GUAVR Lab - An immersive educational media production & research space EdTech - Review and consider possibilities
Last updated on 27/08/2020
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Description
Learning Futures' GUAVR lab is available by prior arrangement to any staff member looking to produce, trial or undertake research into Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality media - known collectively as Extended Realities, or XR.
Overview
The Learning Futures GUAVR Lab is a flexible research and production space located at Nathan campus in the Willett Centre (N53).
The studio has a number of capabilities, including:
- Virtual Reality headset trial space (4x HTC Vive Pros) for experiencing VR in a state of the art headset in a safe, multiplayer environment
- Multicamera Television recording / live streaming for panel shows, interviews, role plays
- Mixed Reality recording for 'seeing' into a user's virtual reality environment and recording those interactions
- 360˚VR 3D live video presenter lets you present from within a 360 photo or video
- Virtual Studio lets you present from a multicamera video production from within a 3d model, laser scan or photogrammetry model
- Holographic / Volumetric video recording (coming soon) for making live 3d models of people or objects
The GUAVR Lab team welcomes consultation about accessing the studio space from staff who wish to collaborate on creating learning and teaching resources in these new media formats.
Considerations
Multicamera video production / live streaming
360˚ VR Video Presenter
Enabling Technology
The GUAVR Lab is equipped with the following technologies
- 4x HTC Vive Pro Virtual Reality headsets connected to high-spec gaming PCs
- 360 green screen divisable into 2 ‘rooms’
- Blackmagic ATEM 4ME vision switcher and 5x Sony 4k video cameras
- 1x Insta360 Pro live 360˚ 3D video camera
- 4x Sennheiser wireless microphones
- 3x Intel Realsense depth cameras
- 20x LED Lights with remote control
- 1x iPad Pro for AR visualisation
Implement
If you have ideas about learning and teaching assets that you would like to create in the GUAVR Lab, please send an email to the GUAVR Lab team by clicking here. Please be sure to outline your idea, timeframes to completion, etc
Why not book an initial consult to discuss your idea via the booking form below if you're almost ready to go...
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If you're ready to record or stream some multicamera video, you can select 'Reserve a GUAVR Lab record day' to claim a 2.5hr+ session in the studio to go ahead creating an interview, panel show or role-play...
Technology Support
The GUAVR Lab is a collaboration between colleagues throughout Griffith and enabled by the technical staff at Learning Futures. Live and / or remote support will be available during your studio session as arranged during your initial consult.
Pedagogy Support
Teaching in Extended Reality is a new and burgeoning arena and we hope to collaborate with colleagues in order to better understand the best methods as the medium matures.
In 2020, in light of the COVID-19 crisis, we'll be supporting multi-camera video production as much as possible with no cost. Simply book in on the day and time you prefer fo producing multicamera productions. Other capabilites will be assessed on-going to see what we can do to help. Make a booking for an initial consult to discuss your needs.
Contributed by
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Learning Futures
Hugh Gormley
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h.gormley@griffith.edu.au
Licence
© 2024 Griffith University.
Conditions of Use
As part of the Return to Campus coordination, use of the GUAVR Lab will now follow the same process as other short-term campus access, as well as requiring an appointment.
This means all studio users require approval from their Dean (A) or Head of Element before coming on campus. The Deans have all committed to a quick turnaround on this process.
For more information regarding this approval process, please visit the Return to Campus website: https://www.griffith.edu.au/staff/returning-to-campus
ALSO:
Studio users must consider their own safety and the safety of others as being paramount
We welcome a creative spirit and desire to learn
Studio visitors must complete a regular health and safety induction and adhere to it at all times
No eating in the studio. Bottled drinks are welcome if capped
Studio users should leave the studio as, or better than, they found it.
Studio users must not touch any equipment that they have not been specifically trained to use by a LF staff member.
Studio users must be curious and keen to have fun!
Preferred Citation
(2020). GUAVR Lab - An immersive educational media production & research space. Retrieved from https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/exlnt/entry/8448/view