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How to Build a Virtual World: Part III – Materials, Lights and Shadow Dec. 10th

Post author By Jules
Post date December 8, 2015

The nature of textures, light and shadow will be explored.

Thursday December 10 2015 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Theatre 301B, (south building), 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The most potent of virtual world experiences is the striking effect of how light interacts with materials and casts shadows.

RSVP is required. Get tickets at: https://www.picatic.com/event14478716567523184

Mike Pan will cover how textures interact with light. i.e. specular maps and gloss functions, with the ultimate goal being cinematic realism, which is actually different from what our eyes can see. His presentation will include some definitions of basic concepts and processes of texturing a model and how they are applied.

Aaron Hilton will talk about the cinematic use of Light and Shadow to drive the VR narrative; the art of light and shadow. He will also cover how the lack of an avatar representing the user can be worked around. Light and contrast can be used to direct attention. Creating a gradient of dark to light to help orient someone to where they need to go next.

The presentations will be followed by a period for Q & A.

We will close the evening with prize draws for: EA Games, Video Copilot Optical Flares plugins for Adobe After Effects and we will also be giving away three $99.00 licenses for Allegorithmic’s Substance Bitmap2Material 3. Bitmap2Material is an incredibly powerful tool that helps you generate full, seamlessly tiling materials from any bitmap image. This now includes all PBR (Physically-Based Rendering) channels, based on the most accurate conversion algorithm out there. Check it out here:

Snacks will be provided by our wonderful caterer Heather Ferguson.

Many thanks to our sponsors: Conquer Mobile, G-Technology & Emily Carr University of Art & Design.

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How to Build a Virtual World: Part II – Creating 3D Assets, Nov 18th 2015

Post author By Jules
Post date November 17, 2015

How to Build a Virtual World: Part II – Creating 3D Assets

Creating the assets for your 3D world, sourcing available 3D models, capturing the world with photogrammetry and depth cameras.

Wednesday November 18th 2015. 6:30 doors open Presentation 7:30-10pm

Location: Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Motion Capture Studio, Room 285D, 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada

VanVR, VanCG Meetup, and S3D Centre at Emily Carr University presents: “How To Build A Virtual World”

NOTE: doors will open at 6:30 PM. Presentations will begin at 7:30 PM. SEATING IS LIMITED. No tickets will be sold at the door.

Collecting the parts for your 3D world. Sourcing available 3D models, creating your own, capturing the world with photogrammetry and depth cameras.

Mike Pan will share his expertise with Blender: overview of the workflow in Blender, accessing models online, importing them into Blender, optimizing the model, exporting it for the VR platform of your choice.

Partick Wirt from Corbel 3D will explain the process of creating models using photogrammetry.

Aaron Hilton of Conquer Mobile will discuss recent developments in 3D scanning technology and give us a demonstration of his Occipitals’ Structure Sensor used for on the fly object scanning.

Matthew McCauley founder of GeoSim will talk to us about their high end-to-end system for scanning and modeling entire cities in 3D. The models feature high spatial precision and visual fidelity, and are interactive and parametric. Proprietary street level data collection enables entirely new kinds of city analysis and visualization.

The presentations will be followed by a period for Q & A.

We will close the evening with prize draws for: EA Games, Video Copilot Optical Flares plugins.

Food will be provided by our wonderful caterer Heather Ferguson.

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The Future of Reality: a talk by Dr. Ken Perlin of NYU Media Research Lab, Nov. 6th

Post author By Jules
Post date November 2, 2015

You are invited to a special evening with Dr. Ken Perlin of NYU Media Research Lab.

When: Friday, November 6th Doors @ 5 pm, presentation 5:30 – 7:00pm

Admission: FREE (must register in advance, sorry but no walk ins)

Register: https://perlin2015vancouver.eventbrite.ca

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Ken Perlin
Professor & Researcher, NYU Media Research Lab

Ken Perlin, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, directs the NYU Games For Learning Institute, and is a participating faculty member in the NYU Media and Games Network (MAGNET). He was also founding director of the Media Research Laboratory and director of the NYU Center for Advanced Technology. His research interests include graphics, animation, augmented and mixed reality, user interfaces, science education and multimedia. He received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television, as well as the 2008 ACM/SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the TrapCode award for achievement in computer graphics research, the NYC Mayor’s award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Perlin currently serves on the program committee of the AAAS. He was general chair of the UIST2010 conference, and has been a featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Dr. Perlin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard University. Before working at NYU he was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY. Prior to that he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Digital Media at GNWC, and has served on the Board of Directors of both the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH and the New York Software Industry Association.

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin

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How to Build a Virtual World: a 6-part series on VR content creation

Post author By Jules
Post date October 13, 2015

Series to assist Vancouver-area businesses and individuals in the creation of virtual reality experiences, environments. Read more.

PART 1: The Business of VR begins this month: Is VR a bubble? We’ll ask key content producers, investors, and luminaries to give us the broad perspective.

Date: Thursday October 22 2015 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

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Next Event: July 29th, 6-9:30pm: Prototyping the Future with special guest Dr. Ken Perlin (NYU)

Post author By Jules
Post date July 7, 2015

The S3D Centre at Emily Carr, Spark CG Society, VanVR & VanCG are bringing you a very special evening with Dr. Ken Perlin of NYU Media Research Lab.

When:	Wednesday, July 29 Doors @ 6 pm, presentation 7pm
Admission:	FREE (must register in advance, sorry but no walk ins)
Where:	Motion Capture Studio, 2nd Floor, Noth BuildingS3D Centre, Emily Carr University, 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC
Register:	kenperlin.eventbrite.ca (register early- limited seating)

We are going to try and have Ken’s experience available, depending on the logistics of the day. If you are interested in trying it, we’ll keep you posted via these Eventbrite notifications so be sure to register! We will also be showing demonstrations of games, apps, and VR experiences created by members of our community. They are fantastic so make sure to come early and give them a try.

Prototyping the Future: The question our lab at NYU is asking is “How might people in the future communicate with each other in every day life, as computation and display technologies continue to develop, to the point where computer-mediated interfaces are so ubiquitous and intuitive as to be imperceptible?” To address this, we are doing sensor fusion between GearVR and OptiTrack technologies. Participants walk freely around and untethered by any wires, in physical space, interacting with other people and physical objects, just as they do in everyday life. Yet everything those participants see is computer-mediated, thereby allowing them to share any reality they wish, simulating the experience of future high resolution contact lenses.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Ken Perlin
Professor & Researcher, NYU Media Research Lab

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin

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Ali Kazimi Master Filmmaking Class – S3D

Post author By Jules
Post date March 2, 2015

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Filmmaker Ali Kazimi will give a master class on his filmmaking career.

Ali Kazimi is a documentary filmmaker whose research interests include race, migration, indigineity, history and memory, with a particular interest in South Asia and Canada. He also has a keen interest in emerging and cutting-edge digital image technologies, and is a collaborative researcher in the interdisciplinary Future Cinema Lab in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. He is currently engaged in the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), an academic/industry partnership that will expand capacity for 3D film production in the GTA and Ontario.

Visit Ali Kazimi bio to learn more.

Ali Kazimi Master Filmmaking Class
Wednesday, March 4 | 6:30pm
Aboriginal Gathering Place
1399 Johnston Street (behind main building)

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Vancouver Virtual Reality Event- Feb. 23rd ’15 at Emily Carr

Post author By Jules
Post date February 17, 2015

Please join the S3D Centre at Emily Carr and VanVR Meetup group on Monday February 23rd at the MOCAP studio inside Intersections Digital Studios @ Emily Carr! In our fourth partnered event with VanVR, we showcase for a very first public look the work of our team at Emily Carr for a wearable VR glove. As always, attendees will be encouraged to experience all the demos with wireless VR headsets and other tools provided by the evening’s special guests!

We are packing in some incredible experiences, including:

Destination BC / This Is DARE – VR Tourism Experience of BC

Emily Carr University team – A brand new wearable glove for VR

Lamper VR – How far can you fly as a small bug in a HUGE world?

uForis – experience 360-degree panoramas of real locations, videos, and 3D spaces

VRChat – Use VRChat to quickly and efficiently add multiplayer to any world you can create in Unity3D

Please navigate to the VanVR meetup page to RSVP your attendance. The guest list will be tightly controlled on the evening of the event to avoid excessive wait times for the demos and overcrowding. Thank you for understanding!

Follow the signs for “MOCOP Studio, Intersections Digital Studios” once inside Emily Carr.

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‘The Internet’ VR demo by student Kushal Goenka, Monday Nov 17th

Post author By Jules
Post date November 13, 2014

Please join the S3D Centre at Emily Carr and VanVR Meetup group on Monday Nov 17th, 7pm at the MOCAP studio inside Intersections Digital Studios @ Emily Carr University of Art + Design! In our third partnered event with VanVR, we showcase the work of our undergraduate student Kushal Goenka with his creation “The Internet” UE4 VR environment. Attendees will be encouraged to experience the demo with the VR headsets provided, including David Clements latest generation VR headset design.

“Through the use of a Virtual Reality headset, the Oculus Rift in this case, the user will be able to enter this space – this vast intangible library. The environment attempts to convey the magnitude of the internet, while also reminding the viewer of the isolation that one can experience in this space as one may behind the screen of a laptop.”

When: Monday November 17th, 7pm

Where: MOCAP studio inside Intersections Digital Studios @ Emily Carr University of Art + Design

More info: VanVR Meetup page

Download Kushal’s PDF in full here: KushalGoenka_TheInternet

Check out the videos from previous events:

• VR night at The Sawmill, by The Vancouver Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4KTxI78xk

• VR night at Emily Carr S3D, by Johnny Ostrem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb5edbz4tu0

• Van Virtual Reality at Vancouver Hackspace, by James McCartney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BRtNgLIWMM

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New Partnership between the S3D Centre and 3D Innovation Center

Post author By Jules
Post date August 25, 2014

August 25th 2014 – The S3D Centre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the 3D Innovation Center (3DIC) in Berlin, Germany are now partners.

With both establishments having a rich history in stereoscopic 3D, virtual reality and advanced imaging projects and expertise, we look forward to collaborating together!

This will occur through the sharing of research and resources; collaborations on projects and R&D; co-presentations when applicable; and work together in advocating for academic, business and personal adoption of advanced imaging tools and concepts, visual and immersive technologies. We are also exploring ideas around student exchanges and co-research as our relationship progresses.

The formalization of the partnership comes just in time for 3DIC’s two-year anniversary. Find out more online.

ABOUT : The 3DIC was initiated by Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin, which is responsible for the structure and organization. www.3dinnovationcenter.de

Mission: Synergies through Collaborations!

The 3D Innovation Center Berlin offers the whole cast of actors a new platform of 600qm in a pre-competitive environment where they can exchange views and opinions, build contacts, put their products and systems to the test and present them jointly to a diversity of target audiences. The given know-how covering the whole 3D systems chain will generate new synergies – in terms of product development, marketing and sales as well as market positioning and public relations.