UCLIC Research Seminar Series

Virtual and Augmented Reality interfaces have long promised to revolutionize the way we visualize and interact with 3D information. However, the need for devices such as headsets, controllers or feedback devices means that these benefits remain behind a prior boundary. That is, users will need to prepare, wearing the required devices before they can jump into the VR/AR experience. These devices also detach us from the real world around us. Quite ironically, they might allow us to have a remote conference with a friend at the other side of the world, but in doing so I might no longer be able to see the eyes or face of my daughter, standing right by my side.

In this talk, I will summarize my efforts to create immersive technologies allowing for interactive, virtual 3D content, but avoiding the need for any devices or instrumentation. Such technologies arise from the combination of 3D display technologies but also from the exploitation of physical principles (e.g. optical combiners, electric or acoustic fields), as a way to take away the burden from the user and into the display system and to enable 3D content that can be seen, or even heard and touched, directly in front of them.

Papers
[1] Martinez, D., Hirayama, R., Montano-Murillo, R. A., Subramanian, S., GS-PAT: High-speed Multi-point Sound-fields for Phased Arrays of Transducers, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH'20, Vol. 39, Issue 4, Article 138 (July 2020), 12 pages.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3386569.3392492.
[2] Tokuda, Y., Norasikin, M.A., Subramanian, S., and Martinez D. (2017). MistForm: Adaptive Shape Changing Fog Screens. Proceedings of ACM CHI'17. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4383-4395. DOI: https://doi.org /10.1145/3025453.3025608.