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The REWIND virtual reality experience for Welsh National Opera “Magic Butterfly” has won the FMBE Gold Award for Creative Technology. The Team at CAMERA collaborated on technical production elements. The judges noted “the accessible nature of their creative ideas applied in a way that were clearly achievable and replicable for...
With many thanks to CAMERA team member Dr Yongliang Yang for giving us this insight into the paper published at Chi 2017. The availability of commodity 3D extruder pen allows direct drawing of 3D wire sculptures for novice users. However, the lack of spatial and structural cues among individual pen...
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....
Dr James Tompkin is visiting the Department of Computer Science on Thursday 13 July to present his recent work on computational videography. When: 13 July at 14;15 Where: 5W 2.4 Bio: James is a new assistant professor at Brown University in graphics/vision/HCI, where he is currently attempting to attract students...
Games Research across University and Industry Contexts Directed at early stage postgraduate and research associates, this seminar will address different approaches to game-related research within academia and industry. We want to define what are the differences between research in university and research in industry, how to carry out studies both...
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...
Three members of the Department of Computer Science will be giving talks at Pint of Science, a festival that “aims to deliver interesting and relevant talks on the latest science research in an accessible format to the public – mainly across bars and pubs.” From today to Wednesday, there will be...
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