Immersive Technology

How might we advance the use and understanding of VR, XR, AR, and other immersive technologies in games?

Project areas include:

Generating 3D game assets from 2D images
Using machine learning to enhance interaction with virtual characters in games

iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme:

Dr Guifen Chen

Supervisor

Creative Computing, Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Cristina Dobre

iGGi Alum

Game AI, Immersive Technology

Dr Ildar Farkhatdinov

Supervisor

Design & Development, Game AI, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Miles Hansard

Supervisor

Game AI, Immersive Technology, Design & Development, Game Data

Karl Clarke

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Abi Evans

Supervisor

Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Luke Farrar

iGGi Alum

Immersive Technology

Dr Patrik Huber

Supervisor

Applied Games, Game Data, Immersive Technology, Player Research, Esports

Tania Dales

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Game AI, Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Timea Farkas

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Creative Computing, Immersive Technology

Dr Carlos Gonzalez Diaz

iGGi Alum

Immersive Technology, Game AI, Design & Development, Creative Computing

Dr Yul HR Kang

Supervisor

Game AI, Player Research, Creative Computing, Immersive Technology

iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme:

TAPVid-360: Tracking Any Point in 360 from Narrow Field of View Video

F Hudson, J Gardner, W Smith

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38, 2026

James Gardner

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VENI: Variational Encoder for Natural Illumination

P Walker, JAD Gardner, A Ardelean, WAP Smith, B Egger

arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.14079, 2026

James Gardner

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RENI++: A Rotation-Equivariant, Scale-Invariant, Natural Illumination Prior

JAD Gardner, B Egger, WAP Smith

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2026

James Gardner

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NEURALATEX: a machine learning library written in pure LATEX

JAD Gardner, W Rowan, WAP Smith

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.24187, 2025

James Gardner

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Prototyping by Moving for Virtual Reality

N Plant, C Hilton, CG Diaz, R Fiebrink, P Perry, R Gibson, B Martelli, ...

2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)

Dr Carlos Gonzalez Diaz

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The Sky's the Limit: Relightable Outdoor Scenes via a Sky-Pixel Constrained Illumination Prior and Outside-In Visibility

JAD Gardner, E Kashin, B Egger, WAP Smith

European Conference on Computer Vision, 126-143, 2024

James Gardner

Evgenii Kashin

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