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Professor Offers Keen Observations on Computing
When Paul Rosenbloom became the director of New Directions at USC’s Information Sciences Institute 15 years ago, he helped apply timely computing to...
USC Invites You to Mars: Traverse the Red Planet at Virtual Viewing Party Tonight at SIGGRAPH
Portable virtual reality device from the MxR Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies brings 3-D Martian landscape to your iPhone or...
ICT Computer Scientist Uses YouTube as a Research Tool
ICT Researcher Giving YouTube Views a Whole New Meaning Computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency is analyzing online videos to capture the nuances...
ICT Developing Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence Tools for Mental Health
Effort is part of a new DoD initiative to use telemedicine and virtual humans to address barriers to care and to provide better care for service...
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Debuts New Digital Double Pipeline Using ICT’s Light Stage
For the recent blockbuster Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, the ICT Graphics Lab collaborated with Icon Imaging Studio, Lightstage LLC and House of...
Out of the Box: USC Researchers Debut Smartphone 3-D Virtual Reality Viewer Made Out of Cardboard
Easy-to-assemble fold-out viewer transforms smartphones into portable immersive virtual reality systems. First 100 do-it-yourself VR viewers being...
Local Vets Needed for $11 Million DoD-Funded Study of ICT-Developed Virtual Reality Therapy for PTSD
$11 Million DOD Grant Funds Study of Virtual Reality and Other Therapies for PTSD Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Recruit Military and Civilian...
ICT Virtual Humans Change the Face of Training
At a Naval training facility in Newport, R.I., gunner’s mate Jacob Cabrillo, a new junior sailor, sits hunched in his chair, fully outfitted in his...
USC Institute for Creative Technologies Receives $135 Million Contract Extension From U.S. Army
Award allows for continued university-based research and development of interactive media for military training, health therapies and more. Sept.1,...