Hi everyone, this is my last post on the blog. Farewell is always difficult for me, so I’ll keep this short. Working at FRL has been an incredible experience from the beginning. There are no words to described how welcomed I was by the team, and it was impossible to imagine how much this experience…
Statistics say that by 2020 1/3 of the population will be using VR, and by 2022, 3.5 billion will be using AR. Although it seems like VR and AR were born yesterday, and it’s boomed at the speed of light, these technologies have actually been around much longer than that. Some would say as early…
Those were the days where people interacted with simple visual or textual ads. Now, we walk by them on the subway and on the streets without a second glance. Our generation has became immune to much of the visual noise and over stimulation around us. So, many companies are beginning to use Virtual Reality to…
Hi everyone, I don’t want to get political, and I know this conversation is much bigger than this short post. But I wanted to share with you on a very interesting article I read: “China’s use of big data might actually make it less Big Brother-ish.” I grew up in China. I remember very early…
At the beginning of every semester, we have people go, but we also have incredible and talented new students joining us! It’s a bittersweet situation. Today, I want to introduce you to Nina and Christy. They are the new member of our family. Meet Christy! from Detroit, Michigan M: Tell me a little secret about you?…
Today, Pasan, Kris, Thomas and I went to Times Square to try a new VR game and experience in New York city: Jurassic World VR Expedition. The plot is that you and three friends are inside a safari car going through a jungle filled with dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are all around you, they scare you,…
One of the great takeaways from a work trip is the time the team gets to spend together. The long hours at the conference and the early coffee runs to Tim Hortons, these are all small moments that bring us closer. But the week in Vancouver was not all about work. Some nights we had…
Two weeks ago, I was writing excitedly about our final countdown to SIGGRAPH. Today, I write even more excited to tell you about our success, the enormous turnout, the 4 days in a row of fully booked seats, and the 1924 people that watched CAVE last week. Our goal was to get 1800 people through…
THE COUNTDOWN HAS STARTED!! We are officially 5 days away from CAVE’s premiere at SIGGRAPH. This post is about our animated characters. I decided to talk about this after overhearing a conversation at the lab yesterday. Three people were seriously curious about how the characters came to life, and they had many questions. So, this…
For a tech lab’s blog to have tech-related posts is to be expected, but we have so much more to offer. This is where I come in; I’m your bi-weekly post on everything but, well… tech. Let me start by introducing myself: I’m Mia, Associate Producer of CAVE. While the production team is currently working…