[IRL x ispace] Subtle Sensing workshop + Open Lab
For the week 17–21 April, The IRL will host visiting researchers from the iSpaceLab from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. The iSpaceLab have expertise in designing and investigating VR experiences that make a positive impact on individuals and society.
During this workshop we will investigate the range of perceptual affordances available in simulated virtual environments. Specifically, we will consider the extent to which different aesthetic and design paradigms enable participants to perceive more subtle aspects of simulated ‘realities’ – e.g., those which arise through real-time scientific and molecular simulations.
The ‘Subtle Sensing’ workshop will include an autoethnographic study to investigate the perceptions which arise as participants engage with the VR environments being developed within the IRL as part of the NANOVR project. This workshop will enable co development of a new hybrid glove for ‘touching’ and ‘guiding’ real-time scientific simulations, in order to expand the perceptual richness available to scientists and researchers within VR. In addition, we will be running a proprioception workshop and an Open Lab, where we will be inviting CiTIUS researchers to join us for an evening of VR demos and interactivity!
At the Open Lab we will showcase several of the interactive and immersive experiences designed by our labs as a way of starting conversations about how we interact with + touch digital worlds, and how these strategies might furnish researchers with new ways to understand otherwise invisible microscopic and molecular realities
Acitivities
Weds - International Isness-D [distributed] VR session for Autoethnography study
Thurs - Proprioception workshop
- OPEN LAB evening 6-8pm @CiTIUS. Please email through the contact form if you would like to join us
Fri - 'Hybrid Glove' making workshop - adapting our Vive/Index glove to also be compatible with Oculus