MITIH IS A UNIque collaboration LED BY the landing and the university of salford, working with creative pioneers in greater manchester, along with salford city council and gmca. its work is underpinned by the university’s metaverse special interest group.
We’re really keen to build a community around our work, so please reach out to us directly on linkedin or by email:
we especially want to elevate the work of creators, pioneers, innovators, and smes within greater manchester.
PEOPLE
The mediacity immersive technologies innovation hub has a core leadership team under the direction of anthony hatton, with research EXPERTISE DRAWN from across the university, overseen by professor andy miah
Our work in immersive technologies at
the university is vast
WE HAVE MANY people who work on immersive technologies at Salford University. We have creators, researchers, technicians, teachers, and students, all of whom bring something unique to our metaverse community. Here are some of the people who have worked on projects and what they have done over the years. the METAVERSE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP IS UNDERPINNED BY A UNIVERSITY CORE LEADERSHIP TEAM AND A SCHOOL LEADERSHIP REPRESENTATIVES, ALONG WITH AN EXTENSIVE NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS FROM ACROSS ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS AND A THRIVING PHD COMMUNITY. WE ALSO HAVE A NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO WORK WITH US AS METAVERSE DEMONSTRATORS FOR EVENTS.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
ADDITIONAL SUBJECT SPECIALISTS
Dr Dulcidio Coelho, Dr Theo Theodoridis, Prof Sunil Vadera, Dr Maria Stukoff, Dr Chris Hughes, Emma Nuttall, Dr Pavel ProkopiC, Dr Annabeth Robinson, Dr Dawn Shaw, Dr Dawn Shaw, Dr Rick Hughes, Dr Zuza Podwinska, Prof Bill Davies, Dr Bruno Fazenda, Dr Jon Hargreaves, Dr Manuel Hernandez perez, Dr Antonio Torija Martinez, Dr Duncan Williams, Prof Mike Wood, Dr Alejandro Lorente Pons, Glenn Watts, Luke Harrison, Dr Alison Matthews, Dr Joanne Scott, Dr Stephen Hornby, Simon Connor, Jennifer Graham, Aaron Robertson, Prof Steve Atkins, Simon Connor, Brendan Williams, Luke Harrison,
CREATIVE TECHNICIANS & DEMONSTRRATORS
James Russell, Jake Orton, Roger McKinley, John Joseph, Kevin Ingram
PHD RESEARCHERS
Xie He, Alex Mbabu, Chamara Panakaduwa, Levy Ndongala, Shobha Gowda, Richard O'Chiobi, Lucie Sykes, Martin Debattista, Deborah Ajibade, Harshi Bamunuachchige, Nafisa Usman, Logan McCage, Mohammed Yousif, Maika Maposa
ARCHIVE
WORLD ESPORTS DAY (2022)
Working with HOST in MediaCity, our students and staff worked towards celebrating world esports day with a demonstration tournament and showcase of gametech and esports.
Salford People:
Prof Andy Miah, Dr Maria Stukoff
microbial puppet masters (2022)
Microbiology Society members Dr Chloe James and Dr Heather Allison have been working with a multi-disciplinary team to create an interactive exhibit all about bacteriophages at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. The exhibit is open to visitors until the 10th of July. Find out more using the link below: https://royalsociety.org/science-even... With thanks to the Royal Society. Virtual Reality design and creation by reflex arc and whoispaulmiller https://reflexarc.co.uk/ https://www.whoispaulmiller.co.uk/
Salford People:
Prof Chloe James, Prof Ian Goodhead, Dr Enrique Gonzalez Tortuero
ADatation (2022)
Presented as a pre-recorded audiovisual work, ADatation is the result of two independent collaborative processes: a real-time performance of interactive sound, visuals, and movement, and the subsequent non-real-time destructive editing of that performance. The initial piece is created through online exchanges between the dancer and musician authors, making use of captured movement data to manipulate sonic and visual media. The captured media are then post-edited through glitch aesthetic processes. The arrangement of the edits reflects each author’s timeline of experienced communication glitches over the past twelve months condensed to the work’s nine-minute duration. Each type of disruption is assigned to a particular type of destructive process, implemented independently for sound, visuals, and dance. The original performance’s normality morphs into an arrangement of glitches, with the final work being a product of distanced collaboration, simultaneously real-time and non-real-time, online and offline.
Salford People:
Lucie Sykes (PhD researcher) and former colleague Dr Manoli Moriaty
science in the house (2019-)
An immersive dance experience bringing together scientific research from physics into a live VJ set at BlueDot Festival, now touring in various locations.
Salford People:
Prof Andy Miah, James Russell (lead artist) with collaborator Dr Rob Appleby, University of Manchester
microcosmic (2022)
Taking us from the microscopic to the infinite vastness of the universe. MicroCosmic is an immersive installation of video, sound and projection-mapped sculpture. From the microscopic to the infinite vastness of the universe; inspired by pioneering scientific research, this immersive installation of video, sound and sculpture will take us on a sensory journey as we are surrounded by the flux of our internal and external realities. Where is the beginning and where is the end?
Salford People:
Prof Chloe James, with artist Paul Miller
the power wall (2020)
A groundbreaking immersive installation developed by the ThinkLab
Salford People: Prof Terrence Fernando and the ThinkLab team
The Virtual law court (2019)
University of Salford legal experts, working with the Manchester Civil Justice Centre plan to use VR headsets with a specially created video to recreate the court experience.
Salford People:
The turning forest (2017)
Salford’s acoustics team worked on the immersive audio experience in this incredible BBC project.
Salford People: Prof Trevor Cox
bird hive (2016)
Soar like a bird, scale a mountain and ripple across the top of a lake with BirdHIVE – a 360 virtual flight tour of the iconic Lake District. BirdHIVE is co-commissioned by Lake District National Park, Lakes Alive and Kendall Calling. It is funded by Lake District National Park, Arts Council England, Salford University; in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University. Bird HIVE was created by immersive technologies specialists Draw & Code and IronBird. To view on a PC or Mac simply use your mouse to move the viewpoint of the video. On mobile use the YouTube app to see the video in full 360 or click on the Google Cardboard logo to view in VR if you have a Cardboard-compatible viewer. http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/
Salford People: Prof Andy Miah
vr for architecture (2015)
Another great immersive tech project developed by the ThinkLab
Salford People: Prof Terrence Fernando and the ThinkLab team
virtual chernobyl (2016)
Virtual Chernobyl is an experience informed by research by Prof Mike Wood, which guides people towards understanding the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It examines how the radiation has affected the wildlife in the region, some 30 years later.
Salford People: Dr Mike Wood, Lead Scientist - will literally fly through the night to get the job done Simon Campion - VR wizard who worked the Oculus content Mikhail Polshaw - VR go to for 360 rendering at short notice Dr Gary Kerr - sci comm agitator, evaluator, and all round 'can doer' Ross Fawkes - science guy, PhD aspiring Moo - puts radiation detectors on Reindeer Rosie Mawdsley - Producing ninja at MSI Manchester Justin Webb - Press master at MSI Gareth Holllyman - Press 2.0 doer at Salford Uni Nicol Caplin - the fastest sci comm'r in town. all the way up from Bristol Darren Langlands - videographer at Salford Uni ...and a whole bunch of STEM volunteers who went the extra mile Prof Andy Miah - creative commoner
MIXaiR™ 2.0 (2021)
Salsa Sound, an innovator in AI-based audio mixing, has launched MIXaiR™ 2.0, the latest iteration of its AI-based automated platform for live audio mixing, transitioning to a pure software, cloud-ready version. Aimed at live sports applications and built on the company’s patented AI technology, MIXaiR 2.0 allows sound engineers to automatically create the best possible mix using standard microphone set-ups.
Salford People:
Dr Ben Shirley, Dr Rob Oldfield
Treehugger (2018)
Developed by Marshmallow Laser Feast, Treehugger is the first chapter of Treehugger: Wawona is centred on nature's cathedral, the giant Sequoia from the famous Sequoia National Park (California, USA). Participants are invited to don a VR headset, place their heads into the tree’s knot and be transported into the Sequoia’s secret inner world. The longer you hug the tree, the deeper you drift into ‘treetime’: a hidden dimension that lies just beyond the limit of our senses. Audiences embark on a journey of abstract visualisation, following a single drop of water as it traverses from root to canopy in these enormous living structures.
Salford People: Prof Andy Miah, Dr Robert Jehle
Bacterial biofilm (2018)
This video shows a virtual reality tour of a real bacterial biofilm experiment. The green fluorescent bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 labelled with GFP) was grown on glass slides for 24 hrs before being treated with antibiotics and propidium iodide (a dye that stains dead bacterial cells red). Images of the biofilm were taken using confocal laser scanning microscopy. Each layer was stacked together to create a 3D image. Each pixel appears as a square block, creating a "MINECRAFT-like" bacterial landscape. This video was created by an interdisciplinary team of microbiologists, computer scientists and creative technologists.
Salford People: Chloe James, Andy Miah; Allen Fairchild and Erik LeGood, and Damon Reid at The University of Salford. UK
GAMELAB (2017)
Delivered as a flagship event in Manchester Science Festival, we assembled many of our Greater Manchester immersive tech partners to showcase, innovate, and create.
Salford People: Over 100 staff and students involved, curated by Prof Andy Miah
beacons for science (2016)
The ‘Beacons for Science’ app is a virtual reality and augmented reality mobile experience that uses beacon technology placed around Manchester. Its aim is to give people a glimpse into the city's heritage and relationship with Science past and present. It has been created by Salford University in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University, Marketing Manchester and a number of other partners from around the city. It is aimed at the general public, students, tourists and at the 4,000 international delegates headed to Manchester for the EuroScience Open Forum from July 23-27. This 360 film contains is a few snippets of the content contained within the app, which includes virtual reality and augmented reality experiences that have been developed in collaboration with a number of partners from around Manchester. This includes Jodrell Bank Observatory, Manchester Art Gallery, the Hilton Hotel, Cancer Research and a number of other partners. Download the app to watch and hear Manchester's science heritage come to life as you walk around the city. Available soon as part of the Manchester European City of Science 2016.
Salford People: Prof Andy Miah
the octave (2015)
A groundbreaking immersive installation, the Octave
Salford People: Dr John O’Hare
our students create amazing work…
a big part of our innovation culture in immersive technologies comes out of the student body and these videos showcase some of their incredible work.
2019 / VR Documentary
2018 / Interior Design
2017 / Game Design
2017 / International Business
2016 / E-Learning with Scuba Diving
Our friends
Another huge part of our world is our friends, partners, collaborators, and industry stakeholders, whom we often invite in to showcase their latest ventures. Here’s a glimpse
2017 / VR Den
2016 / Sensory Sound Pit
2013 / Artist residency in our Octave
exploring
At Salford, we believe that to innovate, you have to really immersive yourself within the technology and we do this by creating experiences for staff, students, and the public to explore new forms of VR. Here are a few of the things we like.
lectures
Our immersive research community also consists of public facing lectures about some of our work. Here are a few we particularly love.
2021 / Prof Andy Miah
2021 / Dr Chris Hughes
2021 / Dr Chris Hughes
2020 / Sam Royle
2020 / Dr Chris Hughes, Dr Ben Shirley
2016 / Esports
2018 / Will Bailey