1. Turning Kids on to STEM
by Letting Them Discover How AR and VR Trick Our Brain
Bill Meyer, Chief Experience Officer

3. Inquiry-Based Learning

4. Reinventing Reality:
The Science of Virtual and Augmented Reality

5. We help scientists & technologists share
their world via cool hands-on exhibits

6. Research-Based Experience Development
Image credit: Christian Rohrer, Nielsen Norman Group
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7. Focus Groups

8. East and West Coast Visitor Testing

9. Mid-Stage Exhibit Prototype Examples

10. What If Digital Models Adapted To Your Perspective?

11. What If Digital Models Adapted To Your Perspective?
First step:
Notice perspective

13. Small fixed perspective viewing hole
Glass pane
Trace object’s
outline onto glass

15. Out-of-Headset Experiences
Encourage Shared Visitor Explorations

16. What are Translation, Rotation and Their Connection to VR?

18. Google Cardboard: only three degrees of freedom (3 DOF)

19. High-end headsets: six degrees of freedom (6 DOF)

21. Why do VR Headsets Display Two Similar Images?

22. 1850’s Stereoscope
Image credit: Science Museum Group Collection Online

23. 1850’s Stereoscope
Mirrors angled at 45° Visitor perceives single fused 3D image
Image credit: Science Museum Group Collection Online
Left Eye’s VR Headset View Right Eye’s VR Headset View

25. Iterative Exhibit Development
(Build, Measure, Learn)

26. Does Sound in VR Behave Like Real World Sound?

27. Spatialized 3D Audio Made Physical Outside VR
Head/ear position is tracked (eyes uncovered)
Each object has
a unique RFID tag
RFID reader pad tells VR simulation
which object is at this spot
Physical exhibit layout is precisely duplicated
in a behind-the-scenes VR simulation
Localized sound plays
from VR simulation

30. Can a Virtual Body Feel Like It’s Really Yours?

31. Seminal VR Research

32. Turning Cool Research Into a Cool Exhibit
Arm lengthens
in VR simulation
Physical exhibit is duplicated
in the VR simulation
Both real and virtual hand
are simultaneously brushed
“My arm feels
longer! ”

35. Future of XR, Reality Capture & More…

36. What’s Special About Depth Cameras?

40. Eye Tracking and Foveated Rendering

41. Center of Your Gaze:
Foveal Pixels
Peripheral Pixels

42. Bystanders see the truth:
most of the display is blurred!
Entire display seems sharp to user
when eye-tracking is on
External Eye Tracking Camera

44. Can Exhibits Be Timeless?

46. Bill Meyer, Chief Experience Officer
bill@VirtualScienceCenter.org