Hi everyone, I’m sad to say that this will be my last blog post for the FRL, as I will be leaving here Friday after 5 years working with the lab. It’s been a great journey working with everyone here! My original plan was to write a retrospective on what I’ve done in the lab,…
At this point, I have finished cleaning the mocap data and the facial animations for all of the characters, except for the 3rd scene for the monster. I have moved on to the “contact pass” for all of the animation. For this pass, I’m reviewing all of the animations for each character and making sure…
I am Keanan Pucci, a rising senior Tisch Game Design major who just so happened to be a PA for Parallux one day, and decided to stick around. As a new face at the Future Reality Lab, I’ve spent the past month exploring the different facets of this space and settling into my own work.…
Earlier this year, our lab got a lightweight IMU-based wearable motion capture system called Notch. The system is a set of six waterproof IMU sensors designed to be mounted on the body. The motion capture system does not use external cameras like Optitrack or Vicon which uses a group of infrared cameras to triangulate the…
Our Future Reality Lab has been focusing our efforts on creating extended reality experiences, by inviting people to share an alternate reality that exists nowhere in the physical world. But not all XR experiences are virtual. This past week I visited several amazing places in Silicon Valley. One of them was Facebook, which makes the…
Here is a video of the current version of Chalktalk VR. Will (a summer intern) and I draw a simple scene together in the virtual version of our lab. I drew the boat in purple.
I’ve been gone from the lab for the last 2 weeks, visiting family in Sri Lanka. In that time, the Monster’s character rig had been finished. So, I spent this week completing the facial animation for the monster in scene 4. The facial structure of the monster was a lot different from the other characters…
Hey Everyone! I thought it would be good to give a quick update on things to look out for on the FRL website. Here at the FRL we have many generous sponsors that enable us to do amazing research. In order to express our gratitude to them, I’m in the process of creating a sponsors…
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…
Rokoko motion capture suit is an IMU-based motion capture system with IMU sensors worn on the human body and recovers poses from measuring orientation and acceleration of each IMU sensor. The suit tracks all the major body components except fingers with 19 IMUs. Last week, Ben, Connor and I made a demo video showing how…