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Yesterday our production got off to a rocky start due to network issues. But today, thanks to amazing work by our grad students, our CAVE production at SIGGRAPH has hit its stride. Just in the last day, our shared VR story has been seen and heard by hundreds of people — thirty at a time

Today is an important day – Cave will be finally presented to a public audience at SIGGRAPH! Because of this, I would like to talk about sound specifically in the Cave project. I lead Cave’s audio team with the help of Dennis and Tatiana who did a tremendous job preparing the sounds and programming the

The past week or so has been pretty hectic, so today’s blog post will be brief: a symbol for the little time left before SIGGRAPH 2018 and other deadlines. -The previous Friday we had a board-game night, as sometimes we take breaks; -[redacted] sent a film crew to the lab from Monday through Wednesday to

  As I am writing this, our lab is preparing to fly to Vancouver in a couple of hours. Actually, I am sitting in an Uber on the way to the airport as we speak. We have all been working so hard and hope that anyone who attends SIGGRAPH will stop by to view our

I’m going to take a break from talking about my research goals today, and instead focus on the thing that’s on our lab’s mind: SIGGRAPH! If you are unfamiliar with SIGGRAPH, it is the largest annual conference focused on Computer Graphics. Unsurprisingly, as CG affects practically every industry today, you will see a very wide

THE COUNTDOWN HAS STARTED!! We are officially 5 days away from CAVE’s premiere at SIGGRAPH. This post is about our animated characters. I decided to talk about this after overhearing a conversation at the lab yesterday. Three people were seriously curious about how the characters came to life, and they had many questions. So, this

Our team at the Future Reality Lab has developed a new kind of collocated mixed reality experience that premiers this weekend at the SIGGRAPH show in Vancouver. Dubbed the “Post-show for Cave,” our experience uses the NVIDIA Holodeck for compute power, four of the HTC Vive Pro headsets for full field of view augmented reality,

Another late night post 🙂 Last weekend was the Panorama music festival where I was able to see people hang out and enjoy the installation I worked with Kate Raudenbush, a Burning Man sculpture artist, for the LAB, a collection of five interactive tech-art experiences at the festival. The installation, As Above So Below is

With the production on CAVE coming to an end, I have gone back to working on keyframe animation. It’s something I think that has the potential to look better than mocap, if done correctly, but we couldn’t use it for CAVE due to the amount of time it takes to do it. I started to