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Another subject I’m really excited about is the intersection between VR and neuroscience. There’s some extremely interesting projects utilizing VR to explore how the VR machine we’re all outfitted with, our brain, works. A saying I really like to use is, “the best VR device out right now is our brain – it’s essentially a

The past 2 weeks have been a blur. I’ve been helping out with a bunch of different projects at the lab and a couple of personal projects. I’ve worked on creating concepts for various theater configurations, visualizations for the Verizon AR application, and 3D printing figuring to visualize a large number of seated people. I’m excited about

Is it too early to start decorating for Christmas just yet? Yesterday was Thanksgiving. We spent time with our families, we ate a lot of food, and then we all took a nice power nap. But today…today is the day after Thanksgiving. So, should I start decorating for Christmas? A lot of people have very strong

A quick tutorial for installing Firefox ESR to browse old-but-good Java demos.

Since the very first day our lab started to use VR headsets, every single one of us has been imagining that the experience would be much more wonderful if we could have an untethered VR headset someday. In the last quarter of 2018, our dream finally came true. In the past September, HTC announced their

Recently I made small progress for project Holodeck. Holodeck is a project that several labs are contributing to for our vision of future interaction. It includes various components and different use cases. What I recently did is starting to create a unity client for sending and receiving data. The current network components of holodeck are all in

In 1959 the British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow gave a highly influential lecture in which he lamented the two cultures of the sciences and the humanities. He pointed out, rather accurately, that each camp had a tendency to look down on the other. while remaining ignorant of the great works on the other side

Last week I participated in the evaluation of an omnidirectional speaker built by Parichat Songmuang – a master’s student in Music Technology. Listening to a recording of a cello through the speaker gave me the illusion that the musician was with me in the room. The experience was so realistic and inspiring that it made

Chalktalk-wise: There is one “blackboard” in the desktop version of Chalktalk, but in Chalktalk VR there is the potential to have multiple boards visible simultaneously. To achieve this, I plan to reuse a feature that had a greater role in one of the earlier versions of Chalktalk–sketch pages. These allowed you to have multiple instances

Tomorrow, there is a little presentation on the usual Friday meetings we have here in the lab, and I’d love to talk about it a bit. As can be noted by some of my previous posts, I have been working for a couple of months on iPads and multi-user AR. First, I used Google’s Cloud