Psychologist Jay Smart and his students using a virtual star-field to study postural sway and understand it’s relationship to motion sickness and cyber sickness. Using the CAVE’s built-in motion capture system, they can record high-resolution data about the natural movement of people who are otherwise attempting to stand still. Patterns in the movement of study [...]
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Understanding Motion Sickness
Thursday, October 11th, 2012AIMS Students building virtual campus
Thursday, October 11th, 2012Students in this semester’s IMS319 class (3D Modeling and Animation) are the first of several classes who will together build a digital interactive 3D model of Miami University’s campus, past and present. The quality of work from these students is outstanding, and sets a great foundation for the long-term growth of this project. A few [...]
Students Building Unique CAVE Game
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012This semester, a motivated team of AIMS students are working to build a unique game that takes advantage of the unique qualities of a 4-walled CAVE display system. Players will be able to literally step into the immersive 3D game environment and interact with the environment using motion-tracked controls. Details to follow…
AIMS Enters Z Space
Tuesday, January 17th, 20123D is largely relegated to eye-candy these days, with 2D controls and traditional user interfaces plus some “pop-out” imagery. However, I have high hopes that 3D can become much more as we find creative ways to expand user experiences and create truly 3D user interfaces. The Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect systems are good examples [...]
Student Projects – Fall 2011
Sunday, December 11th, 2011This past semester, our AIMS students produced several high-quality 3D modeling and animation projects using Autodesk’s Maya software. Here are a few… Elizabeth Young: Box model of US United States – Bizzy Young Fall 2011 Elly O’Leary: Mousetrap Mouse – Elly O’Leary Spring 2011 Baseball Stadium: Jacob Berding Night View – Jacob [...]
