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. …

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…

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

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.

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…

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…

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. …

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’m writing this a couple of weeks in to the UK’s lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic. …