Augmented Creativity | Bob Sumner | TEDxZurich

Augmented Reality is becoming omnipresent - from video games to smart phones. By enhancing what we see, hear, feel and smell, this technology blurs the line between what's real and what's computer-generated. In his talk, Bob Sumner gives us a taste of how this tech will impact future generations. “Augmented Creativity,” he shows us, will bring children new ways of interacting creatively with the world around them.
Robert Sumner is the Associate Director of Disney Research Zurich (DRZ) and an Adjunct Professor at ETH Zurich. At DRZ, Robert leads the lab’s research in animation and games. His research group strives to bypass technical barriers in animation and game production pipelines with new algorithms that expand the designer’s creative toolbox in terms of depiction, movement, deformation, stylization, control, and efficiency. Robert received a B.S. degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich before joining Disney. At ETH, Robert teaches a course called the Game Programming Laboratory in which students from ETH and the Zurich University of the Arts work in small teams to design and implement novel video games. In 2015, Robert founded the ETH Game Technology Center, which provides an umbrella over ETH research, teaching, and outreach.
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