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There are so many papers to attend here at SIGCHI 2019 that the experience is quite overwhelming. At any given moment there are about 20 different things you can choose to attend, between all the courses, papers and other gatherings. There is a joke that going to SIGCHI is almost like not going to SIGCHI.

Zhenyi, Ken, and I are waiting at the airport to depart to Scotland. There, we will attend SIGCHI to present our Late Breaking Work Exploring Configuration of Mixed Reality Spaces for Communication. I’m looking forward to all of the events and meeting other people in the field. First comes the voyage.

Last Sunday, I successfully defended my dissertation on Co-Located Augmented and Virtual Reality Systems, thus completing my Ph.D. program here are the lab. It’s been a wonderful time over these past 5 years, and the FRL has been a great place to study. *Of course, this isn’t the end for me, but really just the

So, in my last post over I went over pretty much the main mechanic of my VR film: drawing. It took me nearly an entire semester to get it to a comfortable enough point where I could feel confident in moving on, but alas, here we are. Now comes the part that’s the most fun

Balance control is a complicated process, which involves multiple systems such as the vestibular system, motor system. A lot of factors can cause imbalance but the underlying connections between the factors and imbalance are not well researched. We approach to reveal the primary factors and their connections to balance by analyzing the parameters that we

Recently Alex and I were working on Aruco board detection. In brief, our result was very unstable and seems wrong. We don’t understand why, especially the code we were using basically the official plugin code from OpencvUnity. So we split the team. She started to write the part for sensor fusion and I decided to

Today I showed my undergraduate computer graphics class how to do bump mapping. That’s when you use an image to create a texture the gives the illusion that a surface is bumpy. It’s a technique originally developed by Jim Blinn in 1977. Instead of putting actual bumps on the surface (which is computationally expensive), you

One of the things our lab has been doing for several years now has been taking people in the same physical space and placing them in a shared virtual space. One of the tricky things about this is that most virtual reality applications have some sort of built-in tracking system, but do not yet have

So, despite the fact that I’ve now been developing in VR for one summer and nearly an entire semester, I still find myself going back to maybe the most simplest of things to do (in real life or in VR): picking objects up. Now, for seasoned VR veterans that might be reading this, I’m sure

Throughout the years, I’ve played numerous first person games. These games are often considered some of the most immersive games on the market because you see the events of the game unfold as if you were witnessing them with your very own eyes. When you apply VR to such games this furthers the immersive quality