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Interdisciplinary Metaverse Building 2023 -
Interdisciplinary Metaverse Building 2023 -
Using Accessible VR for Interdisciplinary Teaching, Learning and Collaboration.
This project is supported by a SATLE award from the National Forum For the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, granted via CPID the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation and Development TUS.
The aim is to explore the use of accessible user-friendly VR to enable staff and learners from BA to PhD level, to creatively interact and engage within virtual reality. Focus is on exploring the potential of VR for creative collaboration, content creation and the showcasing of projects through the use of virtual spaces, and live events. An OAR Toolkit is also being developed for follow on training.
PI: Dr. Martina Cleary
Research Assistant: Aislinn O’Keeffe
Participating Faculty: Dr. Lisa O’Rourke Scott, Sarah O’Toole,
IT: Annette Bowman.
Project duration: Jan - Dec 2023.
Meeting in the real and Metaverse worlds, Spring 2023.
Damon Frawley (MA) - First experiments in creating virtual space for multimedia installations.
Victor Jakubowski (MA) - Virtual installation of current practice-based studio work - Spring 2023.
Erin Mac Neill (BA) - Virtual meeting space for group assignment on the Psychology of Activism.
First steps into the Metaverse Spring 2023 - Music by Damon Frawley.
Presentation for EdTech Conference 2023 - Dublin
Meeting colleagues from around Ireland and the UK at a Digital Institute workshop.
PMI VR Degree Showcase 2021
PMI VR Degree Showcase 2021
Durring the Covid-19 Lockdowns, students on the BA in Photography Moving Image at LSAD engaged with the challenge of imagining a new format for their Final Year Degree Showcase. In the event a traditional exhibition space an alternative was needed. In addition to collaboratively creating a Web VR Showcase, a range of online technologies and platforms were used to simulate the unique qualities of working together in a Fine Art studio-environment. The project was supported by a LEP Grant from The National Forum For the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning, which enabled resourcing industry partnership with Procad Limerick, also promoting professional practice and authentic cerative industries contact for gratudates.
PI: Dr. Martina Cleary
Participating Faculty: Lorranine Neeson, Sarah O’Toole.
CI Partners: Procad Limerick Designers Gerald O’ Sullivan, Siddhant Jain, Craig Niven and Squarespace Ireland consultant Graham White.
We would like to thank TUS Lecturer Alan Carr from the Dept. of the Built Environment for access to his Moylish Campus Digital Twin resources.
Samples of design and wireframing for building in VR from Jamie Jellett, Caoimin Ni Dhuinn and Aoife Costello (Spring 2021). More examples here.
