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Recently, I had a chance to test the new released HTC Vive Pro Eye headset. The headset is the first VR headset integrated eye tracking, and it is hard to notice the hardware for eye tracking when compared with a regular HTC Vive Pro. Vive Pro integrated the eye-tracking technology from Tobii, which is a

In the NYU Future Reality Lab we spend much of our time thinking about the near future, because that’s what we can actually prototype and then study. But what about the far future — not five years from now but perhaps fifty years or more from now? One thing that I’ve been thinking about recently

It’s been a while since SIGGRAPH 2019, but I’d like to share a few of the highlights: Interactive Hand Pose Estimation using a Stretch-Sensing Soft Glovehttps://igl.ethz.ch/projects/stretch-glove/ Using a new fabricated material of the authors’ design, this stretchy skin-tight glove can track hand poses without being tethered to a machine. The glove requires no external cameras

A small team here at FRL have spent these last few months experimenting with Oculus Quest and the Web* family of APIs, building tools to bootstrap immersive content creation for education (specifically, computer graphics education). For those unfamiliar with the APIs, here’s a quick introduction: First off, meet the Immersive Web, a working group with

I went to Siggraph 2019 a few weeks ago and had some thoughts about VR. With the release of the various commercial VR systems from the technology giants, VR is no longer a mystery these days. More and more people in all kinds of fields began to see it as a profound tool rather than

I wish it is still not too late to talk about the conference. I was planning to talk about is two weeks ago but… Anyway, there are not a lot of interesting papers this year to me. Instead, I caught up with quite a few old friends who only show up at the conferences. That

We are well into the era when what we expect to see computer graphics characters in a live action film. Unlike characters in animated films, CGI characters in live action films are expected to be at least plausibly fit into the real world — although we are usually talking about a fantasy version of the

This morning Kris Layng and I got up in front of several thousand people and accepted the award for Best Art Paper at the Siggraph conference. The paper was about CAVE, our shared VR experience for large audiences, first shown at Siggraph 2018 (and thereafter at the Tribeca Film Festival). Our coauthors on this are

Several of us are on the way to the west coast to attend this year’s SIGGRAPH. This will be my first, and I am looking forward to meeting people there. I’ll have an update when I return.

This post is to share the solution of a problem that happened during the development with Oculus Quest. I got the solution from Connor (he was a colleague who has a lot of experience on Quest and just graduated in the summer). I have been working on a Unity project which requires to record position