Investigating Skills Training in Virtual Environments

• Tuesday 23rd of February 2021
• Isabel Fitton

Centre for Digital Entertainment research engineer, Isabel Fitton, has been working with the CAMERA team as part of her research into virtual reality learning environments and methods of optimizing learning outcomes in VR. Two dancers visited the CAMERA studio to motion capture Hip-Hop dance moves which will be used in...

How you can be anyone in VR – TEDx Talk

• Tuesday 2nd of February 2021
• Anca Salagean

In her talk, Anca Salagean discusses the research exploring the endless possibilities of ‘becoming another’ and ‘becoming one’s digital self’ in VR, whilst also underlining some effects of this phenomenon and ethical considerations of this. Anca Salagean is a PhD student; her main research interests are at the intersection between...

Unsettling Play: Perceptions of Agonistic Games

• Thursday 28th of January 2021
• Dr Daniela De Angeli

You can now read Daniela De Angeli et al’s new paper “Unsettling Play: Perceptions of Agonistic Games“, published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, which was nominated by three reviewers for the Best Paper Award. Abstract In this paper, we propose Agonistic Games (AGs) as a serious...

Access CAMERA’s Motion Capture Innovation Studio

• Thursday 14th of January 2021

CAMERA are offering a personalised 12-hour, fully funded programme of support to SMEs based in the South West region. Are you an SME working in the South West’s Creative Sector? Would you like to know more about Motion Capture technology and what it could do for your business? Starting March 2021,...

Create a realistic VR experience using a normal 360-degree camera

• Tuesday 15th of December 2020
• Dr Christian Richardt

Scientists at the University of Bath have developed a quick and easy approach for capturing 360° VR photography without using expensive specialist cameras.The system uses a commercially available 360° camera on a rotating selfie stick to capture video footage and create an immersive VR experience. Virtual reality headsets are becoming...

Maggie, in memoriam

• Monday 14th of December 2020

We are sad to announce that Maggie, our research assistant, has passed away at the grand old age of seventeen. Maggie worked with researchers at CAMERA to capture RGBD images which have been used to track the motion of dogs using a single camera.

Revealing new features of neurodegenerative disease using computational analysis of ultrasound images

• Monday 14th of December 2020
• Dr Emma Hodson-Tole, Manchester Metropolitan University

Ultrasound imaging is a widely used modality that has been applied to study features of skeletal muscle anatomy and in vivo mechanical behaviour in human health and disease for many years.

Merry Christmas from CAMERA

• Monday 14th of December 2020

ART-AI call for new partners and collaborators

• Wednesday 9th of December 2020

The UKRI CDT in Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI (ART-AI) is opening a call for new partners and collaborations. ART-AI exists to educate interdisciplinary professional experts to make the best, and safest, use of artificial intelligence (AI) and to explore the opportunities, challenges and constraints presented by the diverse range...