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Fall 2024 XR Classes

Fall 2024 XR Classes

Looking for Classes that incorporate XR?

EECS 440 – Extended Reality for Social Impact (Capstone / MDE)

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Contact with Questions:
Austin Yarger
ayarger@umich.edu

Extended Reality for Social Impact — Design, development, and application of virtual and augmented reality software for social impact. Topics include: virtual reality, augmented reality, game engines, ethics / accessibility, interaction design patterns, agile project management, stakeholder outreach, XR history / culture, and portfolio construction. Student teams develop and exhibit socially impactful new VR / AR applications.

ENTR 390.005 & 390.010 – Intro to Entrepreneurial Design, VR Lab

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Sara ‘Dari’ Eskandari
seskanda@umich.edu

In this lab, you’ll learn how to develop virtual reality content for immersive experiences in the Meta Quest, MIDEN or for Virtual Production using Unreal Engine and 3d modeling software. You’ll also be introduced to asset creation and scene assembly by bringing assets into the Unreal Engine & creating interactive experiences. At the end of the class you’ll be capable of developing virtual reality experiences, simulations, and tools to address real-world problems.

Students will have an understanding of how to generate digital content for Virtual Reality platforms; be knowledgeable on versatile file formats, content pipelines, hardware platforms and industry standards; understand methods of iterative design and the creation of functional prototypes using this medium; employ what is learned in the lecture section of this course to determine what is possible, what is marketable, and what are the various distribution methods available within this platform; become familiar with documenting their design process and also pitching their ideas to others, receiving and providing quality feedback.

UARTS 260 – Empathy in Pointclouds

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Contact with Questions:
Dawn Gilpin
dgilpin@umich.edu

Empathy In Point Clouds: Spatializing Design Ideas and Storytelling through Immersive Technologies integrates LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, and Unreal Engine into education, expanding the possible methodologies and processes of architectural design. Entering our third year of the FEAST program, we turn our attention to storytelling and worldbuilding using site-specific point cloud models as the context for our narratives. This year the team will produce 1-2 spatial narratives for the three immersive technology platforms we are working with: Meta Quest VR headset, MiDEN/VR CAVE, and the LED stage.

ARTDES 217 – Bits and Atoms

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Contact with Questions:
Sophia Brueckner
sbrueckn@umich.edu

This is an introduction to digital fabrication within the context of art and design. Students learn about the numerous types of software and tools available and develop proficiency with the specific software and tools at Stamps. Students discuss the role of digital fabrication in creative fields.

ARTDES 420 – Sci-Fi Prototyping

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Contact with Questions:
Sophia Brueckner
sbrueckn@umich.edu

This course ties science fiction with speculative/critical design as a means to encourage the ethical and thoughtful design of new technologies. With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes, this course combines the analysis of science fiction with physical fabrication or code-based interpretations of the technologies they depict.

SI 559 – Introduction to AR/VR Application Design

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Contact with Questions:
Michael Nebeling
nebeling@umich.edu

This course will introduce students to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) interfaces. This course covers basic concepts; students will create two mini-projects, one focused on AR and one on VR, using prototyping tools. The course requires neither special background nor programming experience.

FTVM 394 / DIGITAL 394 – Topics in Digital Media Production, Virtual Reality

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Contact with Questions:
Yvette Granata
ygranata@umich.edu

This course provides an introduction to key software tools, techniques, and fundamental concepts supporting digital media arts production and design. Students will learn and apply the fundamentals of design and digital media production with software applications, web-based coding techniques and study the principals of design that translate across multiple forms of media production.

UARTS 260/360/460/560 – THE BIG CITY: Lost & Found in XR

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Matthew Solomon & Sara Eskandari
mpsolo@umich.edu / seskanda@umich.edu

No copies are known to exist of 1928 lost film THE BIG CITY, only still photographs, a cutting continuity, and a detailed scenario of the film. This is truly a shame because the film featured a critical mass of black performers — something extremely uncommon at the time. Using Unreal Engine, detailed 3D model renderings, and live performance, students will take users back in time into the fictional Harlem Black Bottom cabaret and clubs shown in the film. Students will experience working in a small game development team to create a high-fidelity, historical recreation of the sets using 3D modeling, 2D texturing skills, level design, and game development pipelines. They will experience a unique media pipeline of game design for live performance and cutting-edge virtual production. This project will also dedicate focus towards detailed documentation in order to honor the preservation of THE BIG CITY that allows us to attempt this endeavor and the black history that fuels it.

MOVESCI 313 – The Art of Anatomy

Contact with Questions:
Melissa Gross & Jenny Gear
mgross@umich.edu / gearj@umich.edu

Learn about human anatomy and how it has historically been taught through human history covering a variety of mediums including the recent adoption of XR tools. Students will get hands-on experience with integrating and prototyping AR and VR Visualization technologies for medical and anatomical study.

ARCH 565 – Research in Environmental Technology

Contact with Questions:
Mojtaba Navvab
moji@umich.edu

The focus of this course is the introduction to research methods in environmental technology. Qualitative and quantitative research results are studied with regard to their impact on architectural design. Each course participant undertakes an investigation in a selected area of environmental technology. The experimental approach may use physical modeling, computer simulation, or other appropriate methods (VR).

FTVM 455.004 – Topics in Film: Eco Imaginations
WGS 412.001 – Fem Art Practices

Contact with Questions:
Petra Kuppers
petra@umich.edu

These courses will include orientations to XR technologies and sessions leveraging Unreal Engine and Quixel 3d assets to create immersive virtual reality environments.

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Recruiting Unity VR programmers to Evaluate Sound Customization Toolkit for Virtual Reality Applications

Recruiting Unity VR programmers to Evaluate Sound Customization Toolkit for Virtual Reality Applications

Participate in a study by the EECS Accessibility Lab

The EECS Accessibility Lab needs your help evaluating a new Sound Accessibility toolkit for Virtual Reality!

Our research team is studying how sound customization tools, like modulating frequency or dynamically adjusting volume can enhance VR experience for DHH people. We are recruiting adult (18 or older) participants who have at least 1 year of experience working with UnityVR and have at least 2 previous projects that have sounds to add our toolkit into.

This study will be self-paced, remote, and asynchronous. It will take around 60 – 90 minutes.

In this study, we will collect some demographic information about you (e.g., age, gender) and ask about your experience working with UnityVR. We will then introduce our Sound Customization Toolkit and ask you to apply it to your own project. We will ask you to record your screen and voice during this implementation process. We will ask you to complete a form during the study to provide feedback for our toolkit.

After the study, we will compensate you $30 in the form of an Amazon Gift Card for your time.

If you are interested in participating, please fill out this Google Form. For more information, feel free to reach out to Xinyun Cao: xinyunc@umich.edu.

For more details on our work, see our lab’s webpage.

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New MIDEN – Unveiling of the upgraded MIDEN for Fall ‘23

New MIDEN – Unveiling of the upgraded MIDEN for Fall ‘23

New dual view capabilities

Maredith Byrd

We have upgraded the MIDEN! The new projectors use LEDs with much brighter and higher resolution using four Christie Digital M 4K25 RGB Laser Projectors. The new projectors use LEDs that have a longer lifespan. We used to have to limit how often and how long the MIDEN was run because the previous lamps had a very limited lifespan of just 1250 hours. For a 10′ x 10′ Screen, the resolution for each screen will be 2160×2160, which is double the previous resolution. There are now 25,000 hours of Lifespan at 100% brightness and 50,000 hours at 50% brightness.The new capabilities allow for two people to experience the view at once. They can see the same virtual content aligned to each of their unique perspectives and simultaneously interact with the content.

In a typical setup, 3D stereoscopic content (like what you would experience in a 3D movie) is projected onto three walls and the floor and stitched seamlessly together. Users wear a set of motion-tracked glasses that allow their perspective to be updated depending on where they are standing or looking, and use a motion-tracked video game controller to navigate beyond the confines of the 10’x10’ room. To the user wearing the 3D glasses, the projected content appears entirely to scale and has realistic depth – they can look underneath tables that appear to be situated in front of them, despite the table being projected onto one of the walls.

The MIDEN supports 3D Modeling formats exported by the most popular modeling software: Blender, 3ds Max, Maya, Sketchup, Rhino, Revit, etc. These models can be exported in the following formats and then imported into our “Jugular” software: OBJ, FBX, STL, and VRML formats. The MIDEN can also produce Unreal Engine scenes where we use the nDisplay plugin to split the scene into 4 different cameras to correspond with the 4 projectors in the MIDEN. 

MIDEN users experience immersion in a virtual environment without it blocking their view of themselves or their surroundings as a VR headset does. Since VR “CAVE” is a trademarked term, ours is called the MIDEN, which stands for Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus and the MIDEN takes traditional “CAVE” technology much further – it is driven by our in-house developed rendering engine that affords more flexibility than a typical “CAVE” setup.

The MIDEN is more accessible than VR headsets, meaning it takes less time to set up and begin using compared to headsets. The game controller used is a standard Xbox-type gaming pad, familiar to most gamers. The MIDEN has increased immersion, the vision of the real world is not hidden, so users do not have to worry about trip hazards or becoming disoriented. The MIDEN users see their real body unlike in a VR headset where the body is most likely a virtual avatar. This results in less motion sickness. 

It can be used for Architectural Review, Data Analysis, Art Installations, Learning 3D modeling, and much more. From seeing the true scale of a structure in relation to the body to sensory experiences with unique visuals and spatialized audio, the MIDEN is capable of assisting these projects to a new level.

The MIDEN is available to anyone to use for a project, class exercise, or tour by request. They can contact emergingtech@umich.edu to arrange to use it. Use of the MIDEN does require staff to run it, and we recommend anyone looking to view their custom content in the MIDEN arrange a few sessions ahead of their event to test their content and ensure their scene is configured properly.

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This is how the MIDEN configures itself.
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Security Robots Study

Security Robots

Using XR to conduct studies in robotics

Maredith Byrd

Xin Ye is a University of Michigan Master’s Student at the School of Information. She approached The Duderstadt Center with her Master’s Thesis Defense Project to test the favorability of humanoid robots. Stephanie O’Malley at the Visualization Studio helped Xin to develop a simulation using three types of security robots with varying features to see if a more humanoid robot is viewed with more favorable experiences.

Panoramic of Umich Hallway

The simulation’s goal is to make participants feel like they were interacting with a real robot standing in front of them, so the MIDEN was the perfect tool to use for this experiment. The MIDEN (Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus) is a 10 x 10 x 10 square box that relies on projections so the user can naturally walk in a virtual environment. An environment is constructed in Unreal Engine and projected into the MIDEN allowing the user to still see their physical body within the projected digital world, and the digital world is created to be highly detailed. 

Panoramic of the MIDEN

Users step into the MIDEN and by wearing 3D glasses are immersed in a digital environment that recreates common locations on a college campus: such as a university hallway/commons area OR an outdoor parking lot. After a short while, the participant gains the attention of the security robot, and it approaches them to question them.

Setting up the MIDEN

Xin Ye then triggers the appropriate response so users think the robot is responding intelligently. The robots were all configured to have different triggerable answers to participants that Xin Ye could initiate behind the curtains of the MIDEN. This is a technique referred to in studies as “Wizard of Oz” because the participant thinks the robotic projection has an artificial intelligence just as a real robot in this situation would possess when in reality it is a human deciding the appropriate response.

Knightscope
Ramsee
Pepper

This project aimed to evaluate the human perception of different types of security robots – some more humanoid than others, to see if a more humanoid robot was viewed more favorably. Three different types of robots were used: Knightscope, Ramsee, and Pepper. Knightscope is a cone-shaped robot that lacks any humanoid features. Ramsee is a little more humanoid with simple facial features, while Pepper is the most humanoid with more complex features as well as arms and legs.  

Participants interacted with 1 of 3 different robot types. The robot would approach the participant in the MIDEN, and question them – asking for them to present an MCard, put on a face mask, or if they’ve witnessed anything suspicious. To ensure that these robots all had a fair chance, each used the same “Microsoft David” automated male voice. Once the dialogue chain is complete, the robot thanks the participant and moves away. The participant then removes the 3D glasses and is taken to another location in the building for an exit interview. After the simulation, participants were interviewed about their interactions with the robots. If any participant realized that it was a human controlling the robot, they were disqualified from the study. 

Knightscope in Hallway
Ramsee in Hallway

Xin Ye presented her findings in a paper titled, “Human Security Robot Interaction and Anthropomorphism: An Examination of Pepper, RAMSEE, and Knightscope Robots” at the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication in Busan, South Korea.

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Fall 2023 XR Classes

Fall 2023 XR Classes

Looking for Classes that incorporate XR?

EECS 498 – Extended Reality & Society


Credits : 4
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Contact with Questions:
Austin Yarger
ayarger@umich.edu

From pediatric medical care, advanced manufacturing, and commerce to film analysis, first-responder training, and unconscious bias training, the fledgling, immersive field of extended reality may take us far beyond the realm of traditional video games and entertainment, and into the realm of diverse social impact.

“EECS 498 : Extended Reality and Society” is a programming-intensive senior capstone / MDE course that empowers students with the knowledge and experience to…

    • Implement medium-sized virtual and augmented reality experiences using industry-standard techniques and technologies.
    • Game Engines (Unreal Engine / Unity), Design Patterns, Basic Graphics Programming, etc.
    • Design socially-conscious, empowering user experiences that engage diverse audiences.
    • Contribute to cultural discourse on the hopes, concerns, and implications of an XR-oriented future.
    • Privacy / security concerns, XR film review (The Matrix, Black Mirror, etc)
    • Carry out user testing and employ feedback after analysis.
    • Requirements + Customer Analysis, Iterative Design Process, Weekly Testing, Analytics, etc.
    • Work efficiently in teams of 2-4 using agile production methods and software.
    • Project Management Software (Jira), Version Control (Git), Burndown Charting and Resource Allocation, Sprints, etc.

Students will conclude the course with at least three significant, socially-focused XR projects in their public portfolios.

 

ENTR 390 – Intro to Entrepreneurial Design, VR Lab


Credits : 3
More Info Here
Contact with Questions:
Sara ‘Dari’ Eskandari
seskanda@umich.edu

In this lab, you’ll learn how to develop virtual reality content for immersive experiences in the Oculus Rift, MIDEN or for Virtual Production using Unreal Engine and 3d modeling software. You’ll also be introduced to asset creation and scene assembly by bringing assets into the Unreal Engine & creating interactive experiences. At the end of the class you’ll be capable of developing virtual reality experiences, simulations, and tools to address real-world problems.

Students will have an understanding of how to generate digital content for Virtual Reality platforms; be knowledgeable on versatile file formats, content pipelines, hardware platforms and industry standards; understand methods of iterative design and the creation of functional prototypes using this medium; employ what is learned in the lecture section of this course to determine what is possible, what is marketable, and what are the various distribution methods available within this platform; become familiar with documenting their design process and also pitching their ideas to others, receiving and providing quality feedback.

 

FTVM 307 – Film Analysis for Filmmakers


Credits : 3
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Contact with Questions:
Matthew Solomon
mpsolo@umich.edu

 Filmmakers learn about filmmaking by watching films. This course reverse engineers movies to understand how they were produced. The goal is to learn from a finished film how the scenes were produced in front of the camera and microphone and how the captured material was edited. Students in this class use VR to reimagine classic film scenes – giving them the ability to record and edit footage from a virtual set.

 

UARTS 260 / EIPC FEAST – Empathy in Pointclouds


Credits: 1-5
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Contact with Questions:
Dawn Gilpin
dgilpin@umich.edu

Empathy In Point Clouds: Spatializing Design Ideas and Storytelling through Immersive Technologies integrates LiDAR scanning, photogrammetry, and UnReal Engine into education, expanding the possible methodologies and processes of architectural design. Entering our third year of the FEAST program, we turn our attention to storytelling and worldbuilding using site-specific point cloud models as the context for our narratives. This year the team will produce 1-2 spatial narratives for the three immersive technology platforms we are working with: VR headset, MiDEN/VR CAVE, and the LED stage.

 

 

ARTDES 217 – Bits and Atoms


Credits: 3
More Info Here
Contact with Questions:
Sophia Brueckner
sbrueckn@umich.edu

This is an introduction to digital fabrication within the context of art and design. Students learn about the numerous types of software and tools available and develop proficiency with the specific software and tools at Stamps. Students discuss the role of digital fabrication in creative fields.

 

ARTDES 420 – Sci-Fi Prototyping


Credits: 3
More Info Here
Contact with Questions:
Sophia Brueckner
sbrueckn@umich.edu

This course ties science fiction with speculative/critical design as a means to encourage the ethical and thoughtful design of new technologies. With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes, this course combines the analysis of science fiction with physical fabrication or code-based interpretations of the technologies they depict.

 

SI 559 – Introduction to AR/VR Application Design

Credits: 3
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Contact with Questions:
Michael Nebeling
nebeling@umich.edu

This course will introduce students to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) interfaces. This course covers basic concepts; students will create two mini-projects, one focused on AR and one on VR, using prototyping tools. The course requires neither special background nor programming experience.

 

FTVM 394 – Digital Media Production, Virtual Reality

Credits: 4
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Contact with Questions:
Yvette Granata
ygranata@umich.edu

This course provides an introduction to key software tools, techniques, and fundamental concepts supporting digital media arts production and design. Students will learn and apply the fundamentals of design and digital media production with software applications, web-based coding techniques and study the principals of design that translate across multiple forms of media production.

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Scientific Visualization of Pain

Scientific Visualization of Pain

XR at the Headache & Orofacial Pain Effort (HOPE) Lab

Ted Hall

Dr. Alexandre DaSilva is an Associate Professor in the School of Dentistry, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology in the College of Literature, Science & Arts, and a neuroscientist in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute.  Dr. DaSilva and his associates study pain – not only its cause, but also its diagnosis and treatment – in his Headache & Orofacial Pain Effort (HOPE) Lab, located in the 300 N. Ingalls Building.

Dr. Alex DaSilva slices through a PET scan of a “migraine brain” in the MIDEN, to find areas of heightened μ-opioid activity.

Virtual and augmented reality have been important tools in this endeavor, and Dr. DaSilva has brought several projects to the Digital Media Commons (DMC) in the Duderstadt Center over the years.

In one line of research, Dr. DaSilva has obtained positron emission tomography (PET) scans of patients in the throes of migraine headaches.  The raw data obtained from these scans are three-dimensional arrays of numbers that encode the activation levels of dopamine or μ-opioid in small “finite element” volumes of the brain.  As such, they’re incomprehensible.  But, we bring the data to life through DMC-developed software that maps the numbers into a blue-to-red color gradient and renders the elements in stereoscopic 3D virtual reality (VR) – in the Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus (MIDEN), or in head-mounted displays such as the Oculus Rift.  In VR, the user can effortlessly slide section planes through the volumes of data, at any angle or offset, to hunt for the red areas where the dopamine or μ-opioid signals are strongest.  Understanding how migraine headaches affect the brain may help in devising more focused and effective treatments.

Dr. Alex DaSilva’s associate, Hassan Jassar, demonstrates the real-time fNIRS-to-AR brain activation visualization, as seen through a HoloLens, as well as the tablet-based app for painting pain sensations on an image of a head. [Photo credit: Hour Detroit magazine, March 28, 2017. https://www.hourdetroit.com/health/virtual-reality-check/

In another line of research, Dr. DaSilva employs functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to directly observe brain activity associated with pain in “real time”, as the patient experiences it.  As Wikipedia describes it: “Using fNIRS, brain activity is measured by using near-infrared light to estimate cortical hemodynamic activity which occur in response to neural activity.”  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_near-infrared_spectroscopy]  The study participant wears an elastic skullcap fitted with dozens of fNIRS sensors wired to a control box, which digitizes the signal inputs and sends the numeric data to a personal computer running a MATLAB script.  From there, a two-part software development by the DMC enables neuroscientists to visualize the data in augmented reality (AR).  The first part is a MATLAB function that opens a Wi-Fi connection to a Microsoft HoloLens and streams the numeric data out to it.  The second part is a HoloLens app that receives that data stream and renders it as blobs of light that change hue and size to represent the ± polarity and intensity of each signal.  The translucent nature of HoloLens AR rendering allows the neuroscientist to overlay this real-time data visualization on the actual patient.  Being able to directly observe neural activity associated with pain may enable a more objective scale, versus asking a patient to verbally rate their pain, for example “on a scale of 1 to 5”.  Moreover, it may be especially helpful for diagnosing or empathizing with patients who are unable to express their sensations verbally at all, whether due to simple language barriers or due to other complicating factors such as autism, dementia, or stroke.

Yet another DMC software development, the “PainTrek” mobile application also started by Dr. DaSilva, allows patients to “paint their pain” on an image of a manikin head that can be rotated freely on the screen, as a more convenient and intuitive reporting mechanism than filling out a common questionnaire.

PainTrek app allows users to “paint” regions of the body experiencing pain to indicate and track pain intensity.
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Architectural Lighting Scenarios Envisioned in the MIDEN

Architectural Lighting Scenarios Envisioned in the MIDEN

ARCH 535 & Arch 545, Winter 2022

Mojtaba Navvab, Ted Hall

Prof. Mojtaba Navvab teaches environmental technology in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, with particular interests in lighting and acoustics.  He is a regular user of the Duderstadt Center’s MIDEN (Michigan Immersive Digital Experience Nexus) – in teaching as well as sponsored research.

On April 7, 2022, he brought a combined class of ARCH 535 and ARCH 545 students to the MIDEN to see, and in some cases hear, their projects in full-scale virtual reality.

Recreating the sight and sound of the 18-story atrium space of the Hyatt Regency Louisville, where the Kentucky All State Choir gathers to sing the National Anthem.

Arch 535: To understand environmental technology design techniques through case studies and compliance with building standards.  VR applications are used to view the design solutions.

Arch 545: To apply the theory, principles, and lighting design techniques using a virtual reality laboratory.

“The objectives are to bring whatever you imagine to reality in a multimodal perception; in the MIDEN environment, whatever you create becomes a reality.  This aims toward simulation, visualization, and perception of light and sound in a virtual environment.”

Recreating and experiencing one of the artworks by James Turrell.

“Human visual perception is psychophysical because any attempt to understand it necessarily draws upon the disciplines of physics, physiology, and psychology.  A ‘Perceptionist’ is a person concerned with the total visual environment as interpreted in the human mind.”

“Imagine if you witnessed or viewed a concert hall or a choir performance in a cathedral.  You could describe the stimulus generated by the architectural space by considering each of the senses independently as a set of unimodal stimuli.  For example, your eyes would be stimulated with patterns of light energy bouncing off the simulated interior surfaces or luminous environment while you listen to an orchestra playing or choir singing with a correct auralized room acoustics.”

A few selected images photographed in the MIDEN are included in this article.  For the user wearing the stereoscopic glasses, the double images resolve into an immersive 3D visual experience that they can step into, with 270° of peripheral vision.

Students explore a daylight design solution for a library.
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Learning to Develop for Mixed Reality – The ENTR 390 “VR Lab”

Learning to Develop for Virtual Reality – The ENTR 390 “VR Lab”

XR Prototyping

For the past several years, students enrolled in the Center for Entrepreneurship’s Intro to Entrepreneurial Design – Virtual Reality course have been introduced to programming and content creation pipelines for XR development using a variety of Visualization Studio resources. Their goal? Create innovative applications for XR. From creating video games to changing the way class material is accessed with XR capable textbooks, if you have an interest in learning how to make your own app for Oculus Rift, MIDEN or even a smart phone, this might be a class to enroll in. Students interested in this course are not required to have any prior programming or 3d modeling knowledge, and if you’ve never used a VR headset that’s OK too. This course will teach you everything you need to know.

Henry Duhaime presents his VR game for Oculus Rift, in which players explore the surface of Mars in search of a missing NASA rover.
Michael Meadows prototypes AR capable textbooks using a mobile phone and Apple’s ARKit.
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Multi-Sensing the Universe

Multi-Sensing the Universe

Envisioning a Toroidal universe

Robert Alexander teamed with Danielle Battaglia, a senior in Art & Design, to compose and integrate audio effects into her conceptual formal model of the Toroidal Universe.  Danielle combined Plato’s notion of the universe as a dodecahedron with modern notions of black holes, worm holes, and child universes.  Their multi-sensory multiverse came together in the MIDEN and was exhibited there as part of the Art & Design senior integrative art exhibition.

Interested in using the MIDEN to do something similar? Contact us.