Download - VR as cooperation technology lecture
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Virtual Reality as a Cooperation Technology
Cooperation Technology and Social Media course Norwegian University of Science and Technology
October, 8 2014
Mikhail Fominykh Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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How can Technology support cooperation?
-> collaborative work ->
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access to resources
communication
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Virtual Reality (VR)
a computer-simulated environment that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world or imagined worlds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality
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Virtual Reality senses: Sight
o Sight – desktop / stereo / CAVE / HMD – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_virtual_reality
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Automatic_Virtual_Environment
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted_display
o Hearing o Taste o Smell o Touch
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Desktop VR
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Stereoscopy
http://www.xdcam-user.com/alisters-blog/
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Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE)
http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/vr/Projects/Cave/
8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift
Head-mounted display (HMD)
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Head-mounted display (HMD)
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Virtual Reality senses: Hearing
o Sight o Hearing – 3D audio
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_virtual_reality
o Taste o Smell o Touch
11 http://www.stormaudio.com/en/technologies/3d-audio/spheraudio/
Virtual acoustics and audio
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Virtual Reality senses: Taste
o Sight o Hearing o Taste – virtual taste
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology
o Smell o Touch
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http://mixedrealitylab.org/projects/all-projects/digital-taste-interface/
Digital Taste Interface
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Virtual Reality senses: Smell
o Sight o Hearing o Taste o Smell – virtual smell
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_technology
o Touch
15 http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/
Virtual Cocoon
16 http://phys.org/news/2011-04-virtual-reality-scent-human.html
Meta cookie
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Virtual Reality senses: Touch
o Sight o Hearing o Taste o Smell o Touch – haptic / force feedback
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_technology
18 http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~vikash/Hddn.html
Haptic glove
19 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/141790329/araig-as-real-
as-it-gets/
Multi-sensory feedback suit
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Cooperation in VR
21 http://www.esi-group.com/
22 http://www.esi-group.com/
23 Future Immersive Training Environment_(FITE)
24 http://www.uni-weimar.de/de/medien/professuren/vr/research/display-
systems/c1x6-a-stereoscopic-six-user-display/
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Still, most of the applications are… single-user (or a small group)
experience
26 http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=3523
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Desktop VR is much more social … so far
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What are Virtual Worlds?
En environment 1. Multiuser 2. Synchronous 3. Persistent 4. Facilitated by networked computers
o Three-dimensional graphical desktop interphase o Social Worlds/Game Worlds
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Social Virtual Worlds
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How can Virtual Worlds support cooperation?
1. Communication among users 2. Collaborative work 3. Access to resources
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1. Communication among users
+ Great support for synchronous activities + Sense of presence and Awareness + Text + voice + avatar gestures and
navigation ‒ Low support for asynchronous activities ‒ High level of disruption ‒ High connection speed demand
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2. Collaborative work
+ Sense of presence – good for meetings, discussion, simulations, and role playing
+ Shared artifacts – all types of media + Awareness – high ‒ No special functions for coordination ‒ Rare convenient tools for the flat media ‒ Resource demanding
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3. Access to resources
+ All types of media + Multiple resources in a single environment + Dynamics of the content + Interactivity of the content ‒ Ambiguous meaning of visual symbols ‒ More time required to develop/import ‒ Not suitable for large amounts of simple
data
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The lecture part ends here…
… and the Game starts
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Game 1: Task
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Game 1: sorting
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Game 1: counting
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Game 2: Task
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Game 2: sorting
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Game 2: counting
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Thank you!
Mikhail Fominykh [email protected]
Contact me: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~fominykh/
Virtual recording of the lecture: http://vacademia.com/record/detailed/5662
Videos demonstrated during the lecture:
Auro-3D: http://youtu.be/WhzAk-XzmYQ?t=1m37s
Metacookie: http://youtu.be/MBS-5oIS4Xo
Araig - Kickstarter Trailer: http://youtu.be/lBgmmuEe9HQ
