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I’ve spent a bit of time implementing a new feature for the Multiuser Workstation / Chalktalk VR project in which you can opt to follow another user’s movements and watch the world from the alternative perspective the other user offers. Unfortunately, I don’t think that the result works as nicely as I imagined it would.

I continually move closer and closer to defending my thesis every day. Today, I made some of the steps that push me into a final sprint! I’m quite excited to make these steps, so I’ll be writing about this today. The biggest of these steps was writing a rough draft of an abstract for the

Hello all! As the relative “newbie” of the Future Reality Lab, with this inaugural blog post I’d like to take some time to introduce both myself and the research I’ll be working on for the last 3 semesters of my undergraduate career. Firstly, my name’s Sam. I’m in my junior year currently pursuing a major

The last few weeks I’ve been working on the interior for the museum. After planning for a few days, I made a blockout of the interior and made a lighting test. I’m pretty happy with the way it’s come out so far but the space feels a bit too empty and static. The walkways connecting

When we play games or watch movies, we often encounter technologically generated people. Like real actors, they’ve managed to become just as ingrained in our lives as their human counterparts. We know they aren’t real, but we still accept and enjoy the entertainment they provide. But what happens when CGI characters have the opposite effect?

I have been working on Arch Index measurement by utilizing Tactonic pressure-sensing floor mats. Recently I updated my Arch Index software to make the results more similar to the ones obtained by Harris Mat which is the traditional measurement widely used in clinics. Please see https://mattressiter.com/everyday-could-be-the-day/ and https://mattressiter.com/improved-arch-index-program/ if you are interested in how it

Recently I just support various configurations for multiple boards. We have multiple boards for a while, which means we can fully use the limitless space in VR. However, it only happened in our side-by-side configuration. It costed my a while to find the correct math to support the other two configurations, mirrored face-to-face and eyes-free.

Just for fun, as long as I was teaching ray tracing to my class, I created a cool ray traced animated planet. I did it in such a way that you can see and edit the shader code right next to the animated planet itself. By changing different things in the code, you can explore

3D audio is necessary to create presence in any VR experience. But when to use it? According to Walter Murch – the father of sound design – people cannot distinguish between more than 3 auditory events at the same time (of a similar auditory characteristic). We can assume then, that there is a limit to