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Results for Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments. 8 records matched your search request.



Areas of expertise: Perception, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Computational Modeling, Mathematical Modeling, Psychology, Neuroscience, Programming, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. in Psychology, Stanford University M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University A.B. in Mathematics, Harvard University


Areas of expertise: Egyptology, Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Ancient World / Classics, History


Biography, Education and Training

  Elaine A. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her born-digital publication, Constructing the Sacred, utilizes a geo-temporal 3D model of the necropolis of Saqqara (near modern Cairo) to investigate questions of ritual landscape and visibility at the site. This digital monograph (https://constructingthesacred.org, Stanford University Press, 2020) was awarded prizes by the Amer... more »


Areas of expertise: Media Art, New Media, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Animation, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Critical Practice, Social Documentation, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments


Biography, Education and Training

I am an Associate Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California Santa Cruzn with affiliations in the Digital Arts and New Media Program (DANM), the Art & Design: Games + Playable Media (AGPM), and the Social Documentation Program (SocDoc). I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in media arts production, history, and theory. I advise students at the undergraduate, M.F.A., and Ph.D. levels. As a first-generation middle school, high school, and college graduate, I w... more »

Press Contact

criticalrealitiesstudio@gmail.com


Areas of expertise: Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental Justice, Digital Arts, Digital Humanities, Digital Media, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory


Biography, Education and Training

micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel Atoms Never Touch (forthcoming October AK Press 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke UP 2022) was the co-winner of the Glor... more »

Aviv Elor

Aviv Elor

Adjunct Professor, Co-Founder of Immergo Labs

Computational Media

Areas of expertise: Human Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Game Technology, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Computer Engineering


Biography, Education and Training

My life has led me through a journey of varying experiences such as optimizing autonomous drones with NASA Researchers, working security for Super Bowl 50, creating efficient traffic management systems, assembling high voltage electric car circuits, coaching K-8 judo, fiddling around with robotic exosuits, building robotic doggos, and designing interactive virtual environments. After tearing my elbow in a national judo match and undergoing reconstructive surgery, I became a passionate developer ... more »


Areas of expertise: Asian American Pacific Islander History, Visual Arts, Indigenous Arts, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Science and Technology, New Media, Literature, Performance


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. English (Literature), University of California, Riverside | Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science |   M.A. English (Literature), University of California, Riverside | Awarded with Distinction |   B.A. English, University of Hawaii at Manoa    A.A. Liberal Arts, Leeward Community College  Dr. Nicole Ku'uleinapuananioliko'awapuhimelemeleolani Furtado was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and has lived in California over the last six years.... more »

Samantha Gorman

Samantha Gorman

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computational Media

Press Contact

Shannon Deoul

shannon@razpr.com


Areas of expertise: Digital Arts, Performance, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Digital Humanities, Writing, Direction (Theater), Literature, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, New Media


Biography, Education and Training

Samantha Gorman is an interdisciplinary writer, director and artist who does practice-based research in interactive narrative, games, digital performance/theater, and the theory and practice of immersive media (AR/VR). Since 2014, she has been the co-lead of established art/game studio Tender Claws.   She is known for projects that make critical, creative interventions in form/technology (e-readers, mobile VR, AR, machine learning, biometrics), while also functioning as commercially relea... more »

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