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We are very exited that CAMERA Co-Investigator Steffi Colyer and CAMERA Co-Director Eamonn O’Neill will be heading up a brand new Bath Beacon with the Department for Health’s Keith Stokes. A second wave of Bath Beacons has been announced supporting further multidisciplinary collaborative networks which will address the UKRI strategic themes outlined...
People with vivid imaginations are more likely than others to believe they truly inhabit the worlds they visit in virtual reality (VR) according to new research led by the University of Bath. This finding, published at this year’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – the premier international conference of...
As our work with Bristol + Bath Creative R+D comes to a close we wanted to take a closer look at one of the research projects involved. PhD researcher Anca Salagean has been working on a multi-disciplinary project investigating embodiment and perception of personalised avatars in VR. Anca’s PhD is...
Back in the summer of 2021 the team at CAMERA began to work with filmmakers Andrew Panton and Piotr Forkasiewicz to create a set of digital characters for their film Attack on Sorpe Dam. The film features George ‘Johnny’ Johnson and focuses on the attack of the Sorpe Dam in...
Photo Credit: EMIL Immersive technologies – such as virtual and augmented reality – have enormous potential to make digital experiences more vivid and relatable. To accelerate progress in this field, four top European universities have banded together to form a high-tech media lab that will work with, and support, organisations...
As part of the recently funded European Media and Immersion Lab (EMIL), the Department of Computer Science are looking for a highly motivated individual to conduct research in the area of VR/AR. The project aims to design exciting new VR/AR systems, focusing on systems that involve physical activity such as VR exercise...
New research by Dr Pooya Soltani from CAMERA has used motion capture technology to assess the accuracy of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technologies in football. The study suggests that VAR is useful for preventing obvious mistakes but is currently not precise enough to give accurate judgements every time. VAR was...
We asked CAMERA Research Associate Crescent Jicol to tell us all about his recent trip to the states after having his paper accepted at CHI 2022: “My first in-person CHI conference, CHI 2022 in New Orleans was definitely the highlight of my last few years as a researcher. This is...
We are thrilled to welcome Dr Raghav Brahmadesam Venkataramaiyer to the CAMERA Team. Raghav will be joining us as a Research Associate working on an MRC project with CAMERA Associate Dr Vinay Namboodiri and CAMERA Co-Investigator Prof Darren Cosker. We asked Raghav to tell us a little bit about himself…...
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