Pete Carss:
Research Assistant, Immersive Vision.

Background:
...in Music and Photography. Childhood of taking things apart, learning musical instruments and programming everything from a Vic 20 onward.

Taught English as a foreign language for 5 years in various countries.

Rebuilt a 1600cc VW Camper engine from scratch. Including the use of swivel feet tappets.

Graduated BSc Medialab Arts in 2002. This was accomplished while living on a 22' 2" yacht.

3 Years as Research Associate @ The Centre for Deaf Studies, Bristol University. Developing Video editing/authoring/sharing applications to support Classroom, Research and Web/3G activities.

Currently employed as Research Assistant in Immersive Vision by The Natural Sciences CETL. I am located within i-DAT. Creating content and methodologies for immersive visualisations, for a huge variety of disciplines, within the immersive vision theatre.

Research Interests:

Photography and Fisheyes, Video ( Camera Arrays, Fisheye capture, CODECS, Streaming over SIP/H.323), Surround Sound and Sound Design, Programming Linguistics, RealTime 3D, Ai and Neural Nets, Ubiquitous Computing, Computer Vision, Embodied Cognition, Dome Projection Systems, CAVES/VR.

I have some Arabic, French, C/Objective-C/C++, Ruby, BSL (British Sign Language) and Java.

eml: peter.carss@plymouth.ac.uk