1/11/2018 Blended Reality at Yale Meeting notes

Date

11 Jan 2018

Attendees

Alan Croswell
Gaspare LoDuca
Chris Chen
Douglas Ward
Jennifer Brown
Jim Bossio
Johannes DeYoung - Yale
Jose W. Diaz
Jose Santiago
Jorge Villa
Jonathan Kornberg
Josephine Tatel
Justin Berry - Yale
Kyle Mandli
Lisa Seales
Letty Moss-Salentijn
Maneesha Aggarwal
Markeisha Ensley
Michael DeMeo
Nicholas Buonincontri
Parixit Dave
Randall Rode - Yale
Shashi Yellambhatla
Stephanie Ogden
Thomas Deely

Meeting goals

Special Presentation on blended reality from colleagues at Yale University

Purpose

To collaborate and share information amongst groups engaged in emerging technologies by discussing and documenting best practices, challenges, and standards and by developing support structure, sharing resources and learning from each other
To foster and support innovation by identifying and engaging forward thinkers interested in getting started and by promoting creative thinking and cross-disciplinary collaborations
To publicize new initiatives and projects as an aggressive marketing strategy to invite industry partners and set up potential collaborations and/or to seek corporate sponsorship

Discussion items

Time	Item	Who	Notes
10min	Welcome	Maneesha Aggarwal/Group	Purpose of group Introductions	Introduction
	Yale Presentation on AR/VR	Randall Rode, Director IT services Johannes DeYoung, Faculty member Justin Berry, Faculty Schools of ARts	Blended Reality Program What is the reason for pursuing this technology? Interdisciplinary approach this technology has a long history that we are expanding on emphasis not on technology, but how the technology can be used VR - users will have an emotional experience beyond the experience in studying alone Making tech accessible and available to everyone at the univeristy with no previous experience required
	Uses		Taxidermy - birds scanning and printing with 3d printer Bathroom design in VR - building designs to facilitate for users with disabilities, different cultures, etc. Game design - student projects School of Architecture student project - creating a unique 3d printer item based on emotional responses to quiz by user. Photography MFA student project - 3d holographic viewing instruments created for theatre or galleries Desk Fruit app Facial tracking paint app
	Uses in Humanities Classes		completed scan of a personal 3d object and then reflecting on it technology used as enablers of thought rather than getting perfect scan
	Reflections after 1st year/Next Steps		Challenges more structure in place, more support available, especially for student projects (Humanities ex.) biggest challenge is time, meeting with other teams to identify challenges Partnership with HP is about $200K Building bridges between different centers allows groups to be informed by eachother Received positive feedback from HP Feedback with student engagement students presenting VR works as thesis and getting others excited, facultly are getting involved Yale Hackathon in February - Climate change Consortium at Yale in June

Action items

Parixit Dave connect Johannes with Lance Weiler and Kyle Mandli