Mel Slater
Department of Computer Science
University College London

London WC1E 6BT

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 3709
Fax +44 (0)20 7387 1397
Email: m.slater@cs.ucl.ac.uk

 

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Presencia

Studies of Presence across different senses.

 

Virtual Light

Exploration of a paradigm to provide real-time walkthrough of globally illuminated scenes.

 

VR in Psychotherapy for Social Phobias

To reproduce situations which tend to induce social anxiety for some people, as part of a process of therapy. 

 

Completed Projects

Acting in VR

To assess the extent to which professional actors can successfully use shared VEs to rehearse, although physically separate from one another.

 

Task Performance with Immersion

To assess performance in a modelling task as a function of the level of immersion.

 

 

Collaboration in Tele-Immersive Environments

Internet2 is used to maintain shared virtual environments between UCL, UNC and MIT.

 

 

Prometheus

Realtime Cloth Simulation

The Prometheus 3D Virtual Reality broadcast studio platform is being researched and developed by a consortium including the BBC and British Telecom.

 

COVEN

Collaborative Virtual Environments