New visualisation suite hardware

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CeR visualisation suite includes:

2 HP Z portable VR backpacks (along with another 2 HTC Vive’s to go with them),
2 TPCAST wireless adaptors to go with our existing fixed Vive’s,
another 3 hololenses (bringing us up to 6 total),
a surface pro + surface dial + pen (for casting drawings to the 86″ TV),
an SSD (for the machine learning box),
a pair of ODG R7 smartglasses,
4 Galaxy S8 smartphones,
4 Google Daydream headsets,
and 4 Samsung Gear VR headsets (portable VR).

This project is open source at https://github.com/uoa-eresearch/river_gear_vr

Braided River Confluence by jtunnicl-nz on Sketchfab

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River Gear VR controls

This new hardware greatly expands our ability to support portable research – to take VR/AR experiences elsewhere either on campus, elsewhere in NZ or overseas. Shortly after the Gear VR headsets arrived, Jon Tunnicliffe from the School of Environment took them to Ngata Memorial College in Ruatoria to demo the Tapuaeroa river models in VR. Jon created these models from drone photography using Agisoft Photoscan, a technique known as photogrammetry. CeR staff members Nick Young and Warrick Corfe-Tan developed a multi-user application to view these models with Unity. Users could see each others position in the models over local wifi.