Fei Wu will present the paper Comparison of Audio and Visual Cues to Support Remote Guidance in Immersive Environments at ICAT-EVGE 2020! Special congratulations to co-author Shreyas Chinnola, who was a high school student at the time this research was conducted. The conference will be held virtually on December 2-4.
The lab has two full papers accepted at ACM VRST 2020! Jerald Thomas will present the paper, Towards Physically Interactive Virtual Environments: Reactive Alignment with Redirected Walking. Evan Suma Rosenberg will present Capture to Rendering Pipeline for Generating Dynamically Relightable Virtual Objects with Handheld RGB-D Cameras. The conference will be held virtually Read more…
We have been awarded a $200,000 RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate virtual reality and social distancing compliance! This project is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Richard Landers from the Department of Psychology.
Mahdi Azmandian received Honorable Mention for the 2019 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award! This award is presented each year to the author of the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation, defended during the preceding two calendar years, in the broad areas of virtual and augmented reality.
We are excited to announce that the College of Science and Engineering has provided instructional technology funds for 100 Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets to support classroom instruction and student projects! The new VR systems will be used extensively this fall in CSCI 5619 and will also be made broadly Read more…
We have been awarded a Digital Technology Initiative Seed Grant to develop a new virtual reality system architecture for edge-assisted immersive computing, in collaboration with Feng Qian and Dan Keefe.
We have been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for the prediction, early detection, and mitigation of virtual reality motion sickness! This project is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Victoria Interrante (Computer Science & Engineering) and Thomas Stoffregen (Kinesiology).
Our chapter, “Exploring Large Environments with Redirected Walking,” has been published in VR Developer Gems.
The Illusioneering Lab has five submissions accepted at the IEEE VR 2019, the premier academic conference on virtual reality and 3D user interfaces! Jerald Thomas will present the paper, A General Reactive Algorithm for Redirected Walking using Artificial Potential Functions. Courtney Hutton will present Augmented Reality Interfaces for Semi-Autonomous Drones Read more…
Congratulations to Chih-Fan Chen, who presented his research on “Rapid Creation of Photorealistic Virtual Reality Content with Consumer Depth Cameras” and passed his Ph.D. dissertation defense!