UIST 2019 is coming close. I went through the accepted papers this year quickly and preferred to discuss some interesting ones. First of all, I did not see many interesting papers in my area, which is good news because that means my literature review work could be large decreased this time. I split the papers…
Social presence, intimacy, & user agency is still an occurring issue in virtual reality experiences that involve social interactions. While remote virtual reality social media has been reiterated numerous times (i.e. AltspaceVR, VRChat, Rec Room), I think a physical shared space virtual reality social platform would be interesting to see in the future, especially with…
Kristofer and I found a paper Learning Implicit Fields for Generative Shape Modeling [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02822.pdf], which is about using the implicit function to do 3D reconstruction. They use a DenseNet-like structure. Unlike DeepSDF, they use a binary output. Given a latent vector and a 3D coordinate, the network will output 0/1 which expresses outside/inside. Its structure…
Our balance assessment research is currently at the point of transforming from a stationary standing paradigm into the dynamic walking paradigm. In the standing paradigm, we explored the assessment of anxiety-caused imbalance through various intensity levels of sound and visual flow. However, the dynamic and stationary paradigms are so different that we cannot use the…
A few years from now you go out to a local hangout with your date. The two of you, together with lots of other people in the room, put on your XR glasses,. Suddenly you are all sharing another world. You can walk around in that world, listen to stories, play games, experience moments of…
A long-time friend and collaborator at the lab, David Lobser (known for working on projects such as Flock) organized weekly VR-meetups at our lab. (Credit goes to David for the images in this post)These featured talks and demos by local VR artists and engineers, and offered us a chance to connect with the community. The…
Recently we are working on a walking simulation. The task is to extract the valid part from an entire walking path. To be clear, an entire walking path is a sequence of pressure images provided by a pressure sensor. Each pressure image is a large image, of which only a small proportion is the valid…
The recent explosion of deep learning has demonstrated its awesome power, but data driven machine learning isn’t the end of the story. Machine learning is only one piece of the puzzle, in the future it will just be, as Ken has put it, “like a sine function”, could find use everywhere. It will be used…
Description As a combination of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, 3D reconstruction has been a classic problem for a long time. In recent years, with the development of Deep Learning, more and more researchers are focusing on 3D reconstruction with Deep Learning again. Related Work The number of work focus on 3D reconstruction is increasing…
There was a previous blog I wrote about Tobii eye tracking system embedded with HTC Vive. A few friends who are interested in it asked me about my experience with the eye tracking system, so I feel it is good to talk a bit more about it in this blog. There are currently two SDKs…