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…
A quick tutorial for installing Firefox ESR to browse old-but-good Java demos.