[tech] [ucc] Looking for inspirational and educational uses for an HTC Vive

[Oscar Hermoso]

Thanks Nick,

This is super cool!

Definitely along the lines of what UCC is looking for! Thanks!

Kind regards,

Oscar Hermoso Clarke
*President*
University Computer Club
m: 0420 784 608
a: 66 Minora Road, Dalkeith WA 6009
w: ucc.asn.au  e: oscar.hermoso at ucc.asn.au

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Nick Young <nick.young at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Hi Oscar,
>
> I work at the Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland, New
> Zealand. We have an HTC Vive and have already had some researchers
> provide datasets for me to produce visualisations within the Vive,
> using Unity.
>
> Take a look at:
>
> https://github.com/UoA-eResearch/MolecularVive - PDB Molecule viewer
> https://github.com/UoA-eResearch/river_vive - Photogrammetry of a
> river near New Zealand's East Cape
> https://github.com/UoA-eResearch/early_universe - A visualisation of
> energy density of the early universe
> https://github.com/UoA-eResearch/PhotosphereViewer - Experience what
> it's like to stand in my office :P
>
> In each case I've provided an x64 Windows build under the releases
> section. Feel free to use these as an example of what UoA is using the
> Vive for, or what you could use your potential Vive for. Hope that
> helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
> On 11 November 2016 at 23:40, Sarah McCabe-Dansted
> <sarah.quail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Oscar Hermoso" <oscarhermoso852 at gmail.com>
> > Date: 11/11/2016 10:17 pm
> > Subject: [ucc] Looking for inspirational and educational uses for an HTC
> > Vive
> > To: <tech at ucc.asn.au>, "committee" <committee at ucc.asn.au>, "University
> > Computer Club" <ucc at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> > Cc:
> >
> > Hi UCCers,
> >
> > At the start of this year, one of my goals was to acquire a Vive headset
> for
> > the club. Our committee applied for a Special Projects Grant through the
> > Guild, but we got less money than we expected. Committee has still been
> > understandably reluctant to spend the money so I began looking into other
> > avenues to get one.
> >
> > A close friend of mine received a free headset from Gabe Newell after
> > contacting him personally about converting his game to VR, so I also sent
> > him a message, hopefully so that he could extend his generosity to UCC.
> >
> > Gabe quickly forwarded my email to an organisation known as foundry10, of
> > which he is a cofounder. foundry10 are all about forward-thinking
> teaching
> > and learning, and have a VR program where they distribute Vives to
> > organisations so that they can run their own inspirational and
> educational
> > experiences.
> >
> > And here we are, we've done a little brainstorming at committee meeting
> > today, but for UCC to get a Vive, we really need to come up with some
> unique
> > and cool ideas to pitch to foundry10.
> >
> > All ideas are welcome and appreciated, anything that could be enhanced or
> > explored with VR, really.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > [CHS]
> >
> >
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