A brand-new facility providing staff, students, and external partners access to cutting edge technology for the creation of immersive experiences.
What does the centre do?
The Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Learning Centre is a brand-new Office for Students (OfS) funded facility providing staff, students, and external partners access to cutting edge technology for the creation of immersive experiences including augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality etc.
Consisting of a multi-functional space for workshop style teaching, networking and design activities that can be transformed into a 13m x 8m motion capture studio. This is complemented by access to a dedicated user-testing facility fully equipped for the evaluation of immersive experiences.
As well as the physical space the AR/VR Learning Centre has a supporting team offering specialist expertise in the design, production, and evaluation of Immersive Experiences at all stages of their development.
How can I use the AR/VR Learning Centre?
The technology and supporting expertise within the AR/VR Learning Centre is available for all staff within the School of Science and Technology to enhance their teaching and research with Immersive Experiences.
All students across the school and wider institution will benefit from Immersive Experiences produced by the AR/VR Learning Centre. Research students and students on relevant programmes will receive specialist teaching within the AR/VR Learning Centre giving them the necessary skills to become immersive creators.
The AR/VR Learning Centre will also be offering facilities hire, consultancy and training courses to external organisations in the near future.
The technology
Mixed reality headsets
- 50 x Pico 4 enterprise headsets
Camera based motion capture
- 12 x OptiTrack camera systems: PrimeX 22
- 2 x camera based body suits
- Motive software
Inertial motion capture
- 2 x perception neuron suit and gloves
- Axis studio software
Hand and finger tracking
- StretchSense: MoCap Pro glove SuperSplay
- Manus Prime X haptic VR gloves
3D scanning
- Creaform HandySCAN Black Elite
Avatar creation and animation
- RealIllusion character creator
- RealIllusion iClone
Immersive experience production
- Unity Game Engine
- Unreal Engine
- ARuVR - content authoring platform
- Maya
- Blender 3D