Papers
Paper accepted to ACM SUI!
Fei Wu will present the paper Don’t Block the Ground: Reducing Discomfort in Virtual Reality with an Asymmetric Field-of-View Restrictor at ACM SUI! The conference will be held virtually on November 9-10, 2021.
Announcements
Congratulations Jerald!
Jerald Thomas has been awarded a CRA/CCC Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship! He will be starting in January at Virginia Tech under the mentorship of Doug Bowman.
Papers
Best paper at ACM VRST!
The lab took home a best paper award from ACM VRST! Towards Physically Interactive Virtual Environments: Reactive Alignment with Redirected Walking was selected as one of the top two papers at the conference (132 submissions, 35 accepted). Congratulations to Jerald Thomas and Courtney Hutton for this well-deserved recognition!
Announcements
Congratulations Courtney!
Courtney Hutton Pospick has been selected as a 2020-2021 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar! The award is made to graduate-level scholars who have high scholastic records and have been identified for their potential to have a great impact on advancing science in their fields.
Papers
Paper accepted to ICAT-EVGE!
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.
Papers
Two papers accepted to ACM VRST!
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…
Grants
NSF RAPID grant awarded!
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.
Announcements
Congratulations Dr. Azmandian!
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.
Teaching
Instructional technology awarded!
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…
Grants
DTI grant awarded!
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.