A small team here at FRL have spent these last few months experimenting with Oculus Quest and the Web* family of APIs, building tools to bootstrap immersive content creation for education (specifically, computer graphics education). For those unfamiliar with the APIs, here’s a quick introduction: First off, meet the Immersive Web, a working group with …
Today’s post envisions the state of XR five years in the future, and how we might prototype advanced features like room-scale digitization with current hardware. This latest generation of HMDs (Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift S, Valve Index, etc.) has swapped out external tracking equipment in favor of HMD-mounted camera arrays. This change is more than …
This is an update to my previous post, “Inspiration strikes a chord!”, detailing my pet project to decipher the songs in some decorative piano rolls I found in a restaurant. Click the following links for post 1, post 2!, and post 3! Time to up the ante. At this point, all my development and testing …
This is an update to my previous post, “Inspiration strikes a chord!”, detailing my pet project to decipher the songs in some decorative piano rolls I found in a restaurant. Click the following links for post 1 and post 2! *SPOILER ALERT* By the end of this blog post, we’ll be making music! Previously on …
This is an update to my previous post, “Inspiration strikes a chord!”, detailing my pet project to decipher the songs in some decorative piano rolls I found in a restaurant. For the genesis post, click this link! A lot has happened since my last writing! I now have an album overflowing with photos of a …
During a recent night out, a small detail of restaurant decor really caught my attention and presented itself as a fun computer vision problem. Here, let me show you some pictures. Do you see what I see? The bar lighting! The shades are made from repurposed player piano rolls! I spoke with the barkeep who …
The following recaps my term project to create a motion capture suite geared toward VR. Links to the source code can be found at the end of the post. Credit to S. Herscher for the problem statement and ideas. – N. G. Vitovitch Large-scale motion capture environments are prohibitively expensive; at the time of this …
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A quick tutorial for installing Firefox ESR to browse old-but-good Java demos.
