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Project Research

Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…

in Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Dava Newman · Minoo Rathnasabapathy +3 more
#design #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +10 more
Project Research

Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #virtual reality #architecture +13 more
Project Research

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h - ABM)

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Parfait Atchade Adelomou · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +1 more
#social networks #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +2 more
Project Research

The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…

in Space Exploration Initiative · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
#robotics #virtual reality #architecture +15 more
Project Research

KnitworkVR

KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Irmandy Wicaksono · Lancelot Blanchard +1 more
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +6 more
Project Research

Capturing the Moon: Assessing virtual reality for remote Lunar geological fieldwork

Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…

in Space Exploration Initiative · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Cody Paige · Don Derek Haddad
#virtual reality #architecture #art +2 more
Project Research

Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#robotics #virtual reality #architecture +13 more
Project Research

Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy

​Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Pat Pataranutaporn
#virtual reality #human-computer interaction #art +4 more
Project Research

Battery-free wireless underwater camera

More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Sayed Afzal · Waleed Akbar +5 more
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +14 more
Project Research

Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision

X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Tara Boroushaki · Maisy Lam +3 more
#virtual reality #computer vision #artificial intelligence +10 more
Project Research

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Domain Randomization & Synthetic Data Generation for AUAVs - Reducing Perceptual Uncertainty of Sim2Real Navigation

Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Fiducial Marker-Based Navigation for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object det…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +1 more
Project Research

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pilot Simulator

With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Ahmed Allam · Jack Rademacher +6 more
#virtual reality #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +10 more
Project Research

Towards a Congruent Hybrid Reality without Experiential Artifacts

​Situated VR: Towards a Congruent Hybrid RealityThe vision of Extended Reality (XR) systems is living in a hybrid reality or "Metaverse" wh…

in Fluid Interfaces
Valdemar Danry · Misha Sra +1 more
#virtual reality #cognition #environment
Project Research

Living Observatory: Sensor networks for documenting and experiencing ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectivel…

in Terrestrial Sensing · Responsive Environments
Glorianna Davenport · Joseph A. Paradiso +4 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #data +6 more
Project Research

E-maki: XR-enabled Scroll for Interactive Museum Artifacts

E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive expe…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #virtual reality #art +3 more
Project Research

The Interplanetary Cookbook

The Interplanetary Cookbook, developed by Maggie Coblentz, presents thought-provoking recipes and zero-g kitchenware for the future of life…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +5 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +13 more
Project Research

Deep Reality: An underwater VR experience to promote relaxation by unconscious HR, EDA, and brain activity biofeedback

We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We monit…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Anna Fuste +1 more
#virtual reality #human-computer interaction #augmented reality
Project Research

The Blank Canvas

The Blank Canvas directs immersion inwards using virtual reality, augmenting awareness of the microscopic worlds inside each of us and the …

in Fluid Interfaces
Adam Haar Horowitz
#virtual reality
Project Research

Moments

Moments is a prototype designed for users to save special moments and to experience those moments in the future. Firstly, a multi-sens…

in Responsive Environments
Fei Jiang · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #virtual reality #sensors
Project Research

BaguaMarsh

This project takes the idea of the unity between heaven and man of the ancient Chinese philosophy I ching (Book of Changes), combines …

in Responsive Environments
Fei Jiang · Don Derek Haddad +1 more
#virtual reality #storytelling #visualization
Project Research

CocoVerse: A playground for co-creation and communication in virtual reality

Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality 

in Fluid Interfaces
Hisham Bedri · Pattie Maes +3 more
#virtual reality #communications
Project Research

Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib
#virtual reality #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +8 more
Project Research

Learning to dance in VR

Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those in…

in Fluid Interfaces
Misha Sra
#virtual reality #learning + teaching #interfaces

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