Michael Gold

Over the past few weeks, I have been preparing for my first machine learning project. As part of this preparation, I compiled a list of introductory machine learning resources. This list includes material that I think is both intuitive and concisely explained. Essential Math for AI  This free course has short videos that review the basics

After spending the last week in Vancouver demoing our projects at SIGGRAPH 2018, I am thinking back on the months of work that led up to this event and the vision that inspired us. In this vision, we imagined dancing 3D characters that would be animated in real-time with the ability to respond to user

Our team at the Future Reality Lab has developed a new kind of collocated mixed reality experience that premiers this weekend at the SIGGRAPH show in Vancouver. Dubbed the “Post-show for Cave,” our experience uses the NVIDIA Holodeck for compute power, four of the HTC Vive Pro headsets for full field of view augmented reality,

53 days ago, we launched the Future Reality Lab Blog, and our lab members have posted every something new every single day since then. As we build up our library of posts, we have been discussing how best to organize this content. There are some obvious things we plan to do next— like creating bio pages

Where I left off in my last post about digital characters, I showed a visual of a dinosaur. If we examine the interaction of this dinosaur below we’ll notice that it has taken an interest in my cursor. I’ll argue that by following three rules shown in this example, anyone can create character interactions that

I left off in part 1 of this series asking why it’s easier to connect with some digital characters more than others. One aspect of the answer to this question is believability. Some people would equate believability with realism, but I would argue that the two are very different. So what exactly is the difference

Our group at the Future Reality Lab is researching how users will interact with the digital characters of the future. As mobile technology advances, we have seen animated 3D characters in new places. Where they once mainly existed in video games and cartoons, digital characters are becoming a popular feature in mobile messaging apps. With