{"id":61399,"date":"2017-06-13T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T02:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=61399"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:38:41","slug":"virtual-hokulea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/13\/virtual-hokulea\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigate and sail by the stars aboard a virtual H\u014dk\u016ble\u02bba"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ove4PNUltlg?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Adventure awaits! It may soon be possible to sail on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokulea.com\/\">Polynesian Voyaging Society canoe <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span><\/a>, view the stars and constellations at sea and navigate using traditional wayfinding techniques all from your home, thanks to virtual reality. It\u2019s a project called Kilo H\u014dk\u016b, which roughly translates to navigating the stars. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can buy a [virtual reality] headset at a very low price and be able to use it just like anybody else,&rdquo; explains <strong>Dean Lodes<\/strong>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/academics\/learning-design-technology-ltec\">Learning Design and Technology<\/a> PhD student.<\/p>\n<p>Kilo H\u014dk\u016b simulates being onboard the <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> and looking up into a cloudless sky. Lodes was part of a team of <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> students who created the program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/lava.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications<\/a> (LAVA) at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61402\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-kilo-hoku-2-260x146.jpg\" alt=\"image of Hokulea sailing canoe\" width=\"260\" height=\"146\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-kilo-hoku-2-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-kilo-hoku-2.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kilo H\u014dk\u016b&#8217;s virtual <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I guess when you are a kid, when you hear about the <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span>, it\u2019s like they\u2019re adventurers! It sounds so exciting and just so awesome,&rdquo; says team member <strong>Kari Noe<\/strong>, an undergraduate student of the <a href=\"http:\/\/acmsystem.hawaii.edu\/\">Academy for Creative Media<\/a> and the computer science department.<\/p>\n<p>Kilo H\u014dk\u016b allows users to navigate using the stars in a virtual setting. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Basically what I did was created a sphere model, and then I took images from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\"><abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr><\/a> and I pretty much mapped them on the reverse side of the sphere,&rdquo; explains <strong>Anna Sikkink<\/strong>, a recent computer science graduate. &ldquo;Then you can just put the <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> inside and look around.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The team hopes to someday make the program available to the public for free.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I really want this to be a very Hawaiian learning tool. And I hope that it will reach the people that for whatever reason cannot possibly see the <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> or Hikianalia or any of the sailing canoes,&rdquo; says Noe.<\/p>\n<p>Kilo H\u014dk\u016b team members are also quick to point out that there is much more to traditional wayfinding than a computer program. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s really a very small slice that we\u2019ve cut off having to do with wayfinding,&rdquo; says <strong>Patrick Karjala<\/strong>, who is working on a masters degree in computer science, &ldquo;But I think it\u2019s also a very cool slice that will really excite people that get to try it out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The public can experience Kilo H\u014dk\u016b at the M\u0101lama Honua Summit at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Convention Center June 18&#8211;20, 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications\">LAVA<\/abbr> students have created Kilo H\u014dk\u016b, which simulates being onboard the <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> and allows users to navigate using the stars in a virtual setting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":61407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[541,484,831,9,56],"class_list":["post-61399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-computer-science","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-laboratory-for-advanced-visualization-and-applications","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-kilo-hoku-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61399"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124672,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61399\/revisions\/124672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}