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Journey Started on Spatial Audio
I have been playing with the first audio sunglasses from Bose, Bose Frames. With two speakers integrated separately into the temples sitting in front of the ears, Bose Frames beam music right into your ears and provide open-air audio experience…
Grasping real and virtual objects
One of the goals of our lab is to allow people in a shared mixed reality to collaborate together in manipulation of objects. Those objects might be real solid physical objects, or they might virtual objects, which exist only in our collective visual and auditory perception. One challenge is to create a seamless way of dealing with these two very different classes of objects. Your…
Walking Balance with Vive Trackers on the Ankles
I have been working on a platform combined with HTC Vive and pressure-sensing technologies to assess human balance in the walking paradigm. With the two new Vive trackers, we can now track foot position and orientation. Vive base stations can track the Vive trackers, so the setup only requires two Vive trackers mounted on the outside of the ankles. We use the HTC Vive Pro…