Twice a year teams of students at the University of Bath work on the Alumni Fund telethon campaign. This involves calling University alumni, in the UK and overseas, to fund raise for the many Alumni Fund. The Fund supports projects which enhance the student experience and allow greater engagement with...
Award-winning VR/AR content production agency, REWIND, collaborated with CAMERA for an innovative motion capture job on behalf of Welsh National Opera (WNO). The project involved capturing body and face motion data from world renowned soprano, Karah Son, whilst she performed the much-loved aria, ‘Un Bel Di,’ from the opera, Madam Butterfly....
With many thanks to Steffi Colyer for this insight into her work in the field of Human Performance Enhancement as part of the CAMERA team. At the pinnacle of sport, success and failure can often be decided by the finest of margins. Consequently, the philosophy of “marginal gains” has evolved...
With thanks to Sinéad Kearney for this insight into her work on Motion Capture and its Application to Animals as part of the CAMERA team. The motion capture of humans and animals is the process of recording the motion of the subject in either 2D or 3D space. The information...
At this month’s Departmental seminar, Monday 22 May, 12.15-12.45 in 2E 3.5, we will hear from Dan Finnegan and David Sherratt: Dan Finnegan Title: ‘Its all Scenes & Objects’: Immersive audio rendering techniques for virtual environments While 3D graphics have been around for a long time, they matured exponentially...
From 11-13 April 2017 the CAMERA team attended VR World Congress 2017 to take part in the expo and to demo our collaborative project with Marshmallow Laser Feast, Chameleon; a 360º exploration of the people of Mexico City examining the relationship between virtual reality, sight and touch in one of the...
On 22 April 2017, The Edge will host Co-Lab Dance and Technology, an afternoon of performance, talks and demonstrations, exploring the pioneering technology capable of interfacing with movement in new and exciting ways. Co-Lab is an opportunity to discover how artists and scientists are collaborating to create new experiences for dance audiences. If...
The CAMERA team is very pleased to welcome Xiaokun (Kelvin) Wu to the team. Kelvin joins us from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and will be working closely work with Prof Eamonn O’Neill and Dr Yongliang Yang. Kelvin is aiming at delivering high quality working solutions to virtual reality problems;...
Call for abstracts This annual one-day event, led by Bristol Vision Institute (BVI) at the University of Bristol in collaboration with the Universities of Bath, Exeter and Cardiff, brings together vision researchers from all disciplines. This years event will be held at University of Bath on 23 June, featuring a...
In this post, Dr Elena Seminati gives a overview of her work as part of the CAMERA team. In my research work I’ve been looking how to best adopt new advanced technologies and techniques to aid the recovery and rehabilitation of people with physical impairments. In particular, I’ve focused on...
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