Creative Projects

Making of 'The Moment'

Richard Ramchurn talks about producing his brain controlled film ‘The Moment’ in this documentary video

VR Playground

ITV East Anglia News coverage of the VR Playground installation at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival May 2017

SHARED sensE partage

A trailer of SHARED sensE partage – a performance resulting from the Sound and Movement and Sentiment projects, translating body data into multi-sensory experiences, through specially designed wearable devices and everyday technology. CREDITS: Diane Wiltshire, Fabio Dolce, Paul Tennant and Phanuel Erdmann

Invisible story

Watch a journey being made  for the Invisible experience

Invisible

The invisible installation test at Primary’s Uncanny Christmas event in December 2017 by Rachel Jacobs, Silvia Leal, Flore de Pequi, Robin Shackford and Nils Jaeger and Holger Schnadelbach (Mixed Reality Lab/ Horizon, University of Nottingham)

The Experiment - short extract

For one night only, Thrill Laboratory present an experiment like no other: real scientists, amateur paranormal investigators, and the live exploration of a haunted building.

Mat Collishaw Thresholds

Go back in time to the dawn of photography with Thresholds, a new virtual reality artwork by Mat Collishaw with support from Paul Tennent at the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham.

CLIMB

“Climb” combines contemporary piano with elements of computer games to create a non-linear musical journey in which the pianist negotiates an ascent of a mountain, choosing their way as they go and encountering weather, animals and other obstacles along the way

SHARED sense partage

A trailer of SHARED sensE partage – a performance resulting from the Sound and Movement and Sentiment projects, translating body data into multi-sensory experiences, through specially designed wearable devices and everyday technology. CREDITS: Diane Wiltshire, Fabio Dolce, Paul Tennant and Phanuel Erdmann

The Runaway Hare

Bringing digital into interactive theatre. Roma Patel, Designer, Horizon CDT student and a member of the Mixed Reality Laboratory is looking to computing to provide extra engagement with young theatre-goers.

Mixed Reality Storytelling - 3D scanning

Turning exquisitely painted miniatures into high definition 3d models using a camera and a turntable. Dimitri Darzentas is a Horizon CDT PhD student & member of the Mixed Reality Lab.

Digitopia

Digitopia: An interactive experience to accompany a dance performance for families

Data Journeys Archway

The Data Journeys Archway was a first experiment as part of the development of a larger archways project, an outcome of and follow-on from Andrew Wilson’s shared research residency with Mixed Reality Lab and Sustrans, the national active travel charity, and funded by Horizon.

A Day in the Park

The Day in the Park research allowed us to engage key industry partners in order to explore how the concept of a contextual footprint, that included biosensing data gathered from riders, can underpin future digital economy services.

The Broncomatic

An adaptive ride enhanced with robotic controllers which is controlled by the riders breathing.

Discovery Channel's Daily Planet Feature

Senior Research Fellow and Thrill Laboratory Engineer Brendan Walker features on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet.

Duality: One Body Two Brains

In the autumn of 2014 Thrill Laboratory presented the live public broadcast of an experiment created to reveal the effect of horror films on the human brain. The experiment was commissioned by Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema for the Mayhem Film Festival.

Prediction Machine

Since October 2014 Rachel Jacobs has presented The Prediction Machine, with over 800 people interacting directly with the machine during exhibitions alongside a series of public workshops that have taken place at Nottingham Contemporary, Loughborough Town Hall, Loughborough University, the University of Nottingham.