Helping out with a Virtual Reality research project at the Hit Lab, University of Canterbury

I was stoked to help out in a VR user study looking at preserving identity in rich VR collaboration at the HITLab NZ based at University of Canterbury this week. it seemed like an interesting mix of psychology and technology, my two favourite work things, oh and people of course…always people.

It was great to visit the HIT Lab again, an awesome institution of which many great projects & people have flourished working on VR over the years. I remember helping out with another project on Google Glass must have been around 2013…remember that? Amazing that didn’t take off but you just never know with tech…

The aim of the study is to gather user behaviour data using a VR headset to find the possibility of detecting the users identity and emotional status while using VR.

It was a delight to meet Dilshani who guided me through the steps and to be honest any chance to engage with VR is always fascinating for me.

If you’d like to help Dilshani in her PhD research she still needs a few people to participate, it takes less than an hour and you get a $20 gift voucher at the end which was very kind.

I'm Paul, I’m a Dad who loves coffee, dogs, biking, surfing & skiing. Founder & Principal Consultant of Sunstone, an IT Recruitment & HR company specialising in recruiting IT roles within software, web, mobile, blockchain, big data, cloud infrastructure, security & networks in Christchurch & South Island of New Zealand.