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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pilot Simulator

With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever bef...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Fiducial Marker-Based Navigation for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object d...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +1 more
Project Research

Domain Randomization & Synthetic Data Generation for AUAVs - Reducing Perceptual Uncertainty of Sim2Real Navigation

Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces ...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Living Observatory: Sensor networks for documenting and experiencing ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...

in Terrestrial Sensing · Responsive Environments
Glorianna Davenport · Joseph A. Paradiso +4 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #data +6 more
Project Research

E-maki: XR-enabled Scroll for Interactive Museum Artifacts

E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive ex...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #virtual reality #art +3 more
Project Research

Interplanetary Gastronomy

The  Interplanetary Gastronomy research  aims to address the unique challenges and opportunities associated with eating in...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +5 more
Project Research

The Interplanetary Cookbook

The Interplanetary Cookbook, developed by Maggie Coblentz, presents thought-provoking recipes and zero-g kitchenware for the future of li...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +5 more
Project Research

PhysioHMD

Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal · Abhinandan Jain +2 more
#virtual reality #bioengineering #human-machine interaction +2 more
Project Research

Tasting Menu in Zero G

 A multi-course tasting menu was flown on a zero gravity flight in August 2019.  Five specially crafted dishes were consum...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Project Research

Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +18 more
Project Research

Deep Reality: An underwater VR experience to promote relaxation by unconscious HR, EDA, and brain activity biofeedback

We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We mon...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Anna Fuste +1 more
#virtual reality #human-computer interaction #augmented reality
Project Research

Molecular Gastronomy in Zero G

A molecular gastronomy experiment was flown on a zero gravity flight in August 2019, using spherification techniques to create recipes in...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +4 more
Project Research

Bird: a 3D Cursor for 3D Interaction in Virtual Reality

Bird is a hand-controlled pointing system that translates a user's finger movements and positions into the motion of a 3D pointer in a vi...

in Object-Based Media
Aubrey Simonson
#virtual reality #interfaces
Project Research

The Blank Canvas

The Blank Canvas directs immersion inwards using virtual reality, augmenting awareness of the microscopic worlds inside each of us and th...

in Fluid Interfaces
Adam Haar Horowitz
#virtual reality
Project Research

Moments

Moments is a prototype designed for users to save special moments and to experience those moments in the future. Firstly, a multi-se...

in Responsive Environments
Fei Jiang · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #virtual reality #sensors
Project Research

BaguaMarsh

This project takes the idea of the unity between heaven and man of the ancient Chinese philosophy I ching (Book of Changes), combine...

in Responsive Environments
Fei Jiang · Don Derek Haddad +1 more
#virtual reality #storytelling #visualization
Project Research

CocoVerse: A playground for co-creation and communication in virtual reality

Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality 

in Fluid Interfaces
Hisham Bedri · Pattie Maes +3 more
#virtual reality #communications
Project Research

Learning to dance in VR

Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Misha Sra
#virtual reality #learning #interfaces
Project Research

EmotionalBeasts

With advances in virtual reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication through l...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#virtual reality #art #sensors +2 more

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