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EDUCATION & ICT – UTRECHT UNIVERSITY

12 JAN 2016

Virtual Reality & Education

Robin de Lange - CV

Bachelor

Physics

Philosophy

Artificial Intelligence

MSc. Media Technology

Focus: Extended cognition &

Augmented Reality

EDUCATION WORK

Owner tutoring company

Video production MOOC & SPOC

WWW. ROBINDELANGE .COM

Unity3D: Projects

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20732302/ARBieb.wmv


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20732302/ARBieb.wmv

Graduation project

• Augmented Reality

prototype

• Raise discussion

• PhD proposal

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20732302/Demo

%20ARMath.wmv


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20732302/Demo ARMath.wmv

Robin de Lange - CV

Bachelor

Physics

Philosophy

Artificial Intelligence

MSc. Media Technology

Focus: Extended cognition &

Augmented Reality

EDUCATION WORK

Owner tutoring company

Video production MOOC & SPOC

PhD student @ Media Technology

Initiator Lyceo CodeLab


March 2013: Oculus Rift


Hack the Brain: Project Brainstorm

• Live EEG data visualization for Oculus Rift

• Together with Eva Delincakova & Bert Spaan @ Hack the Brain

hackathon


Focus of research

• In what ways can we use VR to explain

complex problems?

• What are the obstacles and opportunities of

VR in the field of education?


A Brief History of VR

Virtual Reality is not new



Sensorama

• 1955 by Morton Heilig

• Experience Theater

• Multi-sensory

• No financial support



LEEP Cyberface

• 1989

• By Eric Howlett

• First commercial HMD

• Very wide angle stereoscopic

optics



Nintendo Virtual Boy

• 1995

• Monochromatic display

• No head-tracking, fixed position

• Commercial failure

• From VR hype to disappointment



https://youtu.be/tdAaU0CRHng?t=1m51s


https://youtu.be/tdAaU0CRHng?t=1m51s


Oculus Rift

• 2012: Kickstarter campaign

• Much wider FOV

• Low latency tracking

• Aimed at consumer market

• Benefits from developments in

computer hardware

• Acquired by Facebook in 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhcOMOWRMnA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhcOMOWRMnA


Google Cardboard

• Gift at 2014 Google I/O

• Open source design

• Starting from $2

• Start of mobile VR

• Magnet as input button


State of the art

• VR Ecosystem emerged

• By 2018 > $5bln. market

• Dozens of headsets

• All sorts of input devices

• Content developers

• 360 / spherical video cameras

• Video stitching software

• Blogs, consultants, business

analysts, etc

http://greenlightvr.com/vr-ecosystem-map


http://greenlightvr.com/vr-ecosystem-map

Virtual Reality for Science & Education

• Exploring the potential of VR for science & education;

• Elective research course for 25 bachelor and master students

• Received LUF – Gratama grant for this project

• Obtaining skills to create interactive VR content using e.g. Unity3D

and 360˚ film technology;

• Creating a VR prototype as final project


Results

Possible applications for many fields of study

• Visualization of buildings or 3D designs

• Simulation of dangerous situations for police of army

• Immersive data visualizations

• Reconstructions of archaeological sites

• Experience the world from someone else’s eyes

• Immersive language learning

• History lectures set on important places

• Social environments for following a MOOC


VR content creation

UNITY3D

Combination of 3D

designing and coding

environment


VR content creation

PHOTO / VIDEO

Ricoh Theta or GoPro-

based setup

Workflow similar to

regular video


VR content creation

OTHER

Web VR

vvvv

Existing VR

applications where

users create

content


Student projects


Demo & Discussion
