News
UNC Computer Science Team Uses AR to Treat Parkinson’s Disease [Media]
A UNC Computer Science team, in collaboration with UNC Health neurologists and physical therapists, is developing augmented reality tools to help Parkinson’s disease patients improve their gait and movement.
2024-11-01
Pranav Wagh – Best Healthcare Hack at HackPrinceton 2024 [Award]
Pranav Wagh won Best Healthcare Hack at HackPrinceton 2024.
2024-03-01
Ashley Neall – Best Use of Looking Glass at MIT Reality Hack 2024 [Award]
Ashley Neall won Best Use of Looking Glass at MIT Reality Hack 2024.
2024-01-20
PD-Insighter Paper Accepted to SIGCHI 2024 [Publication]
Our paper on PD-Insighter, a visual analytics system for monitoring Parkinson’s Disease treatment, has been accepted to CHI 2024.
2024-01-15
Praneeth Chakravarthula Rejoins UNC as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor [News]
Praneeth Chakravarthula returns to UNC as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science.
2024-01-01
Pixel-Planes 5 Honored in ACM SIGGRAPH 50 Years of Papers Collection [Award]
The 1989 paper “Pixel-Planes 5: A Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Graphics System Using Processor-Enhanced Memories” by Fuchs, Poulton, Eyles et al. has been selected as one of the most influential papers in SIGGRAPH’s 50-year history. The honoree collection is published by ACM (doi: 10.1145/3596711).
2023-08-01
Membrane AR Wins DCAJ Award at SIGGRAPH E-Tech 2017 [Award]
David Dunn and colleagues received the Digital Content Expo of Japan Prize in the Emerging Technologies category at SIGGRAPH 2017 for their varifocal AR display system using deformable membrane mirrors.
2017-08-10
i3D 2017: 2nd Place Paper and 3rd Place Presentation [Award]
The GVR group earned 2nd place paper and 3rd place presentation awards at i3D 2017 for “Scene-Adaptive High Dynamic Range Display for Low Latency Display,” by Lincoln, Blate, Singh, State, Whitton, Whitted, and Fuchs.
2017-04-29
Best Paper Award at IEEE VR 2017 [Award]
The GVR group won best paper at IEEE VR 2017 for “Wide Field of View Varifocal Near-Eye Display using See-Through Deformable Membrane Mirrors” by Dunn, Tippets, Torell, Kellnhofer, Aksit, Didyk, Myszkowski, Luebke, and Fuchs.
2017-04-19
GVR Varifocal AR Research Featured in RoadToVR [Media]
RoadToVR.com covered the UNC/MPI Informatik/NVIDIA research on a varifocal membrane-mirror AR headset achieving a 100° field of view while addressing the vergence-accommodation conflict.
2017-01-28
Two GVR Papers Accepted to IEEE VR and TVCG 2017 [Publication]
Two GVR papers accepted to IEEE VR 2017: Dunn et al. on varifocal near-eye displays using deformable membrane mirrors, and Chabra et al. on optimizing placement of commodity depth cameras for 3D dynamic scene capture.
2017-01-28
GVR Paper Accepted to i3D 2017 [Publication]
Lincoln, Blate, Singh, State, Whitton, Whitted, and Fuchs had their paper “Scene-Adaptive High Dynamic Range Display for Low Latency Augmented Reality” accepted to i3D 2017.
2016-12-16
Long Lasting Impact Paper Awards at ISMAR 2016 [Award]
Two foundational GVR papers received the Long Lasting Impact Award at ISMAR 2016: Raskar, Welch & Fuchs’s “Spatially Augmented Reality” (1998) and Bandyopadhyay, Raskar & Fuchs’s “Dynamic Shader Lamps” (2001).
2016-10-01
Henry Fuchs Keynote at Eurographics 2016 [Talk]
Henry Fuchs, Federico Gil Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill, delivered the keynote address at Eurographics 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.
2016-05-10
Best Paper Award at IEEE VR 2016 [Award]
Lincoln, Blate, Singh et al. won Best Paper at IEEE VR 2016 for “From Motion to Photons in 80 Microseconds: Towards Minimal Latency for Virtual and Augmented Reality”; UNC also received an Honorable Mention for Rungta, Schissler et al.
2016-03-19