The whole building will then open for free drop in session from 3-5pm and feature a whole host of demos including:
Oculus Rift - Haptics in Virtual Reality - Ever wanted to be inside a video game? Well now you can! Come and experience virtual reality first hand with the Oculus Rift head mounted display and Leap Motion hand tracking.
Two Weeks - Lose track of real-time as you delve into the sounds of 'Two Weeks' – a sound installation compressing a whole week in one hour which will run on a loop for the duration of the open session.
Shaping sounds with gestures - Try out (or watch) two digital gestural interfaces developed to manipulate different types of audio synthesis, pre-recorded video files and live video feeds.
Robots in Education - This display shows how humanoid robots are used in Electrical Engineering to interactively teach students how to program.
The DIY sound-artist
– Learn how to turn your Rock Band 3
controller into a polyphonic synthesiser, your Wii mote into an audio scrubber
and your Xbox Kinect into a granular engine.
