Egleston Seminar - Research Idea Presentation

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  • Searching for Preceding Research on ParallelTalk

📕 What is “Virtual Time”?

• Analogy: Virtual Reality for Time, not Space
  • 🗺 Physical Space vs Virtual Space
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  • 🕑 Physical Time vs Virtual Time
    • (relativizing physical time)
• Definition:
  • Def. of Virtual Reality:

    • An experience that appears different from reality but has the same effect as reality (Hirose, 2019)

  • Then, def. of Virtual Time:

    • An experience of “time” that appears different from real time but has the same effect as time.

🛠 How is it possible?

• i.e. How could we recreate the virtual effect of time?
• Virtual Space:
  • Perception of space: Internal Sense of Space + External Stimuli
    • External Stimuli: Sight, Sound, Haptics, etc
  • Creating the experience of moving in virtual space through artificial stimuli
  • Virtual Space offers more freedom
    • Ability to fly, warp, navigate non-euclidean spaces, etc.
• Virtual Time:
  • Perception of time: Internal Sense + External Stimuli
    • External Stimuli: Sense of synchronization with other changing factors (clocks, people, etc)
      • (hypothesis)
  • Creating the experience of moving in virtual time through artificial stimuli
  • Virtual Time offers more freedom
    • Manipulation of speed, warping, looping, etc.

🤔 What I want to do with this concept

• Not imposing virtual reality/time but providing an alternative choice of reality/time.

⚗️ Applications

- ![image](https://gyazo.com/aa4aa6d64e61224f2d038972922c98e9/thumb/1000)
- Interactive lecture video streaming platform
    - Overlaying student-generated content on lecture videos
- Goal: Combining the advantages of real-time and on-demand lectures
    - Benefits of real-time lectures: Interactive communication among students
    - Benefits of on-demand lectures: Time control
- Method: Implementing virtual time through artificial stimuli

        - Providing a pseudo sense of synchronization with other students interacting during lectures

        - Adjusting playback speed secretly within the range of 0.9~1.2x
        - Synchronizing unsynchronized students
        - ![image](https://gyazo.com/d9aa579ae06f8ecdc2c58d7e84c24322/thumb/1000)
        - ![image](https://gyazo.com/c33ad3034813d68a4ea13ff647e27ffa/thumb/1000)

- Issue with current voice communication: Only one thread available
    - Difficulties in branching discussions
- Applying ==Elastic Sync == to establish multithreaded voice communication, where participants eventually receive content from every thread

• 🔬What to research?

  • Some ideas:

    • Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Mediated Communication

    • Implementing time-compression algorithms & insights from cognitive science

    • Preferring engineering & applied science over basic science

    • Prof. Jenann Ismael @ Columbia, specializing in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and time