Egleston Seminar - Research Idea Presentation

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📕 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:
  • Definition of Virtual Reality:

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

  • Then, the definition of Virtual Time:

    • An experience of “time” that seems different from real time on the surface, but has the same effect as time.

🛠 How is it possible?

• In other words, how can we recreate the virtual effect of time?
• Virtual Space:
  • Perception of space: Internal Sense of Space + External Stimuli
    • External Stimuli: Sight, Sound, Haptics, etc.
  • The experience of moving in virtual space can be created through artificial stimuli.
  • Virtual Space allows for more freedom:
    • Flying, Warping, Non-Euclidean space, etc.
• Virtual Time:
  • Perception of time: Internal Sense + External Stimuli
    • External Stimuli: Sense of synchronization with other changing actors (clocks, people, etc.)
      • (hypothesis)
  • The experience of moving in virtual time can be created through artificial stimuli.
  • Virtual Time allows for more freedom:
    • Speed manipulation, Warping, Looping, etc.

🤔 What I want to do with this concept

• I don’t want to force virtual reality/time, but rather provide an alternative choice of reality/time.

⚗️ Applications

- ![image](https://gyazo.com/aa4aa6d64e61224f2d038972922c98e9/thumb/1000)
- Interactive lecture video streaming platform
    - Student-generated content overlaid on lecture video
- Goal: Combine the benefits of real-time and on-demand lectures
    - Benefits of real-time lectures: Interactive communication between students
    - Benefits of on-demand lectures: Control of time
- Method: Virtual time through artificial stimuli
    - Pseudo Sync (擬似同期)
        - Gives a pseudo sense of synchronization with other students interacting in lectures
    - Elastic Sync (弾性同期)
        - Secretly control playback speed within the range of 0.9~1.2x
        - Synchronize 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
    - Difficult to have branching discussions
- Applying ==Elastic Sync == to create multithreaded voice communication, where participants eventually receive content from every thread

• 🔬What to research?
  • Some ideas:
    • Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication
    • Applying time-compression algorithms and knowledge from cognitive science
    • But I want to focus on engineering and applied science, not basic science
    • Prof. Jenann Ismael @ Columbia, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, time