Winter2007
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This is the (current, unfinished) website for the CollaboRITorium, RIT's mixed reality collaboration space for interdisciplinary creativity.
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We use this website to...
- document and coordinate our activities (CollabControlPanel)
- showcase our creations,
- live video with sound (when active): http://129.21.178.89/~jiwetc/live.html
- live video, period: http://colabcam.rit.edu/view/index.shtml
- develop and document new ideas,
- recruit new participants
Note: many pages in this website can only be visited by participants (who also create the content).
If you want in, just ask! mailto:schull@digitalgoods.com
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Our activities
History
Innovation and Invention Course
Spring 2006: we begin with a flying fish
In Spring 2006, Jon Schull began offering a course called Innovaton and Invention, in which a multidisciplinary group of students (and their professor) set out to do something none of them know how to do. The first time around, the goal was to produce an IT-enabled mobile for our College's 3-story atrium that would somehow express a new vision of our discipline. The result was a cable-array robotic sculpture of a manta ray flying through cyberspace. more...
Spring 2007: we create an ultra-light, ultra-cheap DOME.
In Spring 2007, our goal was to create a "multi-person multi-media computer that surrounds you". The result was a white tent-like structure whose surface was illuminated on the outside by four digital projectors. At first it was dome-shaped, but we've also experimented with cylinders, cubes, and v-shaped structures. We call this kind of thing an Immersitorium or DOME (digital omnidirectional multimedia environment) even though they are often not dome-shaped. Working with Steve Kurtz's and Nancy Doubleday's class on Multi-User Media Spaces, the class also created and attracted a number of dynamite demos and proofs of concepts that convinced us that we were on to something with significant potential. more...
Summer 2007. NSF Grant: A Collaboratorium for interdisciplinary creativity
Spring's momentum carried into summer. With a gift from [[1]] for whom we produced a one-night-only 25 foot immersive visualization of their NetCosm software, we created a compact computer system and a several portable and collapsible cube-shaped DOMEs. We also obtained an NSF SGER grant to study the effects of a Collaboratorium on Interdisciplinary Creativity. Our hypothesis is that by creating a trans-institute facility where collaborators from diverse disciplines can develop and display multidisciplinary projects, we can help develop a new culture of collaboration at RIT and elsewhere.
Fall 2007: the CollaboRITorium: a mixed reality studio for Innovation and Invention
And so it came to pass that the Fall 2007 Innovation and Inventon transformed a small auditorium into a collaboratorium of their own design. The centerpiece of the CollaboRITorium is a v-shaped immersive projection system, but the class accomplished much more than that.
Winter 2007
=Xanthe Matacyk's Exhibit Design Course =
=Jake Noel Storr's Futures of Science =
= Michelle Harris Tangible Media =
Current Status
The Collaboratorium is a work in progress, but it's already being used by several classes
- Human Anatomy
- Tangible Computing
- Building Tools for Creative Practices
- Frontiers of Science
