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The Reality Lab Lectures - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
TALK TITLE: Nextgen AR Glasses: Autofocus, Telepresence, Personal Assistants
SPEAKER: Henry Fuchs (Professor of Computer Science, UNC)
RECORDING: Event held over videoconference (during the COVID-19 shutdown) and recorded by UW CSE Production Team
TALK ABSTRACT: Just as today's mobile phones are much more than simply telephones, tomorrow's Augmented Reality glasses will be much more than simply displays in one's prescription eyewear. For starters, these glasses will include autofocus capabilities for more comfortable viewing of real-world surroundings than today's bifocals and progressive lenses. Their internal displays will depth-accommodate the virtual objects for comfortable viewing of the combined real-and-virtual scene. The glasses will include eye-, face-, and body tracking for gaze control, and for user-interface, and for scene capture to support telepresence. The glasses will also display virtually embodied personal assistants next to the user. These assistants will be more useful than today's Siri and Alexa because they will be aware of the user's situation, gaze, and pose. These virtual assistants will appear and move around in the user's real surroundings. Although early versions of these capabilities are starting to emerge in commercial products, widespread impact will occur only when a critical mass of many capabilities are integrated into a single device. This talk will describe several recent experiments and speculate on future directions.
FIND THIS SPEAKER ONLINE:
https://cs.unc.edu/people/henry-fuchs/
http://beingthere.web.unc.edu/
© UW Reality Lab, 2020
http://realitylab.uw.edu
The Reality Lab Lectures - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
TALK TITLE: Nextgen AR Glasses: Autofocus, Telepresence, Personal Assistants
SPEAKER: Henry Fuchs (Professor of Computer Science, UNC)
RECORDING: Event held over videoconference (during the COVID-19 shutdown) and recorded by UW CSE Production Team
TALK ABSTRACT: Just as today's mobile phones are much more than simply telephones, tomorrow's Augmented Reality glasses will be much more than simply displays in one's prescription eyewear. For starters, these glasses will include autofocus capabilities for more comfortable viewing of real-world surroundings than today's bifocals and progressive lenses. Their internal displays will depth-accommodate the virtual objects for comfortable viewing of the combined real-and-virtual scene. The glasses will include eye-, face-, and body tracking for gaze control, and for user-interface, and for scene capture to support telepresence. The glasses will also display virtually embodied personal assistants next to the user. These assistants will be more useful than today's Siri and Alexa because they will be aware of the user's situation, gaze, and pose. These virtual assistants will appear and move around in the user's real surroundings. Although early versions of these capabilities are starting to emerge in commercial products, widespread impact will occur only when a critical mass of many capabilities are integrated into a single device. This talk will describe several recent experiments and speculate on future directions.
FIND THIS SPEAKER ONLINE:
https://cs.unc.edu/people/henry-fuchs/
http://beingthere.web.unc.edu/
© UW Reality Lab, 2020
http://realitylab.uw.edu
