Norwich celebrates partnership in Immersive Visualisation and Simulation Lab
The new Institute for Creative Technologies at Norwich University of the Arts played host to the final wrap up event for the Watermills and Marshes Landscape Partnership scheme last week, at our AHRC CResCa funded Immersive Visualisation and Simulation Lab.
The large 360° screen was perfect to show off the amazing work that they’ve done over the last seven years.
We caught up with Andrew Farrell from the Broads Authority who said the following:
“We needed a big, impactful way to show what we’ve done together as a partnership with Norwich University. When we were developing the idea for the Immersive Visualisation Lab and looking at this 360° technology specifically, we’re looking at how we can model and simulate the landscape of the Broads with the impacts of climate change.
Looking at the historical implications of climate change, the present, and then the future — and building an immersive environment like this — takes us away from relying on such an individual technology like VR goggles, and allows people to come together to experience the same kind of immersion in landscape up to where they can point and be excited and be inquisitive and curious about what they see and learn from one another at the same time. This is the technology that we really needed to make that happen.”
Our project was supported as part of the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council’s World Class Labs programme, which is supporting the upgrade of the UK’s creative and heritage facilities. This funding has helped research organisations like ours maintain and improve our facilities, laboratories and digital resources. With access to cutting-edge technologies, our researchers are equipped to put their exciting ideas to practice.
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