In the next few years SmartPhones will be augmented, and eventually replaced, by wearables. When that happens, we will be able to see and hear digital information floating in the air between and around us, even in casual conversation. This will have profound effects on everything from work to education to entertainment to social interaction. …
One of my heroes in the field of computer graphics, Lance Williams, once told me that one of the wonderful things about CGI is that it “is limited only by your imagination.” Accepting that realization gives us enormous power as creators, yet Peter Parker’s uncle Joe was also right when he cautioned that “with great …
I recently took a look into the MultipeerConnectivity framework by Apple when I worked on an iPhone-based AR project. The MultipeerConnectivity framework is a lot easier for Apple’s ARkit to create a multiuser AR experience. Unlike conventional connections, the MultipeerConnectivity does not have to assign hosts or guests if you would like to define all …
I am currently working on ways to interact with four dimensional objects in virtual and mixed reality. It’s pretty much the realization of a childhood dream of mine. I always wondered what it would be like to be able to interact with objects that have four spatial dimensional, right here in our own world. As …
When the countdown run from 10 to 0 and the ball dropped in Time Square, we had to wave goodbye to 2019 and to all the happiness and sadness that came along with it. In the meantime, our new journey irreversibly boarded on the ship of 2020 which has just been christened by its champagne …
When I was a kid I would watch a cartoon called Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales on Saturday morning TV. Tennessee Tuxedo, who was a penguin, would go on all sorts of adventures with his pal Chumley, who was a walrus. Whenever they ran into a problem they couldn’t solve, they would go to their …
Some people wanted to Disable Guardian on the Oculus Quest (thanks to Mike for sharing the helpful instruction). A lot of them might have the requirement for obtaining the guardian boundary in their apps. In this blog, I am going to share the method to obtain and visualize the guardian boundaries in your Unity app. …
This evening the students in my graduate computer graphics class showed their final projects. It was quite unlike anything I have ever seen. The projects were group experiences, with every participant wearing an Oculus Quest VR headset. With the help of WebVR software our research team had provided, the students created shared amazing interactive shared …
One of the most frequent complaints I hear about developing for the Quest is: I have to confirm the guardian every time I put on my headset – and this can be many times during a coding session. If you’ve always wanted to disable these notifications, you’re in luck. With the latest firmware installed on …
I have been playing with Pytorch recently and found out that Pytorch is a much easier tool for me to start a machine learning project than Tensorflow. Pytorch uses a different design with Tensorflow and does not need to setup sessions or placeholders, so I feel the setup of Pytorch models is more intuitive. Pytorch’s …
