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!
Our paper “Individualized Calibration of Rotation Gain Thresholds for Redirected Walking” has been accepted to the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments! Courtney Hutton will present at the conference in Limassol, Cyprus in November 7-9, 2018.
I will be teaching a new CSCI 8980 special topics course on virtual and augmented reality in Fall 2018! The class is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Interested students learn more on the course website.
We are excited to announce the Fall 2018 launch of the Illusioneering Lab! Please check back soon for more updates.