![]() The more tools available to combat it, even if one is a lowly undergraduate’s summer project, the better. We can study the way different groups interact with the environment to track down areas that are of high susceptibility. Stakeholders such as DOC should be able to strap a headset to a ranger and get them to annotate where in the environment is at most risk for dieback. ![]() I am not aiming to develop an exciting experience, but a useful, immersive tool that should result in valuable data collection. With the typical pro-VR spiel out of the way, we can get to the fine print - videos of forests are a far cry from roller coasters and first person shooters. My vital role as pack mule on a field trip to Wenderholm ![]() All I can really say is that if you have the opportunity, I implore you to try it, as even a VR cynic would love the ability to tell everyone how right they were about it (although I won’t believe them). For someone that hasn’t had a ‘good’ VR experience (read: not smartphone VR), it’s hard to imagine that strapping a screen a few centimetres in front of your eyes will change the way you think about human-computer interaction. I may exaggerate, but honestly after spending a huge amount of time in constructed reality, be it through videogames or immersive video, I really do think that VR will be a huge part of future computing. The internet is full of people riding VR roller coasters and immediately claiming that their life was never the same afterwards. You may sense the zeal of the recently converted, and I wouldn’t blame you. That being said, when you plug all the holes, VR offers what I think is an unparalleled way of interacting with your computer and an environment, real or otherwise. ![]() Virtual reality (VR) is the epitome of an emerging technology - expensive, unintuitive and plagued with development issues. I will be developing a new form of data collection around dieback spread with virtual reality. For my Summer Research Scholarship, I have been tasked to aid in Michael Martin’s Kauri Citizen Science project. Not the most pleasant read, but important to understand as it has ravaged New Zealand’s native forests resulting in the death of countless of Kauri and the closure of some of our favourite tracks and public land. The Department of Conservation (DOC) states that Kauri dieback is a disease that damages the tissues that carry nutrients in water within Kauri trees, ‘effectively starving it to death’. ![]()
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