Incubator Update: Virtual Field Geology
The Virtual Field Geology project has been busy publishing and presenting at the 2021 annual conference of the Geological Society of America. RECAP: Virtual Field Geology is a toolkit allowing… Read more »
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Encouraging URM students to continue on to Grad School
In April, the UW Reality Lab held a 2-day workshop designed to encourage and assist undergraduates – particularly those from Under Represented Minorities (URMs) – to continue on to graduate… Read more »
Virtual Field Geology: How the pandemic turned a small project into an essential academic toolkit
One of our UW Reality Lab Incubator teams expanded their project radically because of the pandemic. What began as a simple, virtual tour for geology students interested in a particular… Read more »
Superfly VR Project “graduates” from Reality Lab Incubator and onto Steam
The virtual reality action game “Superfly” was released on Steam in October and we’re very proud – because the UW Reality Lab Incubator helped it get there! It’s doing well:… Read more »
Exploring Spatial Computing in the Classroom
Awareness of how important spatial computing, distance learning, and telepresence are has accelerated in 2020, thanks to the ongoing pandemic. One exploration of this by the UW Reality Lab and… Read more »
How The Reality Lab Lectures adapted to the COVID-19 shutdown
The Reality Lab Lectures changed this year, but it did not stop. As covid-19 developed into a pandemic, we quickly re-imagined everything as entirely virtual, and went to work making… Read more »
Our Researchers at ECCV’20
The 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV’20) has accepted papers from several of our UW Reality Lab researchers: Reconstructing NBA Players; People As Scene Probe; and Lifespan Age Transformation… Read more »
New Benefits from 2018 Paper’s Computer Vision Techniques
Computer Vision techniques from the 2018 research paper, “Soccer On Your Tabletop” continue to be useful to the field. The paper, by UW Reality Lab leadership and researchers, was recently… Read more »
UW Reality Lab at CVPR’20
Two of the UW Reality Lab Directors each gave a keynote address at CVPR’20, and several of our researchers have papers, posters, and presentations there: Prof. Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman (Director of… Read more »
Background Matting at CVPR’20 and Build Conference
Our UW Reality Lab project on background matting has been getting attention lately – at Microsoft’s Build Conference, and in this Fireside Chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: “The next… Read more »