Navigating in a 3D virtual environment involves keeping oriented while efficiently traversing large and varied landscapes – all without introducing motion sickness. Researchers Ted Nguyen-Vo, Bernhard Riecke, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, and colleagues at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology are working to address the unique challenges of traversing large virtual environments to deliver a more authentic and efficient 3D virtual reality experience.  The research was published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 

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Read the whole story about the NaviBoard, a new navigation interface developed by  SFU researchers here.

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Faculty profile webpage: Bernhard Riecke
Faculty profile webpage: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
NaviBoard: Efficiently Navigating Virtual Environments
iSpace Lab (immersive, Spatial, Perception, Action/Art, Cognition, Embodiment Lab)
Virtual and Augmented Reality, Visual Analytics, Interaction, Systems, and Experiments (VVISE – Lab)

How did life begin on Earth and could it exist elsewhere? Simon Fraser University researchers in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Peter Unrau and Razvan Cojocaru have isolated a genetic clue – an enzyme known as an RNA polymerase – that provides new insights about the origins of life. The research was recently published in the journal Science.

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Faculty profile webpage: Peter Unrau
The Unrau Laboratory
SFU Faculty of Science news article
Labroots.com article

"Labour geography III: Precarity, racial capitalisms and infrastructure" is the third and final instalment of  Kendra Strauss' 'Progress Reports' published in Progress in Human Geography--the top-ranked journal for Geography, Planning and Development in the Scimago Journal and Country Rank. The articles explore many of the themes central to Strauss' research interests, including precarity, migration, racialization and social infrastructures.

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@ProfStraussLBST on Twitter

Recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Dr. Provençal is the main author of "Glucocorticoid exposure during hippocampal neurogenesis primes future stress response by inducing changes in DNA methylation", which demonstrates how prenatal stress exposure is an important risk factor for developing a wide range of health problems later in life such as increased reactivity to stress, cognitive deficits, psychiatric and behavioural disorders.

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What are the implications of undercutting opposing views without offering an additional argument, evidence or proof? Endre Begby dives deeply into this question with "Evidential Preemption", published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. The article introduces the concept of "evidential preemption", and is a continuation of Begby's research focus on issues in social epistemology, on the cognitive underpinnings of language and communication.

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