Monash University
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Rocket sparks grassfire
An exploding rocket started a fire that quickly burned through five hectares at Kyneton on March 30, triggering a number of community warnings. A group of Monash University students were conducting an experiment with rocket engines when the grassfire took hold. Emergency services were called to the scene at a property on Baynton Road about…
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Extended Reality showcase in Castlemaine
Castlemaine Documentary Festival is this year partnering with Monash University’s research laboratory SensiLab to present a first-of-its-kind Extended Reality (XR) showcase in Castlemaine. XR refers to a collection of technologies that use computer generated environments. These can be Augmented Reality – AR – that augment the real-world with digital elements. AR usually uses a phone’scamera…
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Happy to be home
A piano in a garden made an interesting COVID twist for photographer Sandy Scheltema when she went to the Tylden South home of David and Susan Jaffe and their son Patrick to photograph them for her pandemic project. Sandy has been photographing local families in their driveways as part of her ‘Life in The Time…