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Beyond Virtual and Augmented Reality

Speaker: Kai Kunze With recent development in capture technology, preserving one's’ daily experiences and one's’ knowledge becomes richer and more comprehensive. Furthermore, new recording technologies beyond simple audio/video recordings become available: 360° videos, tactile recorders and even odor recorders are becoming available. . The new recording technology and the massive amounts of data require new means for selecting, displaying and sharing experiences. Sharing experiences and knowledge have always been essential for human development. They enable skill transfers and empathy. Over history, mankind developed from oral traditions to cultures of writing. With the ongoing digital revolution, the hurdles to share knowledge and experiences vanish. Already today it is, for example, technically feasible to take and store 24/7 video recordings of one's’ life. While this example creates massive collections of data, it makes it even more challenging to share experiences and knowledge with others in meaningful ways. A recurring theme in science fiction literature is the download of the abilities of another human to one's mind. Although current cognitive science and neuroscience strongly suggest that this is impossible, as our minds are embodied; we believe that skill transfer and effective learning will accelerate tremendously given recent technological trends; just to name a few of the enabling technologies, human augmentation using virtual/augmented reality, new sensing modalities (e.g. affective computing) and actuation (e.g. haptics), advances in immersive storytelling (increasing empathy, immersion, communication) etc. The talk starts with sensing and actuation technology, giving an overview about them and discussing how they can be used. I’m discussing several novel upcoming sensing modalities for VR and AR, first of all eye movement analysis for interaction and activity recognition, introducing the pupil eye tracker (open source eye tracker fr

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  • Originally Aired December 30, 2016
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Production Code 8225
  • Created December 28, 2016 by
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