Qi Sun is an assistant professor at New York University. Before joining NYU, he was a research scientist at Adobe Research. He received his PhD at Stony Brook University. His research interests lie in VR/AR, perceptual computer graphics, display, and computational cognition.
Shiri Azenkot is an Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech who does not like bloated bios. So here are the basics: Shiri researches accessibility, with a focus on emerging platforms like augmented and virtual reality. She publishes at the typical top venues for accessibility and HCI and has received the typical awards for someone at this stage in her career. She directs the XR Access Initiative. For more information talk to her at the 2024 XR Access Symposium.
With the advent of very high-resolution three-dimensional models via photogrammetric techniques as a primary method of archaeological documentation, the construction of immersive, high-fidelity simulacra is imminently within reach. This talk considers how the scale at which the human body interacts with immersive digital models are especially important for understanding the affordances and ergonomics of past things and places.
One way a person at the University of Rochester earns consideration for the Martin E. Messinger Libraries Recognition Award is through cumulative contributions to the educational mission of the library and service to students and faculty that goes above and beyond what is expected of all library staff.
Five days after the Battle of Antietam—considered a turning point in favor of the Union during the American Civil War—United States President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It states that as of January 1, 1863, “all persons held as slaves” in states that seceded from the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
As of 2021, only 146 universities in the United States—three percent—are designated as R1, meeting the Carnegie Foundation’s definition for the highest level of research activity. The University of Rochester is an R1 university.
Valentine cards represent love, affection, and friendship, but they can also tell us a great deal more.
Driving down Mobile Street in the historic district of downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi—or cruising it via “street view” in Google Maps—you can see buildings wearing the vestiges of a bygone era.
Hattiesburg Grocery.
Hawkins Hardware.
Bausch & Lomb Hall, home solely to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, sees few students who aren’t studying physics and astronomy. There’s a good chance some students in the arts and humanities will spend four years at Rochester without ever stepping foot in the building.
Even though I was originally skeptical of how engaging VR was, as I was hitting the virtual tether ball on the VR starter application “First Steps” for 5 minutes straight, I was entranced and fully enjoying myself. Even with the headset feeling a little too tight around my head, the controllers being tied a little too loosely around my wrists, and a little too much outside noise around me, I was immersed in a separate reality, momentarily overlooking my prior knowledge that none of what I was experiencing was real.
