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LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th floor DescriptionThis hackathon held on the MIT campus is called Reality, Virtually because it will promote new …
LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionThe Disrupting Mobility Hackathon 2015 will be about creating your own concepts for an…
LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium Description
Hope, Alexis. (2021). Social Change through Community Innovation: Feminist and Participatory Design Approaches to Organizing Inclusive, Equitable, and Joyful Hackathons (Doctoral dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA).
LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium Description
LocationMIT Media Lab Description
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.
In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast P…
Yang, HS. "Variable reality : interacting with the virtual book"
LocationStockholm, Sweden Description
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…
Professor Canan Dagdeviren has been invited by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technolog…
LocationWorkbar DescriptionScreening of a 14-minute documentary about the Media Lab's "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" Hackathon with an int…
Professor Canan Dagdeviren has been invited by 3M to present as a guest speaker at their Global Tech Forum Seminar.She will virtually …
Media Lab spinoff co-founded by alum Jinha Lee is one of the 10 most innovative companies in augmented and virtual reality for 2020.
The objective of this project is to experimentally asses the impact of gravity reference frame on the experience of Virtual Reality (VR), …
Studying group dynamics in space environments with virtual reality simulations to inform the design of future governance systems
The Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon kicks off with inspirational talks by top designers, CEOs of women’s health companies who are f…
Variable Reality is an augmented reality system designed for reading digital and physical books more intuitively and efficiently. Through a…
By Phil TinnTo Dock, or Not to Dock?The last few years saw a rapid adoption of app-based taxis, shared bikes, and increasingly, …
LocationOmni Downtown Capital Ballroom 700 San Jacinto, Austin, TX DescriptionThe 21st century has introduced an array of technologies that…
Media Lab alum Judith Amores talks to Scientific American about a lightweight, wireless interface to deliver scents to VR users.
Bird is a hand-controlled pointing system that translates a user's finger movements and positions into the motion of a 3D pointer in a virt…
Bernal, Guillermo, Hahrin Jung, Ismail Emir Yassi, Nelson Hidalgo, Yodahe Alemu, Tyler Barnes-Diana, and Pattie Maes. 2024. "Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental and Visuospatial Workload in Virtual Reality Environments" Computers 13, no. 10: 246. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13100246
Josh Lifton, Joseph A. Paradiso
V. Danry, E. Villa, S. Chan and P. Maes, "ReLive: Walking into Virtual Reality Spaces from Video Recordings of One's Past Can Increase the Experiential Detail and Affect of Autobiographical Memories," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2025.3549845.
Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…
What if you could go back in time to your childhood homes? Or what if you could revisit an old vacation spot that you once visited? Or even…
Tapping into the physicality of language to enhance the way we learn.
Christian Vázquez, Lei Xia, Takako Aikawa, Pattie Maes "Words in Motion: Kinesthetic Language Learning in Virtual Reality", 2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
August 4 – 7 (SUN – TUE), 20249–11:00pm EDTThis is an online 4-day workshop consisting of software tutorials and rapid prototyping. P…
SCUBA diving as a sport has enabled people to explore the magnificent ocean diversity of beautiful corals, striking fish, and mysterious wr…
Don Derek Haddad, Gershon Dublon, Brian Mayton, Spencer Russell, Xiao Xiao, Ken Perlin, Joseph A. Paradiso
LocationChicago, IL DescriptionIn the last decade sensors have become cheaper, faster, and more ubiquitous, enabling automatic collection o…
Daniel Platnick, Matti Gruener, Marjan Alirezaie, Kent Larson, Dava J. Newman and Hossein Rahnama
Gupta, K., Chan, S. W. T., Pai, Y. S., Strachan, N., Su, J., Sumich, A., ... & Billinghurst, M. (2022). Total VREcall: using biosignals to recognize emotional autobiographical memory in virtual reality. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6(2), 1-21.
Chan, S., Ryskeldiev, B., & Nanayakkara, S. (2022, October). DeclutterAR: Mobile Diminished Reality and Augmented Reality to Address Hoarding by Motivating Decluttering and Selling on Online Marketplace. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) (pp. 870-874). IEEE.
Discourse on hackathons tends to emphasize projects and project creators rather than the events as a social practice within existing commun…
DescriptionRamesh Raskar: "What is Next in Augmented Reality"; 8th Brazilian Conference of Design Research and Development - P&D; DESIGN 20…
We present Large Language Model for Mixed Reality (LLMR), a framework for the real-time creation and modification of interactive Mixed Real…
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A growing body of research shows how AI can subtly mislead users—and even implant false memories.
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
Virtual reality, augmented reality, and extended reality present value-creative opportunities for rethinking and reframing customer and use…
Tara Boroushaki, a PhD student in the Signal Kinetics group, explains how she's combined AR and wireless signals to find hidden objects.
Simonson, Aubrey and Pattie Maes. “Pervasive Augmented Reality and the Panopticon.” (April 24, 2020).
Former Research Affiliate; Former Research Assistant, Civic Media
https://everettlawson.com/biologically-encoded-augmented-reality-systems-integration-and-geometric-reform/Information floods the center of …
We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and virtual reality headset to improve mi…
Judith Amores ; Robert Richer ; Nan Zhao ; Pattie Maes ; Bjoern M. Eskofier. "Promoting relaxation using virtual reality, olfactory interfaces and wearable EEG." Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). April 5, 2018.
Dhruv Jain, Misha Sra, Jingru Gro, Rodrigo Marques, Raymond Wu, Justin Chiu, Chris Schmandt
The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point the…
The Lab's X-Reality Working Group explores the fluid merger of "real" and "virtual" worlds, looking broadly at "cross reality" at several l…
LocationAugmented World Expo, Santa Clara California DescriptionCurrently, we use Augmented Reality mainly to superimpose virtual content w…
MIT Media Lab Mobility++ Workshop【多元運輸】工作坊2017 11月28日～30日 In celebration of the launch of City Science Lab @ TaipeiTechAb…
For my "How to Make Almost Anything" [HTMAA] class, I attempted to build holographic glasses for augmented reality. These glasses wou…