I’ve been thinking a lot lately about networking and how we use it for our co-located immersive experiences. What are the pressing questions as one designs such a system for shared experiences like these? In order to deliver these compelling experiences that exceed the capabilities of stand-alone, inside-out tracked devices such as the recent Oculus
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Last week, I had to take a week off to attend the final demonstration event for Niantic’s Beyond Reality Developer Contest. It’s a 4-month hackathon where participants create an augmented reality game that encourages exploration, exercise, and real-world social interaction by using Niantic’s Real World Platform SDK. Niantic’s Real World Platform includes a world-scale persistent
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Last week I helped Zhenyi install the Ubuntu 18.04 dual system, and install NVIDIA driver, CUDA-10.0, CUDNN, Pytorch-gpu. Although there are many tutorials on the Internet, only very few works. So I think it is better to make a record. BIOS setting Shutdown and reboot. And enter the BIOS interface. Disable the Secure Boot. If
On Oct 25, we are going to present a poster in a research showcase organized by The Center of Health and Rehabilitation Research (CoHRR). The CoHRR provides opportunities for networking and discussion in all kinds of research fields related to physical rehabilitation. The project we are going to present is our foot analysis system. The
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My favorite thing to do when I teach my graduate computer graphics is live coding. Don’t get me wrong. I love working through mathematical principles on the whiteboard. I really enjoy free-ranging conversations with the class on various topics. But live coding is in its own category. That’s the moment when the class sees me
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UIST 2019 is coming close. I went through the accepted papers this year quickly and preferred to discuss some interesting ones. First of all, I did not see many interesting papers in my area, which is good news because that means my literature review work could be large decreased this time. I split the papers
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Social presence, intimacy, & user agency is still an occurring issue in virtual reality experiences that involve social interactions. While remote virtual reality social media has been reiterated numerous times (i.e. AltspaceVR, VRChat, Rec Room), I think a physical shared space virtual reality social platform would be interesting to see in the future, especially with
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Kristofer and I found a paper Learning Implicit Fields for Generative Shape Modeling [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02822.pdf], which is about using the implicit function to do 3D reconstruction. They use a DenseNet-like structure. Unlike DeepSDF, they use a binary output. Given a latent vector and a 3D coordinate, the network will output 0/1 which expresses outside/inside. Its structure
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Our balance assessment research is currently at the point of transforming from a stationary standing paradigm into the dynamic walking paradigm. In the standing paradigm, we explored the assessment of anxiety-caused imbalance through various intensity levels of sound and visual flow. However, the dynamic and stationary paradigms are so different that we cannot use the
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A few years from now you go out to a local hangout with your date. The two of you, together with lots of other people in the room, put on your XR glasses,. Suddenly you are all sharing another world. You can walk around in that world, listen to stories, play games, experience moments of
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