The Immersive Eco-system training event for Accelerate was led by faculty from University of the Arts London. This training event built on progress made during the Accessible Pedagogies training event.
Activities involved hands-on training to support and inform the development of the project’s immersive platform and ecosystem. Collaborative VR making, ed by Mick Grierson, Joshua Murr & Kristina Thiele focused on a set of basic tasks designed to explore potential educational strategies and approaches for collaborative WebXR including:
- Getting started making collaborative WebXR
- Understanding geometry, materials, lighting, and physics
- Importing 3D geometry
- Advanced concepts
Biographies
Mick Grierson is Research Leader at UAL Creative Computing Institute. His research explores new approaches to the creation of sounds, images, video and interactions through signal processing, machine learning and information retrieval techniques. Mick is also the director of the Daphne Oram Collection, and co-founder of the Daphne Oram Trust. Hardware and software based on his research has been widely used by world-leading production companies, tech start-ups and artists including the BBC, Channel 4, Sigur Ros, Christian Marclay, Martin Creed and many others. He is Principal Investigator on the £1million Artificial Intelligence project MIMIC, which is a partnership between Durham University, Sussex University, and Google’s Project Magenta.
Kristina Thiele, Associate Lecturer for immersive technologies at the University of the Arts London CCW. Spatial Designer and VR immersive experience creative and co-founder of artsXR, an immersive production studio in London, UK.
University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe’s largest specialist arts and Design University, bringing together six previously separate arts, design, fashion and communication Colleges. UAL has more than 3,000 academic, research and technical staff and about 19,000 students from more than 100 countries. UAL is actively engaged in research and innovation as well as artistic, cultural and education projects. In the latest REF (UK Research Excellence Framework) 83% of UAL research was classified as ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, and its overall quality profile placed it in the top 25 of UK Universities.