immersive Installation” online at SIGGRAPH 2020. The pre­sen­ta­tion is avail­able on YouTube below and the full paper is pub­lished in Leonardo 53(4). You can learn more about this project to con­nect people through abstract bodies and touch here or down­load the full […]

Daniel Zielasko and Bernhard Riecke will be orga­niz­ing the 1^st Workshop on Seated VR on Sunday morn­ing March 22, just before the IEEE VR 2020 con­fer­ence. We call for 1–2 page extended abstracts for authors inter­ested in pre­sent­ing a light­ning talk at the work­shop. See our Seated VR work­shop web­site for details. Here’s my own pre­sen­ta­tion from the work­shop , “Towards […]

Emerging Media BC Community of Practice Event on Friday April 12^th 2019: Presentations & VR demos The April 2019 meet­ing (details and RSVP here) will be hosted at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at the SFU Surrey campus. The theme of this meet­ing is “VR 4Good”, based on the 4Good projects of the […]

The Semester in Alternate Realities team is proud to present our stu­dents’ 1^st show­case on their Virtual Reality for Good projects (“VR4Good”) in the Mezzanine on our SFU Surrey campus, on February 1^st from 1:00 — 4:30 pm. These works were cre­ated by stu­dents from dif­fer­ent SFU depart­ments who joined our Semester in Alternate Realities. They are part […]

Together with my col­league Patrick Pennefather we’re cur­rently design­ing and get­ting ready to co-teach a brand-new 15-credit course enti­tled “Semester in Alternate Realities” In this project-based course, par­tic­i­pants will be chal­lenged to develop solu­tions using tech­nolo­gies such as VR (e.g., Oculus Rift, HTC Vive) and immer­sive multi-modal media instal­la­tions. In addi­tion to focus­ing on the co-construction of […]

My TEDxEastVan talk from September 16^th is now finally online! It was enti­tled “Could Virtual Reality Make us More Human” and includes some of our recent research and future direc­tions and exam­ples from my teach­ing on immer­sive envi­ron­ments. Enjoy!

It was such an honour and amaz­ing expe­ri­ence to present at TEDxEastVan on September 16^th! Below are some first pic­tures, the video will be released later in October and will be posted here. My TEDx talk was titled “Could Virtual Reality Make us More Human” and included some of our recent research and exam­ples from my teach­ing on immer­sive environments. […]

I’m hon­oured, exciTED (and a bit ner­vous) to have been selected to present at TEDxEastVan on September 16^th. My TEDx talk will be titled “Could Virtual Reality Make us More Human” and will include some of our recent research and exam­ples from my teach­ing on immer­sive envi­ron­ments. Here are some of the ideas I’ll put forth: Virtual reality […]

For those who couldn’t make it out to our Virtual Reality — Going Beyond show­case from the IAT 445 “immer­sive envi­ron­ments” course, here are some of the project videos. Thanks to all the stu­dents & TA Alex for all the www.canadianpharmacy365.net great work and inspir­ing projects! Forlorn Canvas of Sound Echo Adrift Finding Home The Cave

Here are some pic­tures and project posters from our Virtual Reality — Going Beyond show­case from the IAT 445 “immer­sive envi­ron­ments” course that I taught with lots of great help from TA & PhD stu­dent Alex Kitson. Project http://online-pharmacy.org videos will follow soon… Pictures from show­case: Project posters:

IAT 445 Project show­case on Friday June 23, 2017, 10am-2:30pm On Friday June 23, 2017, the stu­dents from my course on “immer­sive envi­ron­ments” (IAT 445) will be pre­sent­ing their final projects in the Mezzanine on our SFU Surrey campus, from about 10am — 2:30pm. 9 stu­dent teams will show­case their own immer­sive Virtual Reality projects that they devel­oped in the […]

“We went to the Moon as tech­ni­cians, we returned as human­i­tar­i­ans” reflected Edgar Mitchell after his space flight. This describes the overview effect – a pro­found awe-inspiring expe­ri­ence of seeing Earth from space result­ing in a cog­ni­tive shift, lead­ing to a more con­scious and caring view on our planet. Experiencing Earth from space first-hand made […]

Here’s the offi­cial SFU 1-minute cov­er­age of my IAT 445 Immersive Environments course: And below are some of the videos from our Immersive Environments course from our show­case on (IAT 445). For more infos, see Immersive Environments. We’ll offer the course again in Summer 2017 as a com­pact (inter­s­es­sion) course  Parallel Minds The Reef The Painter Retrograde