My "murder" wall trying to tie everything together in the early days of my PhD journey.

I passed my Ph.D. defence today!

And nominated for a senate medal as well 🙂 I am so thankful to the Carleton University and Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology communities and commitees for their support in exploring more inclusive VR for...

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On Virtual Reality in Education

I am currently a multimedia Professor at Algonquin College, and a PhD student exploring the boundaries of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) , and their use in future education, at Carleton University. VR in education has a...

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Oculus Launchpad Experience 0.11

Introduction The past few months have been a bit crazy; but we made it to end of the Oculus Launchpad program with a WebVR prototype submitted. A great deal has been learned and here I will talk...

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Oculus Launchpad Experience 0.10

Introduction This past two weeks have been bringing everything to a focus point that exhibits our “experience loop” to make it easy for Oculus to see the potential in our proposal, as well as its intent for...

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Oculus Launchpad Experience 0.9

Introduction This past two weeks have been an interesting sprint into getting some 3D content we can start to build interactions into into; while also better designing both the front and back-end. Also we have had many...

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Oculus Launchpad Experience 0.8

Introduction This week has been fine-tuning the back-end, creating a name a logo we can come together on, and ruminating on how best to showcase the various platform functionalities for our September prototype deadline.

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Oculus Launchpad Experience 0.7

Introduction This week has been some about some small styling changes and exploring other worlds. Also lots of thought on how VR can help us better understand all our many different realities and connections to everything else...

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Oculus Launchpad Experience 0.6

Introduction This week has been a period of reflection and project clarity, while also building small but necessary components with the team. Trying to determine the precise objectives of the project while building it is exhausting; but...

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Oculus Launchpad Experience 0.5

Introduction These past few weeks have been about experimenting with WebVR, Aframe, and Mozilla HUBs server side WebRTC/Janus implementations to create a starting point for own socialVR platform. The team now has a clear idea of...

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Oculus Launchpad Experience 0.4

Introduction After getting the team together, this past week has been mostly talking with everyone and making sure we are all supported so that we can start moving forward with further ideation and creation.

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