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Oculus creator: “If you can perfectly simulate reality, why do you need to actually go see people in real life?”

[From Gamespot, where the story includes a 1:40 minute video news report]

Palmer Luckey

Oculus creator: “If you can perfectly simulate reality, why do you need to actually go see people in real life?”

Palmer Luckey says VR needs to incorporate touch-based feedback to further the feeling of immersion and wonders if some day we’ll think it’s wasteful to actually get on a plane to meet people in the real world.

by Eddie Makuch on April 15, 2014

Virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift must expand beyond visuals and allow for touch-based human-to-human interaction, creator Palmer Luckey said in a new interview from PAX East in Boston, Mass. All of this is in the way of creative a fully immersive experience that makes you feel like you’re really in a “virtual reality,” Luckey said.

“[Virtual reality], it can’t just be a visual thing.… read more. “Oculus creator: “If you can perfectly simulate reality, why do you need to actually go see people in real life?””

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Call: Virtual Reality Summer School, Virtual Reality European Meeting

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Virtual Reality Summer School
25 – 29 august 2014, Biarritz, France

http://VR-SummerSchool.estia.fr

Contact: j.cieutat@estia.fr

Deadline for registration: 30th June 2014

Objectives

The objective of this summer school is to propose a privileged moment for stimulating discussions and exchanges around Virtual Reality. Meetings will be organized around talks, workshops and social events.

As for every summer school, PhD students are invited to come to present the progresses of their research works, challenges and corresponding solutions they put forward. We also encourage Master students to participate.

Within these privileged moments, we hope to be able to stimulate European collaborations around Virtual Reality leading to new European projects proposals (Horizon 2020).

Overview

We observe several evolutions of research axes of scientific community in Virtual Reality.

Among these evolutions, 3D worlds have become very realistic nowadays and a lot of research has been focused on 3D interaction these last years, with specific interests in natural user interfaces and tangible interfaces.… read more. “Call: Virtual Reality Summer School, Virtual Reality European Meeting”

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MisTable uses water vapour planes for interactive display screens

[From TechWeekEurope UK, where the story includes a 3:27 minute video]

MisTable fog display screen

Research Team Uses Water Vapour Planes For Interactive Display Screens

A Bristol University team has produced “touch-enabled” images that float in the air on a cloud of vapour

On April 14, 2014 by Eric Doyle, ChannelBiz

Technology that could bring R2D2’s projection of Princess Leia in Star Wars a step closer has been developed by a University of Bristol research team. The MisTable uses a set of vapour curtains as interactive projection screens to display computer images.

The team will present their development at the prestigious ACM CHI 2014 to be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre between 26 April and 1 May by the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM).

Mist information

Attendees at the computer-human interface (CHI) conference will see how the table uses two fans above and below the edges of a tabletop display to create thin walls of mist which are used as screens.… read more. “MisTable uses water vapour planes for interactive display screens”

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Call: ACE 2014 – Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACE 2014

11th ADVANCES IN COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
Incorporating 9th International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA)

Funchal, Madeira
11-14 November, 2014

http://www.ace2014.info

ACE – the leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of entertainment computing is inviting the submission of papers, posters, creative showcases, and workshop proposals to its 11th conference to be held in Funchal, Madeira, 11-14 November, 2014.

Submission deadlines:

Papers:   May 12, 2014
Workshops:  May 12, 2014
Creative Showcases:  June 2, 2014
Posters:   July 14, 2014

We solicit submissions on a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to:… read more. “Call: ACE 2014 – Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference”

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‘Leviathan’ project explores future of immersive storytelling

[From The Creators Project blog, where the post includes a 7:00 minute video and many more images]

Audience experiences Leviathan at CES Keynote

[Video] Leviathan: The Future Of Storytelling

By The Creators Project — Apr 9 2014

Considering a future wherein cinematic experiences are participatory, audiences would interact with narratives as if they were concurrently films and video games. Enter: “Leviathan,” an experimental leap forward in cinematic technique that heralds such an evolution:

This past January, in collaboration with Intel Labs, the USC School of Cinematic Arts World Building Media Lab unveiled “Leviathan,” at CES 2014’s Intel CEO Keynote speech. As the audience used Intel Ultrabooks and tablets to simultaneously control flying jellyfish creatures that swam alongside the eponymous augmented reality behemoth, Leviathan soared off the screen and into the crowd, yielding an as-of-yet unparalleled mixture of film and gaming experience. “Immersive storytelling” doesn’t even begin to describe it.… read more. “‘Leviathan’ project explores future of immersive storytelling”

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Call: Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context – Workshop in conjunction with MobileHCI ’14

Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context
Workshop, in conjunction with MobileHCI ’14

http://www.urban-context.eu
organisers@urban-context.eu

September 23, 2014, Toronto, Canada

Call for Papers

Mobile technology offers significant potential to connect users to their immediate geographic environment. Yet existing approaches to doing so are largely visual, which can isolate users from that environment, and utilitarian, such as directing a user to a destination or showing nearby coffee shops as a list. The recent rise of geo-social media (images, text updates and check-ins) has offered new ways to support contextualising the environment and connecting users with it. Work such as PULSE (that presents geographically nearby tweets as audio), Columbus (that allows the rediscovery of photographs taken in the nearby environment) and HotCity (that uses check-in data to create context-sensitive heatmaps to show tourists the socially active areas of a city) have shown how this media can be used to provoke and engage users with the environment through mobile technology, without isolating them from that environment.… read more. “Call: Discovery, Exploration and Understanding of Urban Context – Workshop in conjunction with MobileHCI ’14”

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‘The Future of Travel 2024’ report envisions ‘digital travel buddies,’ VR ‘try before you buy’ visits, and more

[From E&T (Engineering and Technology Magazine); more coverage is available from Travolution; the first part of the Skyscanner report is available at skyscanner2024.com]

Digital travel buddies in Skyscanner report

[Image: Wearable technology could provide immediate translations for travellers and suggest holiday destinations]

Virtual reality trials for future holiday makers

Future holidaymakers will make virtual reality visits to potential destinations and take advantage of semantic search to choose holidays, according to a new report

10 April 2014
By Edd Gent

The first of a three-part series of reports from travel comparison site Skyscanner called ‘The Future of Travel 2024’ was revealed at an event in London today, looking at what leisure travel will be like in 10 years’ time.

The report predicts the rise of what it calls ‘Digital Travel Buddies’, a virtual companion which uses artificial intelligence to accurately suggest and book suitable trips for the traveller.… read more. “‘The Future of Travel 2024’ report envisions ‘digital travel buddies,’ VR ‘try before you buy’ visits, and more”

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Call: Irish HCI 2014

Call for Papers: Irish HCI 2014

This year the Insight Centre for Data Analytics will be hosting the 8th Annual Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) conference in the Helix, Dublin City University on the 1st and 2nd September 2014.  iHCI is Ireland’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human Computer Interaction bringing together practitioners, academics, researchers and students from a wide variety of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. We also welcome perspectives from design, architecture engineering, planning, social science and creative industries among other disciplines.

The iHCI website has now launched:  http://ihci2014.dcu.ie/

TOPICS

The conference theme is “Shaping our Digital Lives” which reflects how technology influences our home, work, play, and life, and the challenges in designing and deploying innovative and collaborative technologies which shape our lives.… read more. “Call: Irish HCI 2014”

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Land Rover’s new camera technology lets drivers see ‘through’ the car’s hood

[From Yahoo! Tech, where the story includes a 0:54 minute video; more information is available from Land Rover]

Land Rover invisible bonnet concept

Land Rover invisible bonnet view

Land Rover’s New Camera Technology Lets Drivers See ‘Through’ the Car’s Hood

Relaxnews/Yahoo Tech Apr 9, 2014

For years, different kinds of cameras have acted as smart mirrors for vehicles, helping drivers better see what’s happening behind them. Now luxury SUV maker Land Rover is expanding on that idea, incorporating a camera under the hood to help drivers better see what’s happening right in front of them.

The technology is called the “Transparent Bonnet,” and it overlays a camera feed onto the inside of the vehicle’s windshield, making it simple to see what would normally be the unseeable space below and just in front of the hood. This means that, unlike most vehicle camera tech of today, the driver needn’t look anywhere but straight out the front window to observe what’s happening in the sight of the cameras.… read more. “Land Rover’s new camera technology lets drivers see ‘through’ the car’s hood”

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Call: Workshop on “Sonic Information Design: Framework, Approach, and Application” (at ICAD 2014)

Call for Papers

The 1st WORKSHOP on “Sonic Information Design: Framework, Approach, and Application”
New York June 22 (Sun), 2014
in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display 2014 (ICAD2014) (http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/icad2014/)

Submission Deadline: April 11 (Fri), 2014

DATES:

Submissions due:  April 11 (Fri), 2014 (2-4 page position paper with the ICAD format)
Notification of acceptance:  April 29 (Tue), 2014
Submission of final camera-ready paper:  May 6 (Tue), 2014
Workshop:  June 22 (Sun), 2014

DESCRIPTION:

In this workshop, we aim at outlining the “design” aspects of auditory displays and sonification. Research has proposed that multiple populations (e.g., visually impaired or blind people, children, older adults, etc.) can benefit from auditory displays and sonification. Well-designed auditory displays and sonification can supplement or replace visual displays to enhance user experience and accessibility. Despite the increase of research on auditory displays and sonification, auditory displays and sonification have been still treated peripherally and sporadically in industry and academia.… read more. “Call: Workshop on “Sonic Information Design: Framework, Approach, and Application” (at ICAD 2014)”

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