Two weeks ago, I participated in the Global Game Jam at the NYU Game Center jam site for the first time. I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some amazing artists and engineers, including two of our lovely FRL Lab members, Pasan and Marcus. It was a stressful but exhilarating experience…
This past May, Google announced an open source computer vision and deep learning project called PoseNet for TensorFlow.js that is able to estimate human poses using only Javascript. I decided to check out the library and see what type of results I could get using the webcam on my laptop. Open Pose, the previous real-time…
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…
With the start of the new semester this last week, I realized that I have only 2 months to finish my museum. There’s a lot left to do in regards to the modeling and visual development of the structure but it occurred to me that I hadn’t put a lot of thought into the player…
Having just begun my work as the administrator last week, there’s already many new things that I’ve started working on. Recently I’ve been testing updates for the FRL website. With these updates readers (like you!) will become more familiar with the lab’s members, as well as the fantastic work they’ve done. In particular, I am…
I have been developing applications for Pressure-sensing floor mat for the past few years. When comparing to typical motion capture devices, floor mat proved it is irreplaceable on the tasks such as monitoring weight shifting and muscle movement. One piece of the floor mat is only about 2 sqft. People may not be able to…
Recently, we are trying to setup a framework to account latency for either video pass-through or optical see-through glasses based on IMU data. Suppose we can find the pattern of head movement, especially for rotation movement, so we can predict where the head’s rotation will be. Thus we can pre-rotate the world for the user…
Last week I ordered 100 VR viewers from a company called TinyDeal in China. They are only $2 each, so my total cost was $200. That is such a low price that in a sense they are free. Once things cost just $2 apiece, you can basically hand them out as party favors. Those little…
Recently I have been working on a C++ 2D renderer that I hope to use for a couple of projects, including the game I have discussed in previous posts. One project is a mini C++ graphics coding playground, inspired in-part by the simplicity of Processing and the instant-feedback of Professor Ken Perlin’s GLSL shader graphics…
Honestly… I still have trouble explaining what I do to people. And everything in this post is purely my opinion, take it with a grain of salt. But, back to the subject, living in 2019, there’s a plethora of emerging technologies that are now fairly easily accessible for individuals to get started with. Along with…