VR, AR, XR ...

2023

April 3

Rather than making physical representations interactive, we pivoted to making virtual representation tangible instead
HoloTouch allows users to "touch" and manipulate holograms that they are seeing on HMDs (head-mounted displays) through their smartphone devices.
In the future, the new system proposed by this team of researchers could be used by designers and content creators to present data to students, professionals, or the public in more immersive ways.

2022

Jan 11

Jan 7

A jacket equipped with sensors that let wearers feel hugs or even punches in virtual reality was among the innovations giving the metaverse a more realistic edge at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Our mission is to turn the virtual into reality with a second skin; to add the sense of touch in the metaverse or video games
But as the metaverse evolves, society will also need to be wary of dangers from online ills such as misinformation, harassment and losing touch with the real world, some experts warned.

2021

Sept 15

The new eyeglasses from Xiaomi, in contrast, are meant to give wearers smartphone capabilities, such as reading email, taking pictures and responding to voice calls, but without a phone. Xiaomi has not abandoned the idea of offering AR applications though—their eyeglasses come with an app that helps guide users while driving and another app that overlays translated text
To provide smartphone-like services on an eyeglass frame, Xiaomi started by adding a tiny quad-core ARM processor small enough to fit within the frame, running a customized version of Android.

May 12

helping humans to improve their negotiation skills in a variety of fields.
Studying how humans tend to negotiate has been an active area of research for decades in economics, psychology and affective computing.
exploring the potential of automated systems that can negotiate directly with humans.
chat-based negotiation systems that allow users to communicate more freely by typing or speaking in a human language
pretrained language model
CaSiNo creates opportunities for numerous other tasks in affective computing and natural language processing (NLP), such as analyzing self-satisfaction and opponent perception from dialog behaviors

Simon's Comments:

This belong to VR, VR is not only for imaging but for all kind of reality such as conversation and negotiation like this.
This communication system will eventually merged with human community as part of the posthuman kind.
Let me call it virtual communication, VC. VC might be applied in legal situation, such as court case. In the past, there was court case in BINA48, and we will see if this is a signal for such emerging application.

May 3

In the future, the findings collected by Morandinezhad and Dr. Solovey could inform practices in social robotics and pave the way toward the development of virtual agents that human users perceive as more reliable.
Ideally, we would like to develop an algorithm that can predict this in real-time. That would be the first step toward adaptive, emotionally aware intelligent agents that can learn from user' past behaviors, accurately predict their next behavior and calibrate their own behavior based on the user.
functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI)
embodied virtual agents

Simon's Comments:

Would that create a human-virtual community, not just in the sense of human interact with virtual community, but in a sense of treating virtual reality as part of human life? Now we can offline from VR, but if we work constantly with VR, this is another question.
Is this the beginning of human-virtual “fellowship”?

April 16

MR cohort had a statistically significant mean increase
virtual human role-players have been shown to be as effective as real human role-players to support the practice of leadership skills
MR setting blended reality and virtuality, allowing participants to perform in a safe learning environment with known features

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