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Published in Virtual Reality MOOC

·Jul 17, 2021

Is Half-life Alyx the future of VR or a return to the past?

I only dug out this post, which I wrote in April 2020, in the height of the first lockdown, but never got around to publishing (things started getting very busy with the pivot to online teaching). I thought I should finally put it out Like many of us who have…

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Is Half-life Alyx the future of VR or a return to the past?

Virtual Reality

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Published in Machine Learning for All

·May 19, 2020

Explainable AI and Science

I published a post a couple of weeks ago based on a paper that I wrote with my father about AI and the philosophy of science. It was an updating of a book that he had written in the 90s about AI and Scientific method. …

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Published in Virtual Reality MOOC

·May 13, 2020

Mel Slater: becoming a better person through VR embodiment

On Monday, Mel Slater, VR pioneer (and my former boss), gave a public talk as part of the Frontiers in Virtual Reality lecture series co-organised by my colleague Xueni ‘Sylvia’ Pan. Though I’m very familiar with Mel’s work, every time I hear him speak he brings some new insights…

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Mel Slater: becoming a better person through VR embodiment

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Published in Machine Learning for All

·May 11, 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method

I recently did something I don’t normally do, I collaborated on an academic paper with my father, Donald Gillies. …

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Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method

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Published in Virtual Reality MOOC

·May 9, 2020

Why Use Social VR in Lockdown?

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post comparing Social VR with video calling as methods for keeping in touch and working during lockdown. VR vs Video Conferencing I’m writing this a couple of weeks in to the UK’s lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic. This is my first chance to take a…medium.com Since then we had a class in Altspace for our Masters in Virtual and Augmented Reality. It was nice to get a chance to use…

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Published in Machine Learning for All

·May 8, 2020

Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence

This week I did a “lockdown lecture”, part of a series of talks from academics in Goldsmiths, Department of Computing. They are a way of keeping in touch with our current students, prospective students and wider public during the COVID-19 lockdown. It was great to make contact with a lot…

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Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence

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Published in Virtual Reality MOOC

·Apr 27, 2020

Movement and Object Focused Interaction

There are many ways of classifying different types of VR interaction. These classifications have different uses. Our MOOC describes various exotic forms such as Natural Interaction, Magical Interaction, Passive Interaction and Non-Diegetic Interaction. …

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Published in Virtual Reality MOOC

·Apr 20, 2020

Technology and power differences in social VR

In my last post I talked about Social VR and mentioned an important paper by Mel Slater, Anthony Steed and colleagues, called Small-Group Behavior in a Virtual and Real Environment: A Comparative Study. I thought I should talk about it in a bit more detail as it has important implications…

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