A couple of new pieces of technology have caught my radar recently. One is Valve’s Lighthouse Tracking System. This technology may replace the 10-30,000 dollar tracking systems that presently exist and remain an expensive selling …
Year: 2015
The Limits of Points
With the vizHome project – a significant challenge has been determining techniques to efficiently render the millions of points we capture by way of the LiDAR scanner. Some of the homes we scanned resulted in …
New HMD Comparison
It seems that these days new Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) are being released every month or so, with their cost rapidly declining since the days from 2004-2006 when I worked with one in graduate school. Overall, …
Multi-threaded loading of data in OpenGL applications
During implementation of the vizHOME viewer point rendering application, it quickly became apparent that with the amount of data we are gathering with the LiDAR scanner, we would need a multi-threaded technique for loading points …
Don’t Forget The Fundamentals
A big project I’m currently involved with is developing an out of core point cloud renderer for the vizHOME project. This application enables viewing of LiDAR scanned homes within our C6-CAVE as well as the …
Welcome
Welcome! The website is meant to serve as a location to share various thoughts and excerpts from a virtual reality researcher and software developer. I have been employed at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Living …