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 mikhail.fominykh@ntnu.no

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