During the period from 15th of March 2019 to 15th of June 2019 a PhD student from the University of West Bohemia, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Pilsen, Czech Republic, came to us on ERASMUS+ Student Mobility for Traineeships programme. His name is Sergo Martirosov and he specializes in developing VR environments, namely for educational and training purposes. Continue reading “Sergo Martirosov from University of West Bohemia joined the team”
Students came in to try VR gaming experience
During the winter semester, here at the Faculty, our students tried out VR gaming. They had a choice of several types of games, namely, the first-person shooter (FPS), table tennis or puzzle solving. Surprisingly, the majority of students chose to play an FPS game. Continue reading “Students came in to try VR gaming experience”
Initial results started to come in
In the last two weeks or so we were conducting a small-scale test of user QoE while playing the popular Project Cars racing game in VR. For now, we have downloaded free-to-play version of the game from Steam service, i.e. Project Cars – Pagani Edition, and conducted a test only with our colleagues. Since the Project Cars is the racing simulation we plugged into our test computer Logitech G29 racing wheel to ensure (almost) full racing experience. Ten of our colleagues participated in the research and here we bring you some results. Continue reading “Initial results started to come in”