1. Procedurals Exam Readings Experiments

2. Virtual Reality as a Communication Medium Define VR, discuss central concepts People interacting with virtual people Collaborative Virtual Environments

3. VR in Popular Culture

5. VR in the Real World Expensive Rare Clunky Poor Fidelity but… Getting Better!

6. What is VR? William Gibson: ‘consensual hallucination’ Jaron Lanier: ‘new post-symbolic paradigm" which circumvents representation with a direct experience’

7. Defining VR: Immersion/Presence Computer-generated environments that give the user the experience of being there

8. Defining VR: Immersion/Presence How do you define Presence?

9. Defining VR: Digital?

11. Defining VR: Tracking and Rendering

14. Defining VR: Virtual Human Representation

17. Immersive Virtual Environment Apparatus (HMD)

18. Immersive Virtual Environment Apparatus: CAVE

19. Haptics

20. Proxemics Studied extensively in the social sciences since 1950’s Do proxemic patterns hold true with virtual humans? Social Presence/Copresence

21. Sample Proxemics Task

22. Sample Data

23. Mutual Gaze Study: Task

24. Mutual Gaze Study: Conditions

25. Mutual Gaze Study: Results

27. Meters Minimum Distance (Virtual Human vs. Control Condition) Mutual Gaze Study: Results

28. Meters Minimum Distance (Gaze by Gender) Mutual Gaze Study: Results

29. Virtual Human Representation Study Independent Variables: –Subject Gender –Virtual Human Gender –Gaze (eyes closed vs. mutual gaze) –‘Soul’ (Agent/Avatar) Agents Avatars

30. Virtual Human Representation: Results Meters Minimum Distance

31. Approaching Virtual Human Study

32. Virtual Human Approach Results

33. Stranger Tutor Virtual Human Status/Politeness Effects

34. Collaborative Virtual Environments

36. Multiple people sharing virtual space “Co-presence”, “Tele-Presence”, “Social Presence” Perceptually convincing No true avatars Why not a videoconference?

38. CVE Apparatus: COCODEX

39. Police Lineups

41. Virtual Human Interaction Lab http://vhil.stanford.edu