Zhu Wang

As many of you know, our lab has collaborations with Physical Therapy and Music Department on a few projects including the VR-based balance rehabilitation project I have been working on. Recently, our work was accepted as a presentation to the NYU Technology Summit (https://www.nyu.edu/life/information-technology/about-nyu-it/key-projects-and-initiatives/nyu-technology-summit.html). The summit aims at showcasing innovative and emerging technologies used in

I talked about collision avoidance by using Unity NavMesh in my last post. The result is great if you have an agent who needs to avoid all the obstacles no matter when they move or stay stationary. The NavMesh agent module in Unity takes care of the pathfinding, and the obstacle module defines what objects

Recently I tried Unity’s NavMesh to implement a prototype of collision avoidance module for our physical therapy balance project. Rather than using connected points and graphs to search and represent the optimal path, NavMesh(navigation mesh) defines the walkable space by polygons, and objects can walk through the polygons to reach the waypoints. Currently, in our

Our lab is collaborating with a few labs of NYU on a big project called Holodeck. The basic idea of the project is to create a platform for players co-located all over the world to join and interact with each other in a virtual world. The project Urbane from Visualization Imaging and Data Analysis Center

The year 2018 is ready to enter its 3rd quarter, 17 years have passed since the September 11 attacks. 17 years ago today, I heard that two super high building collapsed from airplane suicide attack from the news. At that time, I was still a junior school student in China. My life was no more

This is the SIGGRAPH week, a week that most of my colleagues have prepared for several months. This year, our lab has a CAVE experience demo showing in the East Building, rooms 19/20 of the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada. If you are currently in SIGGRAPH and reading our blogs, I highly recommend you to

The Tactonic floor mat is the pressure sensing technology that I use in my arch index research. It captures real-time pressure images so that we can get foot pressure and further monitor the variances of the pressure along movements. Figure 1. One of the major models that we use in the lab Figure 2. One

I introduced our VR balance assessment platform in my last blog post. This time, I am going to talk about a balance training platform which focuses on training patients to keep balance in complex visual environments. They are both from the collaboration between our lab and Prof. Anat Lubetzky in the Physical Therapy Department. These

Our lab has been collaborating with Prof. Anat Lubetzky in Physical Therapy on several projects. One of the projects I have been working on is a balance assessment project. The combination of VR and Physical Therapy is not a new concept. It has been increasingly used for decades, especially since the explosion of use in