February 3, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Nick Holliman from the University of York and Jonathan Berry from Durham University talked about enhancing 3-D depth perception with audible cues. This work reflects the relative lack of depth, about +/-20 cm from the surface of the screen on a television. Although people are known to respond…
October 25, 2013, Robo Business, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Bruenig from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia presented their findings on vision and mapping. The main idea is to free the robots from their tethers. The current big driver for autonomy is in mining. The shippers want to have robot workers doing the…
une 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Avi Bar-Zeev from Syntertainment talked about “Inside the Looking Glass”. AR is starting to become cool as the devices get smaller and more functional. The newest technologies are blurring the distinctions between augmented and virtual realities and making them into a spectrum of experiences. Eventually, the hardware…
February 4, 2013, Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Donald Hoffman from UC, Irvine asked the question “does evolution favor true perceptions?” in his keynote talk. Evolution has always moved to work around poor designs with fixes that work with the least energy. We now know that about half of the brain is involved with visual processing,…