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Insta filters in the room
My work on the Robin’s eye was a way of testing if you could navigate an audience using a visual effect over the camera feed. At first I looked for AR compass apps, then Peter from VR Craftworks suggested I […]
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360 Quizzer iteration, matching the image
Following up my initial tests with Sara and the forest club I made some more footage out and about in Hollingdean. I chose the old skatepark because I love it and the huge meadow that leads to the dew pond. […]
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Elastic fantastic: Iterating on the way the Quizzer attaches to the phone
The case has to fit all sizes of phones, it would be great if it makes the phone no longer look like a phone. I like this flexy silicone lego… Strip it back a bit. And a bit more…. Found […]
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Funded!
Heard the news that I was accepted for the Developing Your Creative Practice grants from Arts Council England. Fantastic. Now I can get on with the work and have a rest from funding applications! This will enable me to: Learn […]
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Demoing off-location for Caravan at Brighton Festival
It works against a printed background!! So, how could I show existing sequences off-location? I made a low cost print of the background photo and viewed the sequence against it. It worked really well! So I decided to make […]
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Bring on the Dancing Horses
I wanted a demo piece that would work against a live background so arranged with the Dome for access to the Founder’s room in advance and took some photos. Initial ideas to do with the heritage of the Dome […]
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VRLab – gathering user data
Along with Fusebox residents Maf’j Alvarez, Andy Baker, George Butler and Iona Scott, I was invited to demo the Quizzer at TOMtech’s intensive 4 day VRlab, part of Brighton Digital Festival. At first I was unsure why I needed to […]
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Learning Unity
I joined TOMtech‘s Theatre XR training programme for their AR day (5th September 2018) and learned to make images into AR targets using Vuforia. Thanks Simon Wilkinson and James Turnbull at TOMtech. I attended a workshop led by Andy Baker […]
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Binocular Vision, Fusion and Rivalry
I met with optometrists Ritz Cannell and her colleague Claire at The Specky Wren, Brighton and showed them the Quizzer. Both found it easy to use and confirmed what Ritz had told me that it works through binocular vision, which most […]
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Mixed Reality Documentary?
The stories I tell about places come from those locations. I try to make the resonances of a place visible, and part of those resonances are to do with the people who frequent that location. I wanted to pilot ways […]
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Creating the Robin’s Eye with the Immersive Lab, Volumetric Capture Field Trip
Robin’s Eye Robins see the Earth’s magnetic field in one eye. I like the idea of placing a dynamic robin’s eye view of the magnetosphere into one eye using the Quizzer, like a heads up compass. The visualisation above was […]
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Doing the Kanban
I was picked to demo at Caravan Marketplace at Brighton Festival, with a small grant for expenses. I decided to develop a way of showing existing sequences off -location, as well as making a short bespoke sequence for the room where […]