This is an investigation in how VR can simulate experiences designed for large scale immersive environments. Immersive display and interaction environments and systems have been utilised in simulation, visualisation, entertainment, the arts and museological context for a long time before VR made its resurgence only a few years back. These systems include amongst others 360 degree cylindrical projection environments [3], curved screens, hemispherical projection systems [1] and multi-perspective installations [2]. In comparison to traditional screen based media, immersive environments provide a unique delivery platform for ultra-high resolution digital content at a real-world scale and for multiple simultaneous viewers. This makes them the ideal stage for impactful experiences in public museums, festivals and exhibitions. Applications and experiences created for a specific platform rely on the complex and costly technical infrastructure they were originally designed for. Descriptions and video documentation only go so far in illustrating an immersive experience. The embodied aspect, the emotional engagement and the dimensional extend, central to immersion, is mostly lost in translation. This project offers a prototypical implementation of a large scale virtual exhibition incorporating various immersive environments and applications situated within a fictional 3D scene (Figure 1). The focus is on simulation and conservation of existing applications and to create test bed for future projects.

course Share on Generation and real-time visualization of high-resolution RGB pointcloud data for place representation in immersive applications Author: Volker Kuchelmeister University of New South Wales, Sydney University of New South Wales, SydneyView Profile Authors Info & Claims SA '17: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 CoursesNovember 2017 Article No.: 4Pages 1–128https://doi.org/10.1145/3134472.3136557Published:27 November 2017Publication History 0citation408DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads408Last 12 Months11Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

The Amnesia Atlas constitutes a pilot study for a photographic media interface as memory prosthesis. It utilises the wearable life-logging camera SenseCam to shed light on the importance of photographic imagery and place for memory retrieval. It investigates the relationships of spatiotemporal context on memory encoding and retrieval, utilising immersive 3D visualisation. It is doing so by locating geo-tagged SenseCam image sequences within a virtual representation of the place they were captured at. Using an interactive map as a navigational interface, visitors are able to engage with the imagery in their spatial context, and retrace individual journeys by freely explore this virtual representation. The capacity of a viewer to experience ‘presence’ in relation to a place is known to be beneficial to memory encoding and retrieval, and so is the stimulation with multiple cues. The Amnesia Atlas provides users with a rich audio-visual context to view and interact with SenseCam recordings, and has the potential to be a valuable tool in memory research.

In this video I present a novel interactive cinema platform, the Panoramic Navigator, for the expression of stereoscopic 3D panoramic and multi-viewpoint spaces of representation, in which participants embark on an embodied journey of discovery.