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Volume: 37 | Article ID: SDA-333
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NEMO Explorer XR – The Development of an Ocean-based Immersive Co-design Environment
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2025.37.2.SDA-333  Published OnlineFebruary 2025
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The NEMO project (New Economic Model for the Oceans) tackles ocean-related issues from a design perspective. The initial NEMO project is based on an experimental data gathering using 4K cameras to capture objects along a ship voyage of 6,070 nautical miles from Kangerlussuaq (Greenland) to Poole (UK) via Sardinia (Italy). This data was combined with recorded GPS coordinates to visualize the journey using the Cesium.js environment. Several objects were identified and mapped to the corresponding locations of the ship trajectory. In this work, we are using this initial web visualization as starting point to create a first prototype of an UNREAL engine-based immersive environment which can be explored within the new RCA SNAP Visualization Lab facility. Based on a previous co-design workshop locally ran at the RNLI headquarters in Poole, we started to explore opportunities to enable similar experiences in an immersive 3D environment. The ultimate aim is to enable collaborative data visualization and exploration in the context of co-design workshops. In this way, we are combining Macro-Meso-Micro perspectives with the purpose to provide on one hand a holistic overview of the journey, and on the other hand enable place-based exploration of ocean- and coast-related scenarios.

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Bjorn Sommer, Alyssa Liu, Rian Stephens, Elise Hodson, Carla Amaral, Christopher Ross, Jasmine Black, Paul Anderson, Ashley Hall, "NEMO Explorer XR – The Development of an Ocean-based Immersive Co-design Environmentin Electronic Imaging,  2025,  pp 333-1 - 333-7,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2025.37.2.SDA-333

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