Most people visit the lab on Fridays, including former students and collaborators. I like how active everything feels on this day, which manages to create an atmosphere of productivity and reconnection. I also enjoy to go around and catch-up on what everyone has been doing as of late, so I end up bouncing between tasks
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As you can see from my lasts couple of posts, I have been working a lot on volumetric capture solutions here at the lab. Recently, Zhenyi and I have been trying to streamline the pipeline we have constructed to record a person from different cameras, and merge the point cloud data from these cameras easily.
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This will be a shorter post than usual because I’ve been quite busy. Each day, I’m coming closer and closer to writing my Ph.D. thesis, and I wanted to give a very quick summary of what it will cover. Over the past 5 years at the FRL, I’ve been studying VR and AR, particularly in
Prototyping is an essential part of any project development during the pre-production stage. Prototyping, when done right, is not only a great way to answer design questions but also an efficient way of communicating your ideas with others. However, most of the time, we like to use the so-called “programmer art” in our prototypes and
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Before reading this blog post, read these two articles first. Age of Entanglement by Neri Oxman (Professor, MIT Media Lab – Mediated Matter Research Group) Design and Science – Can design advance science, and can science advance design? by Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab) I would summarize these two articles, but I couldn’t find any better way to word their ideas than
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This week, we were able to do some mocap tests with actors to get ready for our next production for SIGGRAPH. The tests went well and most of the data was really easy to clean except for a few problems with the actors’ feet – they probably grazed some of the markers on their legs
When people think of VR, they often imagine the applications it has in the realm of gaming. VR provides an exciting escape from reality and allows us to go on adventures we never thought possible. You can walk across the bottom of the ocean, fly through space, or explore dungeons teeming with treasure. With VR,
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This is an update to my previous post, “Inspiration strikes a chord!”, detailing my pet project to decipher the songs in some decorative piano rolls I found in a restaurant. For the genesis post, click this link! A lot has happened since my last writing! I now have an album overflowing with photos of a
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The basic idea of the arch index program is to calculate the ratio of the middle third area of a footprint to the whole footprint area. How we obtain and process the foot pressure image directly and severely determines the result. I recently upgraded my arch index program on the image capture module. In the
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Recently I applied some two-hand interaction to the content board in project multi-workstation. Previously, Ken said he wanted to try a horizontal board, not a eyes-free style, but a purely horizontal board. Inspired by that, I think it is worth trying to do content board manipulation. Intuitively, I implemented a simple translation and rotation based
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