#ZoomADay was a year long project exploring the creation and use of synthetic characters and deep fakes for use in online telepresence and …
“Power Props” is a sensor and actuator platform for Live Action Role Playing (LARP), immersive theater, theme park, and other transmedia ex…
8K-oi-Gan is a virtual koi pond in which koi patterns are generated by a StyleGan trained on thousands of images of koi and whose input noi…
COVID-19 and virtual commencements around the world were not what many universities had planned for the graduating class of 2020. Walking a…
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for buddin…
LILLI is an immersive, volumetric, reflective lightfield display using a hybrid of video and laser projection to visualize marine wildlife …
"Maka" - Eye, "Niu" - CoconutMaka Niu, aka the "CocoCam," is a low-cost oceanographic camera and sensor platform that enables th…
Play is a universal human need, reducing stress and supporting mental wellbeing. Swimming, surfing, diving, and other water-based activitie…
~~~This project is on indefinite hold due to COVID-19~~~What if we could leverage technology and modern cosmetics for good? To empower peop…
Games are a uniquely human endeavour, reducing stress and supporting mental well-being. Astronauts aboard the ISS have created their own ga…
Throughout the ages bioluminescence has inspired myths. Long ago, sailors in the Indian Ocean encountered massive bioluminescent blooms as …
Our eyes are our our mind's window to the external world. Vision is the primary way we sense our environment, and is a reliable indicator o…
SYNTHetic Biology — A Tribute to Greg Bear’s Blood MusicA musical ecosystem driven by and reacting to the movement of living biologic…
“I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting”…
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."The Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter universe uses UltraWide Band transmitters and receiver …
BubbleSynth translates motion tracking and blob detection data collected from floating soap bubbles into sound, by using the size, position…
We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and virtual reality headset to improve mi…
We are creating consumer-grade appliances and authoring methodologies that will allow hallucinatory phenomena to be programmed and utilized…
Suitable for anywhere a "Pepper's Ghost" display could be deployed, this display adds 3D with motion parallax, as well as optically relayin…
radiO_o is a battery-powered speaker worn by hundreds of party guests, turning each person into a local mobile sound system. The radiO_o br…
4K/8K Comics applies the affordances of ultra-high-resolution screens to traditional print media such as comic books, graphic novels, and o…
We have added inexpensive, low-power, wireless sensors to product packages to detect user interactions with products. Thus, a bottle can re…
An autostereoscopic (no glasses) 3D display engine is combined with a "Pepper's Ghost" setup to create an office chair that appears to cont…
Narratarium augments printed and oral stories and creative play by projecting immersive images and sounds. We are using natural language pr…
A basketball net incorporates segments of conductive fiber whose resistance changes with degree of stretch. By measuring this resistance ov…
We are expanding the home-video viewing experience by generating imagery to extend the TV screen and give the impression that the scene wra…
A physical interface designed for simultaneous social interaction with visual material. We built a hemispherical, multi-person, interactive…