by ICT Admin | Aug 21, 2015 | News
An article in Wired covered redirected walking research and the potential for virtual reality to allow people to explore immersive virtual spaces—like buildings or even whole cities—on foot in head-mounted displays. “This problem of how you move around when in VR is...
by ICT Admin | Aug 13, 2015 | News
The Verge, in a story about this year’s SIGGRAPH conference, highlighted the ICT Graphics Lab’s digital skin stretch research, which was presented at the conference. The demo showed off the highly-detailed texture of skin as photo-realistic, digital faces...
by ICT Admin | Aug 13, 2015 | News
The MxR Lab has been hard at work creating a unique immersive experience called “Discovering Near-Field VR: Stop Motion with a Touch of Light-Fields and a Dash of Redirection,” which just won the Immersive Realities AR/VR Contest at SIGGRAPH 2015. The Immersive...
by ICT Admin | Aug 10, 2015 | News
Time highlighted research by Mark Bolas of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies on the potential impact of virtual reality. “I believe we’re in the virtual world now more than the real world already. It’s just that our interface sucks,”...
by ICT Admin | Aug 1, 2015 | News
The July issue of Wired UK highlights the story of Chris Merkle, a U.S. veteran who used ICT’s virtual reality therapy for treatment of his PTSD. Encountering virtual reality in the summer of 2013 was “an amazing thing”, he says. “I was so much...