by ICT Admin | May 19, 2016 | News
CCTV-America featured research by Ari Shapiro and Andrew Feng to create user-like avatars. Shapiro and his colleagues’ Rapid Avatar Generator work reproduces a digital version of the user within minutes and at a fraction of the cost of existing technology....
by ICT Admin | May 18, 2016 | News
The BBC turned to ICT experts Mark Bolas and Skip Rizzo for a feature on the future of virtual reality. Listen to the interviews here. Read them here. Mark Bolas: “I’m worried by our current computer interfaces. I watch people walking around like zombies...
by ICT Admin | May 18, 2016 | News
A “Rising Star” story in online magazine Ozy profiles Skip Rizzo as a virtual reality pioneer who has been at the forefront of medical applications of the technology. Last year, Rizzo received the Pioneer in Medicine Award from the Society for Brain...
by ICT Admin | May 16, 2016 | News
An article on the Army homepage features DisasterSim, the ICT developed video game that trains soldiers in how to respond to foreign natural disasters. The article notes that the game can be downloaded for free from the Army’s Milgaming web site...
by ICT Admin | May 12, 2016 | News
An article in PrimeMind features the rapid avatar generation research from Ari Shapiro and colleagues. The article states that Shapiro and the other researchers at ICT are studying the emotional connections people have with their avatars. It also notes that the group...