Hi everyone, I’m sad to say that this will be my last blog post for the FRL, as I will be leaving here Friday after 5 years working with the lab. It’s been a great journey working with everyone here! My original plan was to write a retrospective on what I’ve done in the lab, …
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a quick and easy calibration method. This calibration method allowed us to not only map a virtual space to a physical space with reasonable accuracy, but synchronize a virtual space between multiple users. However, as I used this method in practice with the new Oculus Quest, I …
Last Sunday, I successfully defended my dissertation on Co-Located Augmented and Virtual Reality Systems, thus completing my Ph.D. program here are the lab. It’s been a wonderful time over these past 5 years, and the FRL has been a great place to study. *Of course, this isn’t the end for me, but really just the …
One of the things our lab has been doing for several years now has been taking people in the same physical space and placing them in a shared virtual space. One of the tricky things about this is that most virtual reality applications have some sort of built-in tracking system, but do not yet have …
I have been working hard on my thesis, but it’s nice to take a break from thinking about it every once in a while, so I’m going to talk about something different today. I recently celebrated my 27th birthday, so naturally, cubes have been on my mind (wait, what do you mean that’s weird?)… In …
I continually move closer and closer to defending my thesis every day. Today, I made some of the steps that push me into a final sprint! I’m quite excited to make these steps, so I’ll be writing about this today. The biggest of these steps was writing a rough draft of an abstract for the …
This will be a shorter post than usual because I’ve been quite busy. Each day, I’m coming closer and closer to writing my Ph.D. thesis, and I wanted to give a very quick summary of what it will cover. Over the past 5 years at the FRL, I’ve been studying VR and AR, particularly in …
I am getting closer and closer to graduation, which means that I am getting busier and busier. Sometimes, I find it helps to take a mental break from intense focus and think about something else for a little bit. So, today I’d like to write about something I find fun to program. One of the …
It’s a new year for all of us in the Future Reality Lab, and that means lots of new projects and ideas are in the works! 2018 was a great year for us, and an interesting year for VR overall. Between some of the first 6DOF self-contained VR headsets like the Lenovo Mirage Solo, and …
When I was a kid, I used to enjoy playing with toy blocks. They were colorful and varied in size, but were otherwise nondescript. However, I never noticed the plainness of the blocks as a kid. To me, they were infinite in form, anything but plain. In those blocks, I saw buildings, spaceships, monsters, and …
