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XR, eXtended Reality is an umbrella term that encompasses Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and other forms of application of the compound, alternate, expanded, or immersive reality, including those yet to be invented.

The GIAMD investigates extended reality from different perspectives

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We explore the perception and characteristic forms of experience that appear in extended reality.

  • Perception: to explore how our perception works in XR,
    • we created the LabXR – Research laboratory on spatial perception and proprioception in Extended Reality. The first project is the XRpanopticum, a laboratory for experimentation in performing arts aimed at producing interdisciplinary research. The project has been awarded a fund for research-creation from the University, the CAP 2021.
    • Members of our team are members of the Virtual Experience Interaction Lab, a team of 40 researchers from all continents dedicated to interface analysis in approximately 100 virtual reality experiences from various categories.
    • We are working towards organizing in Peru the 360º video choreographic creation research project «Les danses extatiques» of the CANVAR group (Collectif des Artistes Numeriques), a Franco-Colombian collective.

We explore the socioeconomic effects of XR, for example

  1. We observe and promote the creation of networks for local and international cooperation.
    • In Peru, we collaborated in the creation and continuity of the Peruvian Network of Extended Reality, XRperu.org.
    • We are members of the XR Latin American Network, XR-LATAM.
    • Members of our team were part of the Advisory Board of the first meeting of the XR industry in Latin America, Stereopsia Latam, and its satellite events, as well as part of the jury for the related award.
    • We are part of XR4all, the European Union network implemented to promote the XR industry on that continent, and its continuation XR4europe.
    • We are members of Virtual Reality Berlin-Brandenburg e.V., the XR BerlinBrandenburg network in Germany.
    • We participate in events of various XR networks, such as the Italian, Nordic, Eastern countries networks, among others.
  2. The growth of the emerging XR Industry in our country and in Latin America
    • We are working with XRperu.org. in preparing an overview of the XR industry in Peru to be presented at events such as Stereopsia Latam and the Film and New Media FEstival Narrarlefuturo
    • We are part of exchange and exploration groups on the relationship between fashion and XR. One interlocutor is Fashion Forward.
    • We have collaborated in CONCYTEC knowledge dissemination strategies, such as a talk about what is XR in the 2021 National Science Week and an article about it in the journal Libros y Ciencia Vol. 3.

We research the sociocultural effects that XR can cause and actually causes. Among our fields of exploration are:

  1. Security, privacy & ethics in XR. Within the context of privacy, diversity and accessibility:
    • We collaborated with «Safety Awareness Week» in 2020 organized by the XR Safety Initiative, promoting it in Latin America. For example, we co-organized and participated in the Conversation on Security in XR, between Angie Bonino, Oscar Cartagena, Emilio Vegas and Andres Leon Geyer.
    • We attended conversations of the working groups convened by XRSI that focused on developing version 1.1 of the XRSI Framework, aimed at establishing international guidelines for security, privacy, accessibility and other criteria for the ethical design and use of XR.
    • We are currently researching Dark Patterns in XR, that is, manipulation mechanisms not evident in the XR design.
    • We look at concepts of exclusion and affordability related to the Metaverse, like its potential to make bigger the digital-development differences. We talked about it in the conference «A brave, inaccessible world. Does the metaverse broaden the digital gap?» in Metaversus 2022.
  2. Cultural effects of XR. Among our research areas in this field are:
    • The investigation about to what extent XR constitutes a chapter of its own within the information age. Results of this research were presented at the «Building realities» conference, as part of the DimensionsXR 2020 Summit, organized by the Swiss Society of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, based in Geneva.
    • Academic training in XR. We seek to explore the priorities and coincidences of academic curricula for training in XR, as well as related educational tools. In this context, we participated with a conference on the use of virtual reality spaces to raise awareness of the complex use of real spaces at XR Academia 2021, a joint congress between Europe and Latin America.

Apart from what is listed, we seek to spread and encourage interest in and use of XR in Peru through the organization of congresses, festivals, exhibitions and related events.

For more information, contact Andres Leon-Geyer , who is in charge of the XR area at GIAMD.

 

 

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