Category: Projects
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PAL helps secure £5.8M funding for OpenXR Studios for the Open University
The Open University (OU) has secured funding of £5.8m from the Office for Students to develop extended reality studios to expand its teaching and learning with augmented and virtual reality, featuring Prof Wild on the management team and steering group, and as part of the bid writing team. The Open…
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Rapid Reskilling for Textiles & Clothing Businesses
Fridolin Wild presented an invited keynote to the TCBL days conference on November 18, 2021, about “Rapid reskilling for Textiles & Clothing businesses using eXtended Reality”.
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Finalist for Auggie Awards 2020
The UNBODY project, created in a collaboration with the Performance Augmentation Laboratory during its time at Oxford Brookes University, was selected into the finals in the category best AR arts / film for this year’s Auggie Awards at Augmented World Expo (AWE) in California, the leading AR/VR event in the…
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International Astronautical Congress
Dr Fridolin Wild presented our astronaut training and wearable technology work at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington DC, October 21-25, 2019. The paper is entitled ‘Enhancing Crew Training for Exploration Missions: The Wekit Experience’, and it reports on trial results of the solution using a Mars physical surface…
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Augmented Reality for the Enhancement of Space Product Assurance and Safety
Results from a study conducted with and for ESA appeared as journal article in Acta Astronautica, reporting on maturity and potential business value of Augmented Reality for application in space product assurance and safety activities. Results from an online survey and follow up qualitative interviews are summarised, yielding a detailed…
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IF Oxford Science and Ideas Festival
Imagine turning a room into a scale model of the Universe with just a pair of glasses – Augmented Reality is ready to transform the classroom of the 21st century, offering a large variety of significantly different learning opportunities for today’s students. On Sunday, October 20th, three of our lab…
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Connecting Patterns for Sustainability
The TCBL project gathered folk from around the globe for its annual conference, this year in Iași, Romania, on May 28 and 29. This year’s event took place with the motto “Fashion Forward: connecting patterns for sustainability”, emphasising the key concepts of the project of circular, transparent, human, and digital.…
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LAAR – 4th partner meeting
The beginning of September saw me attend the forth (technically my second) of the partner meetings for the LAAR project. This meeting was hosted by the wise Chris Van Goethem, our projects connection to the weird and wonderful world of theatre. The projects use case is training stage-hands using augmented…
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Open Textbook for Augmented Reality
Call for Contributors Teaching how to create and code Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging topic in Higher Education. This should not be confused with the interest of various other subjects to use AR applications and content. Only a few top-tier universities world-wide currently offer courses that give instruction of…
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Effective Learning Analytics for AR learning apps
PAL kicked off a new project on effective learning analytics for Augmented Reality learning apps, project LAAR, at the beginning of October, with partners from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and Liechtenstein. The goal of LAAR is to develop, pilot, and validate an exhaustive set of formative assessment exercises for AR-based vocational…