Life Solved
Extended Reality: The Future of Culture, Services and Business ft. Pippa Bostock & Alex Counsell
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If you thought VR was just for computer games, then think again!
A groundbreaking new centre here at the University of Portsmouth is helping businesses and organisations from every sector transform the way they work.
From defence training to medicine, construction and even curing spider phobias, the University’s Centre for Creative and Immersive Extended Reality (CCIXR) is enabling more people to embrace exciting technology and inspiring the next generation of talent.
Pippa Bostock is the Business Director at the Centre. In this episode of Life Solved, she explains how students working at the centre are referred to as ‘unicorns’ for their rare and sought-after skills in designing the engines behind simulations. What’s more, she shares exciting stories of how they’ve been working with museums and cultural organisations to present information in new and exciting ways for museum goers.
Alex Counsell’s lifelong passion for technology has seen him overseeing the technical side of developing virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality programmes here. If you’re not sure what those terms mean, all is explained in the podcast.
Alex has worked with creative partners in theatre as well as an organisation training journalists and first responders in emergency situations. He says we should all get ready for this kind of tech to be a part of daily life very soon.
USEFUL LINKS
Find out about The CCIXR
https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/ccixr
Follow CCIXR on Twitter
https://twitter.com/UniPortCCIXR?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
What is Extended Reality?
Have you heard of the Metaverse?
https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-metaverse-and-what-can-we-do-there-179200
Work produced by the UoP’s former Motion Capture Studio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds76fUDP1Y4
Alex Counsell
https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/alexander-counsell
Pippa Bostock
https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/pippa-bostock
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