Mixed Reality/Augmented Virtual Reality Reality Hardware Microsoft’s foray into Mixed Reality. Runs Windows and can be Room scale experience with great HoloLens* controller scheme. The Pro is the best of controlled with a mixture of voice VivePro* Vive and hand gestures. the best, and the Vive is high-end prosumer hardware. Newly released and a serious MR contender to the HoloLens. Will Oculus Rift Features competent controllers and probably be best for gaming and Magic Leap* (w/ Oculus Touch) some good “exclusive” software. A showcase experiences. solid upper-middle end piece of hardware. Heads-up display headset that gives AR features in a Lenovo Mirage* Standalone systems that feature good lightweight pair of glasses linked Epson Moverio Oculus Go* top-notch portability. Ideal for showing to an Android device. Plays 360 experiences at scale. Cost-effective and video and allows for hands-free GearVR designed for the masses. AR experiences. Apple/Google’s software to create Google The system for anyone and everyone with a compatible smartphone. Best AR applications on smartphones ARKit/ARCore Cardboard and tablets. Detects planes like option for massive application in floors, tables, and walls to fix digital classrooms. objects within the environment viewed onscreen. Now Showing Examples of titles available at today’s Showcase
theBlu (ocean habitats) VR Chemical Model Tilt Brush (3D painting) Universe Sandbox (physics- based space simulator) A variety of other XR experiences are being provided today by University Libraries and Lenovo. “VR / MR / AR are not separate and distinct things. “VR Definition #11: VR is the most centrally situated They’re convenient labels for different points on a discipline.” – Jaron Lanier, “Father of Virtual Reality” & spectrum.” – Clay Bavor, VP of VR and AR at Google Interdisciplinary Scientist at Microsoft Research.
Campus Support for XR ARVR Interest Group – 220 members Center for Faculty Excellence: on listserv, (almost) monthly meetings. Open to anyone at UNC • CFE/Lenovo Instructional Know the Lingo Innovation Grants (XR awards): and beyond. X Reality is the currently accepted term to capture the Libraries, Medicine, Religious reality-virtuality continuum. The term can mean CARVR student group – meetings, Studies, Education extended reality, or use the variable X to refer to various project-based focus XR kinds of immersive technologies. • XR focus for Faculty Showcase on Teaching Virtual Reality refers to a predominantly simulated XR Faculty Learning Community - environment. Creates the most visually compelling Monthly meetings, pedagogical focus. Libraries: HTC Vive and workshops VR experiences, especially when paired with sophisticated controls. at UL and KSL, Demos and eye- tracking* at HSL Augmented Reality overlays objects, images, and AR displays on top of the world around you – typically meant to reflect on the world. Mixed Reality is used to refer to technologies like the Get involved with [email protected] | @ARVR_UNC MR Microsoft Hololens or Magic Leap, which combine depth XR at UNC: http://arvr.web.unc.edu/ sensing and environmental scanning so that digital objects can interact with the real world.
Disciplines Using XR at UNC Disciplinary example: Applications in Healthcare Pharmacy, Chemistry, Romance languages, History, Psychology – relaxation (meditation), facing trauma (PTSD, fear of heights, flying, Classics, Law, English, ITS classrooms, Campus Tour, snakes, etc.), anxiety (public speaking, revealing HIV status), smoking cessation, eating Athletics, Religious Studies, BeAM, Archeology, disorders, autism (social cognition) Communication, Digital Humanities, Health In-patient use - pain management, overcoming loneliness and depression, motivating Informatics, Information Science, Neuroscience, movement, patient education Pediatrics, Biomedical Engineering, MD program, Education – going impossible places (blood stream, molecular bonding, anatomy, Burn Center, Computer Science (motion capture, machine vision, AR surgery, etc.), MEITE (Education), etc.), empathy, telestration Space Club, Planetarium, eSports club Physical training – athletics, fitness, physical rehabilitation Professional training – surgical planning and practice, practicing CPR and Heimlich Events: Hack NC 360 Livestream, THInC Hackathon, maneuver, radiology 1789 Workshop Rehabilitation - stroke, vision disorders, attention, balance, memory