Student Spotlight

Untouchable by Sylvia Ke

Sylvia Ke, a Junior in IDM, is one of the undergrad XR Lab Assistants, their piece Untouchable is a single-channel video of a virtual pole dance performance. The tools used to create this project were Unreal Engine 4, Optirack, Blender 3D


Web Face Capture by James Lee

James is 1st year IDM MS graduate student, his project Web Face Capture is a free, open-source web tool for you to record your face and turn it into a 3D animation file. All you need to do is go to the website. Allow camera and click record. Do as many weird faces as you want and voila you got a glb file with animation in it. This project is built in Javascript integrating third-party facial motion capture SDK with Three.js controlling blend shapes and writing keyframes in 3D models. This piece was make using mocap4face by alter Three.js


Inner Light by Sounak Ghosh

Sounak is 2nd year IDM MS graduate student, his project titled Inner Light is an embodied VR meditation on Light that uses brain activity (EEG) in real-time to visualize a virtual body (avatar). This project was created using Unity, Maya, Oculus Quest headset, and Emotiv Insight (EEG device).