Our 2026 edition of the VCG Christmas party was a potluck afternoon tea, joined by our office friends of the AIMS research group! One might say we had too much food, but the leftover biscuits may feed our research papers for the weeks to come. Our White Elephant gift exchange saw the highest number of...

High Performance Graphics and Games Engineering student teams win first and second place for Games Technology at the 2025 Games Republic Student Showcase.

Our VR Lab, and specifically the VR/motion tracking area of it, received a significant face lift.

VCG was out for the second yearly VCG brunch/lunch (it moved up to 12:00) in the row to celebrate the end of the year.

We're delighted to say that we (and the rest of the School of Computing) have just moved into a brand new £96 million building - the Sir William Henry Bragg Building. Everything is sparkly new and the atrium (see picture) is spectacular! What a nice change from the austere 1960s atmosphere of the EC Stoner Building...

3-4:30pm 26th May, 2021. Please join us in this exciting event: Teams meeting link  

16 researchers, interns and PhD students from five universities took part in the annual Tableau Visualization Workshop, which we run for LIDA, the CDRC and the Alan Turing Institute to provide CPD in data visualization. “I recommend this for anyone looking to get into the BI space” said one attendee on Twitter.

Ruddle, R.A., Bernard, J., May, T., Luecke-Tieke, H., & Kohlhammer, J. The effect of alignment on people’s ability to judge event sequence similarity. IEEE TVCG. https://raruddle.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ruddle-ieee-tvcg-the-effect-of-alignment.pdf

We like to do both of those, and when snow falls the playing is most important!

Congratulations to Hamish on his promotion to Professor of Computer Science at Leeds.