UH: 3004 Topics in Honors Colloquia

UH: 3004 Topics in Honors Colloquia

2016/2017 Wintermester

Honors colloquia are available to honors students with sophomore standing except where noted. If a course is full, please contact the professor to inquire about force-add possibility.

UH 3004: Immersive Virtual Environments for Art, Data, and Research

This Winter Semester 2017 workshop will teach students from all departments and fields how to use the immersive environment facilities at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology in the Moss Center for the Arts.

This intensive class will focus on giving students hands-on time with the equipment and software for motion capture, spatial audio, and virtual reality. A final project involving at least two of the available systems will provide students with a tangible take-away.

No prior experience is necessary or expected! We invite students from all departments to discover these cutting-edge technologies and imagine how they can be utilized within their own disciplines.

Please contact the instructors for additional information:

Zachary Duer, | Tanner Upthegrove <

To get some sense of the kinds of opportunities available in this course, please:

1) see the attached images,

2) watch these videos of VR displays of tornado and particle physics data created in our facility,

http://tinyurl.com/VTCube

http://tinyurl.com/VTCube2

http://tinyurl.com/VTCube3

3) attend one of the following events:

A) Saturday 10/8, 10am-5pm - Science Festival. In the Cube we will be showing our current work on a pedagogical visualization of the Belle II particle physics detector.

B) Friday 10/21, 8:30am-10am - ICAT Playdate in the Cube - An immersive sound and visualization piece by Virginia Tech professors Eric Lyon and Thomas Tucker will be played and discussed.

C) Friday 12/2, 8:30am-10am - ICAT Playdate in the Cube - Zach Duer and Tanner Upthegrove will be showing off the projects created in the Cube this semester.

D) Monday 12/5, 7:30pm-9:30pm - DISIS Concert - An electroacoustic music concert given by music students working in the Cube.