Public Relations + Digital Media Graduate
Digital Artefact A series of six blog posts on my student blog, listed under the ‘Exploring Virtual Reality’ category. The posts follow my progress experimenting with multiple forms of VR, along with notes I took while attending a presentation on VR in business. https://sunnycommandeur.wordpress.com/category/exploring-virtual-reality/ Cheap Phone VR Using the VR Box Building a Meaningful Business …
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My previous attempts at trying to use the Oculus Rift DK2, while kind of successful, didn't quite hit the spot. Instead, they got me dreaming about the potential of VR with the addition of motion controls. Turns out, the university happens to have a room in the Makerspace, dedicated to the idea. It's been full every …
In my previous post, I managed to successfully set up an Oculus Rift DK2 prototype headset, and get the main menu working. The next step I wanted to take was to get some kind of experience running. The first thing I did after landing in the menu was adjust the headset to get everything …
I was lucky enough to be lent an Oculus Rift development kit to experiment with, by my lecturer, Chris Moore. The DK2 is a prototype version released in 2014, two years before the final consumer version of the Rift became available to the public. Chris warned me that it may be 'a bit of a pain to set up'. Naturally, it …
I recently had the opportunity to attend a talk on future VR/AR trends, from the inspirational Ken Kencevski, a man who pretty much lives and breathes innovation. Ken Kencevski Ken is a UOW Alumni, an Australian Ambassador for the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance, UOW School (SCIT) Industry advisor, and has been a guest lecturer at UOW and …
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All the research I've been doing into VR really worked up my anticipation for actually experiencing it in person. I was pretty excited when my little package arrived in the mail, and I finally had the chance to see what all the fuss is about. Upon opening it I realised that it didn't come with …
The words 'virtual reality' bring a whole lot of connotations with them, but 'cheap' is probably the last one I could think of. Yet the VR experience starts at around AU$5. Among all the expensive headsets and peripherals, a side project from one of Google's employees emerged from left field, providing us with a novelty …
As part of BCM325 - Future Cultures, I presented a short Prezi to the class on VR. It's a culmination of all my research for the subject so far. Check it out here
I am conducting exploratory research into virtual realty (VR). This includes existing technologies and development trends, as well as how the ways VR can be used. My exploration into the literature surrounding VR left me pleasantly surprised at the depth of research surrounding what I assumed was a much smaller niche. Just scraping the surface, …
What's VR? Virtual Reality (VR) is the use of computer technology to create a simulated environment around the user. VR has been portrayed in numerous ways throughout sci-fi, from Star Trek's Holodeck, to the Matrix's Headjack, and Pygmalion's Spectacles. The implementation of we are currently living with is much closer to the 80's vision of VR - …
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