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UCSD Site Report to the IAB. Sheldon Brown Site Director Daniel Tracy CHMPR Programmer. May 11, 2011 Baltimore, MD. Overview. Ongoing Projects Multi-User Extensible Virtual Worlds Assets , Dynamics and Behavior Computation for Virtual Worlds and Computer Games Extending the CHMPR
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UCSD Site Report to the IAB Sheldon Brown Site Director Daniel Tracy CHMPR Programmer May 11, 2011 Baltimore, MD
Overview Ongoing Projects • Multi-User Extensible Virtual Worlds • Assets, Dynamics and Behavior Computation for Virtual Worlds and Computer Games Extending the CHMPR • Future Cinema – has revised focus on Augmented Reality • FRP and RapidMRI projects underway • REU – two new undergraduates involved in research • Complementary project with NSF EAGER grant • “Identifying and Integrating Creative Patterns of User Behavior and
Staff • Sheldon Brown, Site Director • Erik Hill, Programmer Analyst • Daniel Tracy, Programmer Analyst • Todd Margolis, Progammer Analyst • Kristen Kho, Programmer Analyst • Jeremy Douglass, Post-Doc Researcher • VivekRamavajjala, Graduate Student • Sam Kronik, Graduate Student • Robin Betz, Undergraduate Student • Bradley Ruoff, Undergradauate Student • Lourdes Guardiano-Durkin, Administrator
Projects Ongoing projects: • Multi-user Extensible Virtual Worlds • Assets, Dynamics and Behavior Computation for Virtual Worlds and Computer Games Revised Project • Future Cinema as Augmented Reality Affiliated Projects • Identifying and Integrating Creative Patterns of User Behavior and Experience in Virtual Worlds
Products and Activities Last six months: • Virtual World Exhibitions • CSU Sacramento • UCSD 50th Anniversary Innovation Expo • Next Generation Cinema Presentations • presentation by Justin Rattner, Intel • Featured on French/German TV: Souvenirs from Earth • Ukraine: Video Art in a Global Context Exhibition • Mexico Moving Forward • College Art Association New York • 3D movie featured at Seoul Korea Film Festival • Scalable City wins first prize in Sony Europe 3D movie competition • Lectures • Varieties of Virtual World Experience via Multicore Computing at the Frontiers of Multicore Computing • Intel Labs Radio Show • Keynote talk for NEA/NSF Summit at RPI • EMPAC. I gave one of the keynote talks • Publications • Tracy D., Brown S. Combining Parallel & Incremental Techniques for Real-Time Physics in Large, • Continuous Virtual Environments. Journal of Computing and Concurrancy – pending publication. Website: http://chmpr.ucsd.edu