As we emerge from the experiences from the past few years, I think that we have learned (or re-discovered) the value of human connection. There is a renewed interest in supporting those connections better. You can see that interest represented everywhere: definitely in the flood of research coming from academia and industry. Collectively, we are…
A long-time friend and collaborator at the lab, David Lobser (known for working on projects such as Flock) organized weekly VR-meetups at our lab. (Credit goes to David for the images in this post)These featured talks and demos by local VR artists and engineers, and offered us a chance to connect with the community. The…
In preparation for the fall graphics class, I have been working on a basic “hand-made” WebGL live shader editor that accepts input from external text editors. The editor interacts with a simple server that checks for file and directory updates. The following video shows me slowly editing the shader on the left using Vim on…
It’s been a while since SIGGRAPH 2019, but I’d like to share a few of the highlights: Interactive Hand Pose Estimation using a Stretch-Sensing Soft Glovehttps://igl.ethz.ch/projects/stretch-glove/ Using a new fabricated material of the authors’ design, this stretchy skin-tight glove can track hand poses without being tethered to a machine. The glove requires no external cameras…
Several of us are on the way to the west coast to attend this year’s SIGGRAPH. This will be my first, and I am looking forward to meeting people there. I’ll have an update when I return.
Header Photo: viewing New York City from the edge of Roosevelt Island Earlier this week, a few of us at the FRL visited Cornell Tech to meet with the Mixed Reality (MR) group. We were kindly invited to discuss our work and see whether we might collaborate in the future based on shared interests. (I…
Here is a video of the current version of Chalktalk VR. Will (a summer intern) and I draw a simple scene together in the virtual version of our lab. I drew the boat in purple.
Most of us here are preparing a large palette of videos and experiences to present to visitors and potential partners. Within the general sphere of this activity, I am working to make Chalktalk’s multiple user support more robust, which requires a major rewrite of the core code-base. Since I’ve familiarized myself with the project fairly…
This Sunday we will be presenting Chalktalk VR as part of the World Science Festival. See the festival’s site here: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ and our previous publication here: https://frl.nyu.edu/publication_post/exploring-configuration-of-mixed-reality-spaces-for-communication/The location is Kimmel Center if you’d like to try or take a look. This will be the first time the system as it is now will be run…
Zhenyi, Ken, and I are waiting at the airport to depart to Scotland. There, we will attend SIGCHI to present our Late Breaking Work Exploring Configuration of Mixed Reality Spaces for Communication. I’m looking forward to all of the events and meeting other people in the field. First comes the voyage.