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In January 2023, the School of Science & Technology, City St George’s University of London, secured roughly £2.4m from the Office for Students (OfS) to develop its recent Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Learning Centre, plus further laboratory functions on the School.
The School also entered right into a three-year partnership with ARuVR, a multi-award winning end-to-end, enterprise-grade Extended Reality (XR) training platform to offer its award-winning technology and expertise in support of the Centre and our students.
The Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Learning Centre was officially launched in September 2023, becoming the most important facility of its kind the UK. Â
One yr on from its inception, we reflect on among the exciting projects and events which have been hosted on the Centre.
First annual Immersive Design Sector Forum
On Tuesday 23 January 2024, City St George’s hosted the primary annual Immersive Design Sector Forum, inviting an interdisciplinary group of pros working in Immersive Design (AR/VR/MR/Spatial Computing) from across industries and roles to come back together to learn from each other.
Sheriff Bronek Masojada (The City of London), provided the welcome address, urging participants to contemplate how order and fairness can be maintained within the emerging worlds of augmented and virtual realities. A series of expert talks followed, including Professor Rajkumar Roy, Executive Dean of the School of Science & Technology, setting the scene for what the assembled group could aim to attain together.
The event included networking sessions, demonstrations within the University Building Pavillion and group tours of the University’s recent AR/VR Learning Centre. The event closed with speakers participating in a panel exploring ‘Immersive Education’, covering requirements for training recent Immersive creators and the way Immersive will be applied inside education.
Immersive Education Panel
Urdang motion captured performance
Watch a brief clip of the Urdang performance (motion-captured), and tour of the brand new Centre.
Launch of the VR Wellbeing Fair with Phase Space
On Thursday 4 April, a novel, virtual reality (VR) wellbeing fair was launched by the School of Science & Technology and School of Health & Psychological Sciences, and the University’s Students’ Union.
The VR Wellbeing Fair launch began a series of weekly events, every Wednesday, on the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Learning Centre until the tip of April 2024.
Each event consisted of bookable sessions to immerse oneself in bespoke VR wellbeing content, which offered positive mental health support for workers and students within the run as much as the exam period or otherwise (e.g. workload related stress).
AR/VR in Action
On Tuesday 25 June, the School of Science & Technology hosted its ‘AR/VR in Action’ event on the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Learning Centre, within the Ethical Design Studio (CLG01).
The event explored how Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) is currently getting used in teaching and the way these is likely to be integrated further into teaching practice at City St George’s.
Participants heard presentations from a spread of internal and external speakers:
AR/VR@City – Professor Raj Roy
ARuVR Introduction – Matt Lawson, ARuVR
Demonstration of City/SST Modules:
- Flow Rig Test Module – Professor Christoph Bruecker, City St George’s
- (Read about how the this module was piloted on the School, incorporating an AR/VR training option)
- Grad Manufacturing Area – Keith Pamment, Senior Technician, City St George’s
- Use Cases & How to book The Design Lab – Keith Pamment, City St George’s
- Benefits of AR for aviation maintenance – Professor Ricky Curran, City St George’s
Industry Case Studies:
- Scot Rail – Tom DeFraine, ARuVR
- Construction Example – Tom DeFraine, ARuVR
- S&P Global – Tom DeFraine, ARuVR
MSc delivered inside an AR/VR environment – Marc Lewis, School of Communication Arts
Education inside the VIVERSE environment (HTC) – Nathan Gaydhani, HTC
Demonstration of Apple Vision Pro (spatial computing) and the long run – Tom DeFraine, ARuVR
Hands on with Apple Vision Pro and HTC headset – Tom DeFraine, ARuVR
A questions & answers and discussion session followed the speaker presentations.
Further information
Visit the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Centre webpage.
On Thursday 1 August 2024, City, University of London and St George’s, University of London merged to develop into City St George’s, University of London. Read more in regards to the merger agreement.
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