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Over the last two years working with the Immersive Audio Group at NYU, I engineered more than 20 music recording sessions in VR. We captured audio and video in 360 which means that the viewer could later rotate the head in VR to see and listen in 3D. Our main goal was to find the

Last week we showed CAVE to the Disney StudioLAB in Burbank, California. It was a hit, and it was thrilling to see how enthusiastic the Disney team was about our special little project. StudioLAB is located in the old animation building at Disney, ground zero for where many classic films were created going back to

This semester at the FRL lab, I worked on a virtual reality project led by Zhenyi and Karl. We worked in Unity, using an asset called Photon, to network multiple objects into one scene on different computers. The goal is to eventually get multiple people in VR in the same scene that are able to

For SIGGRAPH 2018, we decided to do a VR experience with an audience. Although we have not yet moved away from VR, recently we have been testing how AR could excel at being a platform for storytelling as well. I placed a lizard character in the center of our lab walking around and holding a

When I was a kid, I used to enjoy playing with toy blocks. They were colorful and varied in size, but were otherwise nondescript. However, I never noticed the plainness of the blocks as a kid. To me, they were infinite in form, anything but plain. In those blocks, I saw buildings, spaceships, monsters, and

Hi everyone, this is my last post on the blog. Farewell is always difficult for me, so I’ll keep this short. Working at FRL has been an incredible experience from the beginning. There are no words to described how welcomed I was by the team, and it was impossible to imagine how much this experience

Over the past few years, I have put together a software stack for storing, organizing, and annotating the PDF documents – mainly slides and research papers. I wanted a system that would let me take notes on my documents from any of my devices and would give me the ability to search through all my

Go take a vacation. It’s healthy. I’m writing this blog post in a hotel in Amsterdam. I finally decided to take a nice week long vacation, after a pretty crazy year. And I can’t stress this enough, you can get burned out – make sure to take care of your mind and body. Work is

Over the last 2 weeks, Thomas and I had been figuring out how to get good facial capture results through the use of Faceware. I mentioned in my previous post that I was really looking forward to working with the tech and that it seemed pretty straightforward. And I was right. The software is very

Ever want to sing out loud or scream without anyone else being able to hear you? Well now you can!! We have a new sound booth! Christy and I had the daunting task of setting up the booth. Fortunately, the company sent instructions along with the shipment. The sound booth is located in the corner