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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Docu-video from VR Workshop with Gada Jane and SpiderWebShow Performance

September 14 and 15, 2018, four playwrights came to the GI for an intensive workshop on VR filmmaking. The workshop was hosted by Gada Jane, Research Associate at the GI, and Michael Wheeler, Co-Creator and Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow Performance.

The playwrights were Erin Brandenburg, playwright and director, Rosamund Small, playwright and writer, Nicolas Billon, playwright and screenwriter, and Ahmad Meree, playwright and performer.

Monday, October 1, 2018

VR Working Group predicting motion sickness in VR

Last week, neurophysiologists and VR researchers at the University of Waterloo started making headlines because of their findings on how to predict which VR users might be more susceptible to cybersickness.

Séamas Weech, Jessy Varghese, and Michael Barnett-Cowan, members of the VR working group at the Games Institute, co-authored a paper entitled "Estimating the sensorimotor components of cybersickness" published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Monday, June 10, 2024

The Games Institute Seed Symposium - A Retrospective

On April 19th, the Games Institute (GI) celebrated the conclusion of its 2022 seed grant program with “Disrupting Disciplinary Divides for a Digital Future” – a research symposium. The symposium not only demonstrated the outcomes of 8 separate research projects but also what makes the GI stand out as a unique research ecosystem.