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Facility summary

Specialization: VR, AR, Motion Capture and Data Processing
Max Capacity: 10 persons
Location: Langezijds, LA 1503
Get Room Key from: Langezijds, LA 1501

About the XR lab

The XR (Extended Reality) lab space is set up to offer researchers a advanced space to carry out their Virtual or Augmented Reality and Motion Capture experiments. The room is further set up with 3 other powerful workstations dedicated to data processing purposes. The workstations include Xsens MVN software, Adobe CC, Tobii pro, Oculus, Steam, Unity and much more. Read more.

Using The XR lab And Their Equipment

For VR: The room is a room dedicated primarily to VR related experiments and research. The room is set up with two workstations and a VR walking set-up, the Virtualizer Elite 2 that support researchers in carrying out seamless immersion into the virtual environments. Making this an ideal room dedicated to VR development, testing and data collection. Additionally there is both a wide open area and a VR walking set-up where you can test your development and conduct research with your participants.
For Motion Capture: Additionally, in combination with VR or for separate usage you are able to book our Motion Capture equipment to use for your research. This room is ideal for motion capture research due to the space provided in this room.
For Data Processing: Behind the VR workstations, there are also three other workstations (1 Mac PC and two Windows PCs) that can be used to process the data you collected.

When should you use the XR lab?
When your study requires the use of Virtual Reality or motion capture. For studies where the participants need to stand and move around, this room and its equipment are ideal for the mobility required in your research design. The room can also be used for developing of your virtual environment and for the usage of processing your data.

When should you not use the XR lab?
This room is not ideal for VR experiments that incorporate driving. For this look at our Driving Simulator. VR studies that require participants to sit could also be completed in our Flexperiment rooms, this will depend on availability of our rooms.

Best practices XR lab

When in the room, there are some ground rules you must abide by.

Working in the room

Keep the room clean! Eat in the student lounge or down in the mess hall.
Keep silent in the room! This is not only for your own research but also for the other research taking place in the rooms next door.
Don’t move the equipment (unless discussed).
In case of questions or problems, report these to the BMS Lab room LA1501.
Don’t overheat the room during winter.
Close windows and turn off light when finished.
Bring the key back to LA1501 or the key dropbox in front of LA1501.
The room keys cannot leave the building. If you want to use the facilities outside office hours, indicate this in – your reservation. Make sure you are informed about the procedures regarding access of the building outside office hours.

Working with participants

When using Informed Consent forms, make sure you guarantee your participants’ anonymity, so do not leave the forms behind.
Participants can be noisy in the hallway when waiting to participate in an experiment. For this reason, participants have to wait downstairs in the mess hall or in the student lounge on the first floor of the Cubicus.

Working with our equipment

You can make use of the PC and equipment you reserved. You are not allowed to use equipment you have not reserved.
The PCs are not clean installed after every research, so take care of your data during/after your research.
It is obligatory to copy your data after every day of data gathering onto the T4P data server.
After the research, delete any sensitive data from the PC.
Let us know through the equipment reservation forms what hardware you want to use. This way we can make sure all the necessary software is there for you.

Hygiene protocol

The below states the hygiene procedures related to persons. For equipment, follow the disinfection procedure for the instrument.

1 – Persons

1.1 – Postpone the study in case of flu, cold or other infection in the trial conductor or subject (V).

1.2 – Ensure good general body and clothing hygiene during the trial period (V).

1.3 – Always wear disposable gloves during the following physiological procedures:

a – cleaning/abrading the subject’s skin (V).
b – application of electrodes (V).
c – removal of electrodes (V).
d – all actions related to blood, sperm or vaginal fluid (V).
e – working with disinfectants (V).
f – in the case of clearly visible wounds or skin irritation in the subject or experimenter (V).

1.4 – The simplest disinfection procedure is hand washing. This should be done, regardless of the use of gloves:

a – prior to physiological actions (V).
b – after physiological actions (V).
c – after using the toilet (V).
d – after sneezing, coughing or blowing the nose (use paper tissues) (V).
e – after unexpected contact with blood or other body fluids (V).

1.5 – It is preferable not to wear rings during examination (V).

1.6 – Nails should preferably be kept short and clean during the study period (V).

Want to use the XR lab space?

First go through the steps on how to reserve our facilities or or go directly through the registration of your request if you haven't do so already. If you have already followed these steps, go directly to our booqable page to make a reservation:

How to reserve lab spaces