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VRTO Conference & Expo 2017 Programme
http://conference.virtualreality.to • @VRToronto 1 Director’s Welcome Letter “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of “Giants.” In searching for a succinct way to summarize the rapid change and development going on in the technology that is helping to power new and spatialized media, it dawned on me that we may find mooring from those who have worked so very hard, taken risks, failed and picked themselves up to forge on, to create many of the tools and methodologies we use today. My grandparents, who are 92 and 84, respectively are very feeble now, and I don’t know how much longer I will have them with us to learn about the world as it once was, but I recently had my friends at Quantum Capture capture a digital model of the couple in extreme high detail. I am not sure how I feel about these lifelike digital models, especially once the real people are gone. The same for all of these strange objects we will leave behind. What interests me is the meaning and life we give them. When we look to our predecessors with a desire to learn, we can unpack the experience of lifetimes. The passage of a human life is rife with impossibly beautiful stories, full of nuance, subtlety and suggestion. Twigs ready to start a bonfire. Or as Stanley Kubrick put it in his 1968 interview with Playboy Magazine: “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” That’s why I named this year’s show “Giants.” By bringing these giants together under one roof, we can build from more than 30 years of experiments, experience, wisdom and knowledge, and continue forward, cognizant of that tremendous foundation, which may not only save us from repeating mistakes, but learning from them so we can make fresh mistakes of our own, which I encourage everyone to do in the spirit of curiosity, tenacity, courage, benevolence, and collaboration..I look forward to that fluidity between instinct, passion and emotion, personality, culture and spirit that fills these electronic sarcophagi with the breath and perhaps even the meaning, of life. -
Our Time to Lead: Academic Plan 2014-2019 Report to Senate June 2017
Our Time to Lead: Academic Plan 2014-2019 Report to Senate June 2017 Table of Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................................... 2 1. Enable greater student engagement and success through exceptional experiences ........................ 2 2. Increase SRC excellence, intensity and impact ................................................................................... 3 3. Foster an innovation ecosystem .......................................................................................................... 4 4. Expand community engagement and city building ............................................................................. 4 II. FACULTY AND UNIT REPORTS (SUBMITTED TO THE PROVOST) ........................ 7 A. Faculty of Arts ...................................................................................................................................... 7 B. Faculty of Communication and Design .............................................................................................. 10 C. Faculty of Community Services .......................................................................................................... 14 D. Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science............................................................................. 17 E. Faculty of Science ............................................................................................................................... 20 F. Ted Rogers School of Management .................................................................................................. -
A Unique, International Exhibition and Professional Conference Exploring Arts, Culture and Science Through Immersive Technologies
A unique, international exhibition and professional conference exploring arts, culture and science through immersive technologies 1 VRTO Conference & Expo 2016 Programme.indd 1 6/20/2016 9:58:50 AM Director’s Welcome Letter We are lucky enough to have been alive when the internet was made publicly available, got a UI, overcame and exploded beyond skepticism, disrupting every facet of the modern human world. How exhilarating is it then, to have such an opportunity come around a second time, now in the form of immersive technology’s Renaissance. This time we are armed with the benefit of hindsight. I built this event - with the help of my colleagues - to disrupt, question, challenge, affect and yes, protect the future of this rapidly expanding force for change; to be inclusive, empowering, daring and noble. I welcome you, from the bottom of my human heart, to the inaugural VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo. Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Founder, Executive Director, VRTO Code of Ethics on Human Augmentation: Ending the sensory divide; Feedback delayed is feedback denied. • Jazz Code Concert, Sat. June 25th; • Keynote Sun. June 26th 9:15am; • Panel immediately following Keynote. For 40+ years I’ve lived everyday life in a tetherless free-roaming virtual reality universe of my own making where I could see sound and radio waves, and more profoundly, others’ sight. My most profound discovery was not what was inside that universe, but what was at its societal boundaries. Immediately pressing, are the risks that humanistically intelligent entities, augmented by surveillance, pose right now. This sensory intelligence augmentation technology is already developed enough to be dangerous in the wrong hands, e.g. -
Using the Intel® NUC 8 in VR and Fulldome for Immersive Multimedia Experiences by Audri Phillips
Using the Intel® NUC 8 in VR and Fulldome for Immersive Multimedia Experiences By Audri Phillips The ultra-compact yet powerful Intel® NUC computers offer both value and convenience. The Intel NUC 8 is a powerful workstation that meets most of my production and creative needs as a multimedia immersive artist. It is more than capable of creating interesting content for HD video, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and immersive, 180-degree video-based projection known as fulldome. The Intel NUC 8’s 4 x 4-inch size makes it easy to use in my three locations, each of which is set up differently: • At home, I connect the Intel NUC 8 to a monitor, which shows the view from a head-mounted display (HMD). • At the Vortex Immersion Media dome in Los Angeles, I connect the Intel NUC 8 to a server mapping the fulldome. • At Will Michaelsen’s Los Angeles studio, CutMod, I connect the Intel NUC 8 to a monitor and a ceiling projector. A projection on the wall shows the view from an HMD. Figure 1: (left) The ceiling projector; (right) Me in the HTC Vive*, in front of the wall being projected on. The Intel® NUC 8 is out of shot. This is from a VR project, Freedom Festival, that I am creating in Unreal Engine* on the Intel® NUC 8. The Intel NUC 8 is sold as a bare-bones device, to which you add RAM, storage, and an operating system. But it is also available as a kit with these installed. I use the Intel NUC 8i7HVK with the following specs: Intel® Core™ i7-8809G processor, 3.10 GHz Memory up to 32 GB 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor 256 GB solid state drive Radeon* RX Vega M GH graphics Installation and Configuration Installing Software on the Intel® NUC 8 I installed Maya*, Resolume Arena* 6, Unreal Engine* and Derivative TouchDesigner* as I would on any PC. -
A Transmedia Production Collaborative
A Transmedia Production Collaborative Envisioning the Future, Pushing Tomorrow’s Creative Technologies Beyond Today's • “I like to think • (right now, please!) • of a cybernetic forest • filled with pines and electronics • where deer stroll peacefully • past computers • as if they were flowers • with spinning blossoms. • I like to think • (it has to be!) • of a cybernetic ecology” - Richard Brautigan All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace Vision Are We Robots? Robot Prayers is both entertaining and experimental, a meditation on the theme of evolving virtual and real characters seeking the truth of who they are. Robot Prayers brings together cutting edge immersive mixed reality technologies with a group of leading artists, writers, composers, animators, musicians, dancers, costume designers, interactive designers and creative technologists to explore our hybrid identities and ethics and the new diversity in a world where man and machine are melding. Goals Immediate Goal Robot Prayers is in development of a 70 minute fulldome film designed to show in domes around the world. There is a rapidly expanding market for dome productions. Future Goals Caribay Frank, dancer In the future Robot Prayers will produce content and performances for a variety of formats culminating in a subscription based performance season. Projects include Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, location based experiences, books, and games. This will all emerge from the results of Robot Prayer’s research and development in the pursuit of new ways to use emerging technologies. Merchandise based on the characters will be marketed. Performances and Projects Robot Prayers’ Performances and Fulldome Cinema have been shown at festivals in California, Colorado, Germany and Poland. -
Hyun Jong Won L
E. [email protected] HYUN JONG WON L. https://ca.linkedin.com/in/hywon HOWARD T. 1 647 467 0699 Portfolio: https://issuu.com/howardwon/docs/hyunjongwon_selectedworks_2017 EDUCATION 2017 - Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, United States) _design studio _cultural history Master of Entertainment Technology _architectural history _Starting Fall 2017 _architectural theory _building science 2017 Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada) _sustainable design _interactive design Computer Science, Continuing Studies _parametric design _Excellent Academic Standing _graphic design _furniture design _calculus 2011 - 2016 University of Waterloo (Cambridge, Canada) _physics Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours Co-op _economics _Graduated with Distinction _woodworking _Rome Program (Fall 2015 study-abroad) _computer science PROFESSIONAL 2016 Without Walls Limited (Thunder Bay, Canada) _”Industrial Park” Jan - Apr Brownfield Development 1 Position: Junior Designer _”Shipyard Bay” _Worked on multiple design schemes simultaneously and prepared the Brownfield Development 2 necessary materials to be included in the client presentation package. _Engineering Office _Worked directly with the principal to address the clients’ needs Complex Master Plan _Oversaw and prioritized project workflows according to schedule 2015 UNStudio (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) _Seoul Hyundai Motors HQ Jan - Aug Position: Trainee _FC Barcelona Camp Nou _Worked with diverse teams across a wide variety of projects ranging Stadium Competition from a pedestrian bridge to a corporate office headquarters. _Qatar Children’s Museum _Produced presentation drawings, renderings, diagrams, and models. _Dubai Expo 2020 Pavilion _Research and designed a new workflow strategy for UNStudio office. 2014 Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York City, United States) _College of the Holy Cross May - Aug Position: Summer Intern Campus Theater _Worked with the project designer for geometry and material studies. -
About the Contributors
527 About the Contributors -Jacquelyn Morie’s30yearsofresearching&creatingmeaningfulVRexperiencescombinesmulti .sensoryandperceptualtechniquesforVRthatpredictablyelicitemotionalresponsesfromparticipants ,HercompanyAllTheseWorlds,LLCisactiveinsocialVR,Mindfulnessapplications,storytelling stressreliefexperiences,avatarsandimmersiveeducation&training.In2016sheconcludedaspecial projectforNASAcalledANSIBLE,afullvirtualworldecosystemdesignedtoprovidepsychological benefitsforfutureastronautswhowillundertakeextremelylongisolatedmissionstoMars.ANSIBLE wastestedinananalogfacilitycalledHISEASinHawaii,whereateamofsixscientistswassequestered .forafullyeartosimulatetheconditionsofisolationonMars,includinglongcommunicationsdelays.Dr Moriealsoinvestigatestheuseofpersonalavatarsforhowweusethemandhowtheyaffectourhuman selves.In2004sheinventedanovelscentreleasedeviceforVR(nowcalledcalledRemniScent),toaid intheevocativepowerofVRexperiences.HereducationincludesadvanceddegreesinFineArtsand ComputerScience(MFA,1984&MS,1988fromtheUniversityofFlorida)andaPhDinComputer andInformationSystemsfromSmartlab,UniversityofEastLondonin2007.Morielivesonatinyurban .farmwithherextendedfamilyina110yearoldhouseneardowntownLosAngeles,CA Kate McCallumisaforward-thinkingmulti-mediaproducer,writer,anddigitalartsandmedia strategistwithanemphasisinIPdevelopment,transmedia,andnewmediatechnologyplatforms.Kate -
VRTO Conference & Expo 2019 Print Programme
1 Director’s Welcome Letter It’s funny, how inspiration works. Putting on a conference like this is a mountain of consistent work. Sometimes you feel like you are getting tackled at every yard line, like nobody cares, like you can never cut through all the noise. Kind of like the VR industry has felt these past few years. Then you approach the finish line, the culmination of all your intense work, sacrifice, asking for favours, alms, attention, support, all the things you have learned and been taught along the way and realize... wow we still have to actually launch this thing. I wasn’t sure how or when I was going to write this letter, because I was firing on all cylinders, moving a million miles a minute...and then it occurred to me - that is what this year’s show is about. It is about pausing for a moment, like one of those volumetric John Gaeta bullet-time sequences, and taking stock in all that has come before, and how to communicate that to as many people as possible in a way THEY can understand. This year our theme is about Humans and about Recalibration. We have come so far so fast, and we can’t forget that it is about us, people, and the beautiful world we live in, above all things. This year, we take what we have learned and, rather than dwell on the difficulty of the path to here, we recalibrate and get ready for the Big Show; that part where our alien technology meets people in the way that works best for them.