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The year 2018 is ready to enter its 3rd quarter, 17 years have passed since the September 11 attacks. 17 years ago today, I heard that two super high building collapsed from airplane suicide attack from the news. At that time, I was still a junior school student in China. My life was no more

This is the first blog posted when I officially came back to the lab! So excited that now I can talk about the detail of the ongoing project. The lab has been working on bringing Chalktalk to immersive environment for a while, and a lot of different devices has been involved in, like Vive, Oculus

I have come to realize that our lab’s research isn’t really about technology. Yes, of course we invent things. We write code, we build hardware, we publish technical papers. Sometimes we file patents. But the questions our lab asks are really about people. Such as: What happens when you provide to people, in all of

There were already many posts about the Cave, but I have yet to write about the design process which led us to create the prologue to the main show. The Cave was not only a VR experience. The first thing the audience experienced when entering the project space was an audio soundscape. Our goal was

I’ve just spent 3 days at the Future Port Prague Festival, where I gave a talk about CAVE. The response here was fantastic, and the city is enchantingly beautiful! I’ve met many amazing people here and have had inspiring conversations about the future of technology. Everyone agrees that shared mixed reality is the way to

Since I have been back from SIGGRAPH, we have been talking about ways we can make multiuser AR experiences that are readily available to the public without the need for AR specific equipment. Recently, I have started some testing with tablets, specifically iPads. Since iPads are commonplace when compared to XR headsets, this increases our

This week is the first week of my last academic year in the FRL. It’s been four years since I first started as a Ph.D. student, and it both feels like I’ve been here forever and like I just started yesterday. So, I’ve been thinking a lot about where we are, how we got here,

One of the great takeaways from a work trip is the time the team gets to spend together. The long hours at the conference and the early coffee runs to Tim Hortons, these are all small moments that bring us closer. But the week in Vancouver was not all about work. Some nights we had

Over the past few weeks, I have been preparing for my first machine learning project. As part of this preparation, I compiled a list of introductory machine learning resources. This list includes material that I think is both intuitive and concisely explained. Essential Math for AI  This free course has short videos that review the basics