by Neil Christensen | Nov 4, 2019 | AR, Opinions, Photogrammetry, Rendering, Software, Theater, Thoughts, VR, XR
Thesis Defense After nailing down my thesis in the summer it was time to convene my defense committee. This was more of a challenge than it appeared as committee member schedules needed to be taken into consideration. We eventually targeted November after September...
by Neil Christensen | Apr 10, 2019 | AR, Photogrammetry, Theater, VR, XR
Bury The Wren Wow! After months of testing, building and workshopping with our fantastic actors, Val Planche and Val Campbell, the Alchemy Festival at the University of Calgary came and went like a flash. Our AR/VR/Carbon Reality experience had a couple of technical...
by Neil Christensen | Sep 21, 2018 | AR, Theater, VR, XR
CPSC 601 This is my last course requirement so I really wanted to push the possibilities as well as the concept I’ve pursued the past year of the perception of reality in XR apps. I met Beth Kates in Christian Jacob’s Lindsay Lab in January of 2018 and we...
by Neil Christensen | Aug 24, 2018 | AR, Opinions, Thoughts, VR, XR
Altered Perception Expanding on the initial writing of ‘Discerning the Natural from the Virtual in Extended Reality Applications’ I really dug into researching the idea of reality in other disciplines. What I kept encountering was the idea of perception...
by Neil Christensen | Apr 10, 2018 | AR, Opinions, Software, Thoughts
Xscape I’ve been doing a lot of R&D for my thesis ‘Discerning the Natural from Simulation in Extended Reality Applications” and decided to make an AR app to demonstrate some of my findings. I used photogrammetry scans of fruit and lit everything...
by Neil Christensen | Jan 3, 2018 | AR, Rendering, Thoughts, VR
I had a great discussion with Tim Davison, Evil Genius and Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science department. We also happen to share an office so it makes for some excellent deep dives into theory and the current state of game engines, AR, VR and sometimes Sci-fi....
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