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Virtual Experience in Reality:
ACE 2016 Vol.2

During the late afternoon of November 9th 2016 — while the while the US presidential election results were trickling into various devices and the reality of the next four years was setting in for the people of the US and around the world — a group of researchers, academics and students gathered in Osaka to […]

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Virtual Experience in Reality:
ACE 2016 Vol.1

Osaka is famous for its food, nightlife, people comedy and people. During the second week of November, one of Japan’s liveliest cities also played host to the ACE 2016 (http://ace2016.net/). ACE, which is short for Advancements in Computer Entertainment, is one of the leading international academic conferences covering the latest developments in technology and computing […]

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Virtual Experiences in Reality:
Canon EXPO 2015

Once every 5 years, Canon holds the “Canon Expo”. In 2015 the Canon Expo was held in Paris, New York and Tokyo*. For Canon, the expo serves as platform to show not only what Canon has been able to achieve thus far, but also as a launching pad for what the company is working on, […]

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Virtual Experiences in Reality:
Scope+

Dr. Yu-Hsuan Huang and his team at the National Taiwan University saw a need for augmented reality applications in remote-collaborative settings when they undertook their research and development of Scope+. Scope+ is a stereoscopic video see-through augmented reality microscope. Dr. Huang is an ophthalmologist by training in addition to being a doctoral student in computer […]

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Virtual Experiences in Reality:
JackIn Head

Remotely and virtually connecting people has been an ongoing challenge and pursuit of people in modern society. Engaging and interacting with remote users who are in different locations has been realized and widely used for quite some time through the dissemination of commercially available video chat/conference applications. While these applications suffice for recreational and even […]