Professsor Dr. Ian Biscoe
Dr Ian Biscoe - a serial technology entrepreneur with start-up experience in Europe and the USA across the fields of engineering, aerospace, and entertainment. Ian is currently Professor Transdisciplinary Design Networks at Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) where his Trans Realities Lab (TRL) is investigating applications of real-time collaborative networked XR in education, design, production and research. Ian leads multiple research programmes in the TRL, including the Horizon Europe / EMIL funded XR-IT (eXtended Reality - Intraverse Tookit), a software and systems framework for distanced collaboration in high-fidelity Metaverse / Distributed Spatial Environments.
Through his arts practice, Studio Biscoe, Ian fuses approaches from many fields of technology, performing and visual arts to create networked performances employing low-latency networks and coalesced space.
Trans Realities Lab @ Design Academy Eindhoven
Sessions
XR-IT: a software and systems platform for high-fidelity collaboration in the Metaverse. New tools enabling inter-institutional virtual worlds, for education, research and immersive content creation. Preview a live action mocap animated film made simultaneously between studios in three EU countries using XR-IT.
We present and demonstrate the early phases of a virtually co-located collaboration between HKU Utrecht's Artistic XR Lab and Design Academy Eindhoven's Trans Realities Lab. We are exploring the potential for XR-mediated colocation to deliver new interdisciplinary models for educational art and design collaboration across geographic and institutional boundaries.