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Tabletop-Strategie in Virtual Reality: "Grit and Valor – 1949 VR" ausprobiert
Strategiefans dürfen sich in "Grit and Valor – 1949 VR" auf Miniatur-Schlachten mit Mechs freuen, müssen sich aber auf eine unpräzise Steuerung einstellen.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Get Real – How Community Informs Reality #community #musicianresources #musiciantips

Get Real - How Community Informs Reality
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Fußballschauen in Mixed Reality: Spielerei oder echter Mehrwert?
Eine kostenlose Mixed-Reality-App des Sport-Streamingdienstes DAZN möchte das Fußballerlebnis aufs nächste Level heben. Wir haben sie auf Quest 3 ausprobiert.

🎨 New catalyst could make mixed plastic recycling a reality
#chemistry

New catalyst could make mixed plastic recycling a reality
The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can drastically reduce—or perhaps even fully bypass—the laborious chore of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste.

AUTOVR: Automated UI Exploration for Detecting Sensitive Data Flow Exposures in Virtual Reality Apps
John Y. Kim, Chaoshun Zuo, Yanjie Zhao, Zhiqiang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12187

AUTOVR: Automated UI Exploration for Detecting Sensitive Data Flow Exposures in Virtual Reality Apps
The rise of Virtual Reality (VR) has provided developers with an unprecedented platform for creating games and applications (apps) that require distinct inputs, different from those of conventional devices like smartphones. The Meta Quest VR platform, driven by Meta, has democratized VR app publishing and attracted millions of users worldwide. However, as the number of published apps grows, there is a notable lack of robust headless tools for user interface (UI) exploration and user event testi…

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13116 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Virtual reality (VR) development relies on game engines to provide real-time rendering, physics simulation, and interaction systems. Among the most widely used game engines, Unreal Engine and Unity dominate the industry, offering distinct advantages in graphics rendering, performance optimization, usability, resource requirements, and scalability. This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of both engines, evaluating their capabilities and trade-offs through empirical assessments …

Auditory augmented reality for wellbeing #AR #AAR

Auditory Augmented Reality for Well-Being

Augmented reality (AR) harbors an ocularcentric bias toward visual augmented reality (VAR), at the expense of auditory augmented reality (AAR). The latter is more readily available, technologically simpler and lower cost, with great potential for improving human well-being, what we call AAR for Well-being (AAR4W). In our chapter, we discuss the history of AR from this perspective, then present several AAR4W projects, each extending reality with acousmatic sound, as informed, in varyi…

Joe Burrow injury brings to light a jarring reality: Having a backup plan at QB is paramount to success

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/joe-bur

XR-NPE: High-Throughput Mixed-precision SIMD Neural Processing Engine for Extended Reality Perception Workloads
Tejas Chaudhari, Akarsh J., Tanushree Dewangan, Mukul Lokhande, Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13049

XR-NPE: High-Throughput Mixed-precision SIMD Neural Processing Engine for Extended Reality Perception Workloads
This work proposes XR-NPE, a high-throughput Mixed-precision SIMD Neural Processing Engine, designed for extended reality (XR) perception workloads like visual inertial odometry (VIO), object classification, and eye gaze extraction. XR-NPE is first to support FP4, Posit (4,1), Posit (8,0), and Posit (16,1) formats, with layer adaptive hybrid-algorithmic implementation supporting ultra-low bit precision to significantly reduce memory bandwidth requirements, and accompanied by quantization-aware …

In a 30-minute test, Meta Ray-Ban Display was as spotty as Zuckerberg's failed demos, with the wristband occasionally failing to register finger swipes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/technology/personaltech/meta-smar…

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta’s Smart Glasses
Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch-filled unveiling of computerized glasses revealed a company that may struggle to deliver on its promise for the future of computing.

Human Interaction for Collaborative Semantic SLAM using Extended Reality
Laura Ribeiro, Muhammad Shaheer, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Ali Tourani, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14949

Human Interaction for Collaborative Semantic SLAM using Extended Reality
Semantic SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) systems enrich robot maps with structural and semantic information, enabling robots to operate more effectively in complex environments. However, these systems struggle in real-world scenarios with occlusions, incomplete data, or ambiguous geometries, as they cannot fully leverage the higher-level spatial and semantic knowledge humans naturally apply. We introduce HICS-SLAM, a Human-in-the-Loop semantic SLAM framework that uses a shared exte…

is AI real life
is it just fantasy
caught up in the hype
no escape from reality
#ai #llm #vibecoding

Motorisierte VR-Schuhe wollen Laufen in Virtual Reality natürlicher machen
Ein britisches Start-up hat eine Kickstarter-Kampagne für motorisierte VR-Schuhe erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Der Preis liegt jenseits der Tausend-Dollar-Marke.

Tonight I had a dream involving meeting a (recovered) fefe. Highly unusual, don't recall ever having dreams involving him before. In any case, let's hope for his best recovery and hopefully the dream will become reality at some point #fefe

Might be a good time to get caught up on this ARG if they are going to do more!
#criticalRole

To be clear, none of this is to say "this is definitely fake evidence." People talk in really strange ways when they're under stress. People are weirder than you think. Reality is weirder than you think. I don't think this is clearly "this is fabricated."
But I don't just trust it by default, especially when it lines up really well with what the administration wants.

This article does not in fact mention anything Reality Winner says she shares with Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/books/review/i-am-not-your-enemy-reality-winner.html

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▶️ On this, the world should be more like #sweden
▶️ What's up with #Nigeria? Are they living in some alternate reality?
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A fun way to celebrate the destruction of our shared objective reality.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/792427531321147392/ai-slop?source=share

Las Vegas Raiders Get Reality Check In Second Game: 3 Overreactions https://raiderramble.com/2025/09/17/las-vegas-raiders-get-reality-check-in-second-game-3-overreactions/

Do I at least get a poorly rushed conclusion with weird group sex at the end? https://cyberpunk.lol/@dirtwizard666/114888521066687558

Nudging the Somas: Exploring How Live-Configurable Mixed Reality Objects Shape Open-Ended Intercorporeal Movements
Botao Amber Hu, Yilan Elan Tao, Rem RunGu Lin, Mingze Chai, Yuemin Huang, Rakesh Patibanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14432

Nudging the Somas: Exploring How Live-Configurable Mixed Reality Objects Shape Open-Ended Intercorporeal Movements
Mixed Reality (MR) experiences increasingly explore how virtual elements can shape physical behaviour, yet how MR objects guide group movement remains underexplored. We address this gap by examining how virtual objects can nudge collective, co-located movement without relying on explicit instructions or choreography. We developed GravField, a co-located MR performance system where an "object jockey" live-configures virtual objects, springs, ropes, magnets, with real-time, parameterised "digital…

From @… over on BlueSky:
“God knows I hate saying the Mastodon crowd had it right, but those of us who are serious about living life in the reality lane are going to have to think long and hard about the resiliency of our information pipelines, at every stage.”

Viewfinder (Multi, XPd on PC) Inside a "holodeck" of some kind, use photos, paintings, screenshots, etc to change the world you're exploring, while looking for the much needed research to fix the outside world.
Finally something other than a sim game, lol. This is a really good puzzle adventure/walking.. sim 🤣 with a really neat hook. Any picture you can pick up (and later take) you can "plant" in the scene to alter the world, allowing you to solve the puzzles a…

Synthesizing Reality: Leveraging the Generative AI-Powered Platform Midjourney for Construction Worker Detection
Hongyang Zhao, Tianyu Liang, Sina Davari, Daeho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13221

Synthesizing Reality: Leveraging the Generative AI-Powered Platform Midjourney for Construction Worker Detection
While recent advancements in deep neural networks (DNNs) have substantially enhanced visual AI's capabilities, the challenge of inadequate data diversity and volume remains, particularly in construction domain. This study presents a novel image synthesis methodology tailored for construction worker detection, leveraging the generative-AI platform Midjourney. The approach entails generating a collection of 12,000 synthetic images by formulating 3000 different prompts, with an emphasis on image r…

Perspective-Aware AI in Extended Reality
Daniel Platnick, Matti Gruener, Marjan Alirezaie, Kent Larson, Dava J. Newman, Hossein Rahnama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11479

Perspective-Aware AI in Extended Reality
AI-enhanced Extended Reality (XR) aims to deliver adaptive, immersive experiences-yet current systems fall short due to shallow user modeling and limited cognitive context. We introduce Perspective-Aware AI in Extended Reality (PAiR), a foundational framework for integrating Perspective-Aware AI (PAi) with XR to enable interpretable, context-aware experiences grounded in user identity. PAi is built on Chronicles: reasoning-ready identity models learned from multimodal digital footprints that ca…

Two weeks of vacation comes to an end. Time to snap back to reality, responsibilities and horrible night shifts.

“If you looked into the resignation and bewilderment in his eyes as he scuttled off the stage at Elmendorf, you couldn’t help but wonder if he wasn’t starting to think it will be easier to return to the kind of low-level grift that is his main line of work”
Low energy' reality TV star Trump looks 'too old for the job': analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/too-old-for-the-job-trump-looked-like-a-fading-reality-tv-star-playing-at-being-president/

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting from Apple's design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams, as it targets late 2026 or early 2027 for its first devices (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-raids-apple-hardware-ta…

OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners
As OpenAI’s plans to make devices infused with its artificial intelligence get closer to reality, the company is increasingly plucking talent from Silicon Valley’s most successful device maker: Apple. In recent months, the startup behind ChatGPT has been raiding the ranks of Apple’s design, ...

Beyond Copenhagen: Following the Trail of Decoherence in Feynman's Light Microscope
Brian C. Odom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13385 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Beyond Copenhagen: Following the Trail of Decoherence in Feynman's Light Microscope
Feynman's light microscope invites us to reconsider what we thought we knew about quantum reality. Rather than invoking wavefunction collapse to predict the loss of fringes in a monitored interferometer, Feynman analyzes the problem in terms of a disturbance. This approach raises the question of whether the classical world, including its localized particles and definite measurement outcomes, might emerge as the universe evolves smoothly according to ß. Treating the particle and its environment…

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
Yanming Xiu, Joshua Chilukuri, Shunav Sen, Maria Gorlatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12498

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
As augmented reality (AR) applications increasingly require 3D content, generative pipelines driven by natural input such as speech offer an alternative to manual asset creation. In this work, we design a modular, edge-assisted architecture that supports both direct text-to-3D and text-image-to-3D pathways, enabling interchangeable integration of state-of-the-art components and systematic comparison of their performance in AR settings. Using this architecture, we implement and evaluate four rep…

Virtual Reality auf der Connect 2025: So sieht Metas neue VR-Strategie aus
Bei der Connect 2025 dreht sich fast alles um KI-Brillen und neue Interfaces. Virtual Reality bleibt zwar im Programm, aber der Fokus verlagert sich sichtbar.

CodeFuse-CR-Bench: A Comprehensiveness-aware Benchmark for End-to-End Code Review Evaluation in Python Projects
Hanyang Guo, Xunjin Zheng, Zihan Liao, Hang Yu, Peng DI, Ziyin Zhang, Hong-Ning Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14856

CodeFuse-CR-Bench: A Comprehensiveness-aware Benchmark for End-to-End Code Review Evaluation in Python Projects
Automated code review (CR) is a key application for Large Language Models (LLMs), but progress is hampered by a "reality gap": existing benchmarks evaluate models on isolated sub-tasks using simplified, context-poor data. This fails to reflect the holistic context-rich nature of real-world CR. To bridge this gap, we introduce CodeFuse-CR-Bench, the first comprehensiveness-aware benchmark for repository-level CR evaluation. CodeFuse-CR-Bench comprises 601 high-quality instances from 70 Python pr…

Wormholes: Myth or Reality? Prospects for Future Observations
Subenoy Chakraborty, Madhukrishna Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13715 https://arxiv.…

Wormholes: Myth or Reality? Prospects for Future Observations
Traversable wormholes (TWHs) remain one of the most intriguing predictions of General Relativity (GR), offering passage through space-time. However, their existence requires the violation of the null energy condition, making their detection a bit challenging. The essay aims at showing the new avenues probing the observational prospects of TWHs via quasinormal modes and grey body factors, the two fundamental aspects in wave dynamics. The role of QNMs in characterizing the ringdown phase of pertu…

Reclaiming Constitutional Authority of Algorithmic Power
Yiyang Mei, Michael J Broyde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11699 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11699

Reclaiming Constitutional Authority of Algorithmic Power
Whether and how to govern AI is no longer a question of technical regulation. It is a question of constitutional authority. Across jurisdictions, algorithmic systems now perform functions once reserved to public institutions: allocating welfare, determining legal status, mediating access to housing, employment, and healthcare. These are not merely administrative operations. They are acts of rule. Yet the dominant models of AI governance fail to confront this reality. The European approach cente…

‘Partygate,’ a Russian threat and reality TV: What hackers found in Boris Johnson leak
https://san.com/cc/partygate-a-russian-threat-and-reality-tv-what-hackers-found-in-boris-johnson-leak/

‘Partygate,’ a Russian threat and reality TV: What hackers found in Boris Johnson leak
Over 2,000 hacked files tied to ex-U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson have exposed daily diaries, notebook entries and private endeavors.

Chase Lucas Speaks Interception into Reality, Recaps Win vs. Raiders https://www.49ers.com/video/chase-lucas-speaks-interception-into-reality-recaps-win-vs-raiders

Worms trifft auf Mixed Reality: Taktikspiel "Table Troopers" ausprobiert
Table Troopers überträgt das Spielprinzip von Worms in die VR-Brille. Wir haben das brandneue deutsche Spiel auf Meta Quest ausprobiert.

The vOICe for Android v2.76 released. Added support for Android 16. Added an experimental AI compatibility mode for Google Gemini Live (hi-res color camera preview), toggled by fast-swiping right on The vOICe main screen on your smartphone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai…

The vOICe for Android - Apps on Google Play
Augmented Reality for the Blind: See with your Ears!

Bend It, Aim It, Tap It: Designing an On-Body Disambiguation Mechanism for Curve Selection in Mixed Reality
Xiang Li, Per Ola Kristensson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13748 https:…

Bend It, Aim It, Tap It: Designing an On-Body Disambiguation Mechanism for Curve Selection in Mixed Reality
Object selection in Mixed Reality (MR) becomes particularly challenging in dense or occluded environments, where traditional mid-air ray-casting often leads to ambiguity and reduced precision. We present two complementary techniques: (1) a real-time Bezier Curve selection paradigm guided by finger curvature, enabling expressive one-handed trajectories, and (2) an on-body disambiguation mechanism that projects the four nearest candidates onto the user's forearm via proximity-based mapping. Toget…

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Destruction of "Peas in a Pod?" A Candidate Multi-planet System Around the Nearby, Bright Star, HD208487
Rafael I. Rubenstein, James S. Jenkins, Pablo A. Pe\~na R., Carolina Charalambous, Mikko Tuomi, Douglas R. Alves, Jos\'e Vines, Mat\'ias R. D\'iaz, Suman Saha, Paul R. Butler, Jeffrey D. Crane, Steve Shectman, Johanna K. Teske, David Osip, Zahra Essack, Benjamin T. Montet, Adina D. Feinstein, Cristobal Petrovich

Destruction of "Peas in a Pod?" A Candidate Multi-planet System Around the Nearby, Bright Star, HD208487
We re-investigate the HD208487 system to test the reality of the proposed HD208487c world. We also search for additional companions using applied Bayesian statistics and 15+ years of new RV data from the HARPS and the PFS instruments that were taken post-discovery of HD208487b. The RV data was analyzed with GLS Periodograms, followed by Bayesian analysis using the EMPEROR code. We scrutinised various stellar activity indices to search for any corresponding peaks in the power spectra, correlat…

Though we often crave a silver bullet solution, in reality, meaningful change often comes from many small efforts working in harmony, just like it happens in climate activism. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/silver-buckshot

Silver Buckshot
Why complex problems need plural solutions

Cold Weather Charging of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Real-World Lessons from the Meshtastic Community
https://yycmesh.com/2025/04/19/cold-weather-charging-of-lithium-ion-batteries-real-world-lessons-from-th…

'Rhetoric often clashes with reality' — Trump's latest Russia sanctions threats met with skepticism: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/08/rhetoric-often-clashes-with-reality.html

#NowPlaying 'Nightmare Reality', the rager of a noisy, raw crust/d-beat tape from 2023 by Wellington, New Zealand's PUTRID FUTURE. Love stuff like this. Riffy, feedbacky, rough around the edges.
https://razoredraw…

Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-developin…

ByteDance Developing Mixed Reality Goggles in Challenge to Meta
Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device that resembles a pair of goggles, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. It’s following in the footsteps of Meta Platforms, which has been ...

Behavioral and Symbolic Fillers as Delay Mitigation for Embodied Conversational Agents in Virtual Reality
Denmar Mojan Gonzales, Snehanjali Kalamkar, Sophie J\"org, Jens Grubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11781

Behavioral and Symbolic Fillers as Delay Mitigation for Embodied Conversational Agents in Virtual Reality
When communicating with embodied conversational agents (ECAs) in virtual reality, there might be delays in the responses of the agents lasting several seconds, for example, due to more extensive computations of the answers when large language models are used. Such delays might lead to unnatural or frustrating interactions. In this paper, we investigate filler types to mitigate these effects and lead to a more positive experience and perception of the agent. In a within-subject study, we asked 2…

SPATIALGEN: Layout-guided 3D Indoor Scene Generation
Chuan Fang, Heng Li, Yixun Liang, Jia Zheng, Yongsen Mao, Yuan Liu, Rui Tang, Zihan Zhou, Ping Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14981

SPATIALGEN: Layout-guided 3D Indoor Scene Generation
Creating high-fidelity 3D models of indoor environments is essential for applications in design, virtual reality, and robotics. However, manual 3D modeling remains time-consuming and labor-intensive. While recent advances in generative AI have enabled automated scene synthesis, existing methods often face challenges in balancing visual quality, diversity, semantic consistency, and user control. A major bottleneck is the lack of a large-scale, high-quality dataset tailored to this task. To addre…

Evil Vizier: Vulnerabilities of LLM-Integrated XR Systems
Yicheng Zhang, Zijian Huang, Sophie Chen, Erfan Shayegani, Jiasi Chen, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15213

Evil Vizier: Vulnerabilities of LLM-Integrated XR Systems
Extended reality (XR) applications increasingly integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance user experience, scene understanding, and even generate executable XR content, and are often called "AI glasses". Despite these potential benefits, the integrated XR-LLM pipeline makes XR applications vulnerable to new forms of attacks. In this paper, we analyze LLM-Integated XR systems in the literature and in practice and categorize them along different dimensions from a systems perspective. Buil…

Interference in Quantum Mechanics
Debadrita Ghosh, Urbasi Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12940

Interference in Quantum Mechanics
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard P. Feynman once remarked ``We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery. We cannot make the mystery go away by ``explaining'' how it works. We will just tell you how it works. In telling you how it works, we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics'' [Feynman RP, Leight…

Ashes or Breath: Exploring Moral Dilemmas of Life and Cultural Legacy through Mixed Reality Gaming
Black Sun, Ge Kacy Fu, Shichao Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13074 https://…

Ashes or Breath: Exploring Moral Dilemmas of Life and Cultural Legacy through Mixed Reality Gaming
Traditional approaches to teaching moral dilemmas often rely on abstract, disembodied scenarios that limit emotional engagement and reflective depth. To address this gap, we developed \textit{Ashes or Breath}, a Mixed Reality game delivered via head-mounted displays(MR-HMDs). This places players in an ethical crisis: they must save a living cat or a priceless cultural artifact during a museum fire. Designed through an iterative, values-centered process, the experience leverages embodied interac…

Investigating VR Accessibility Reviews for Users with Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis
Yi Wang, Chetan Arora, Xiao Liu, Thuong Hoang, ZHengxin Zhang, Henry Been Lirn Duh, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13051

Investigating VR Accessibility Reviews for Users with Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis
Accessibility reviews provide valuable insights into both the limitations and benefits experienced by users with disabilities when using virtual reality (VR) applications. However, a comprehensive investigation into VR accessibility for users with disabilities is still lacking. To fill this gap, this study analyzes user reviews from the Meta and Steam stores of VR apps, focusing on the reported issues affecting users with disabilities. We applied selection criteria to 1,367,419 reviews from the…

Breaking Down Geno Smith’s Next Move — and Tom Brady’s NFL Reality Check https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-tom-bradypete-carroll-washington-commanders

Modular SAIL: dream or reality?
Petr Kourzanov, Anmol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12471

Modular SAIL: dream or reality?
In order to truly benefit from RISC-V ISA modularity, the community has to address the issue of compositionality, going beyond modules at the specification level covering larger subsets of the RISC-V development flow including emulation, simulation and verification. In this paper we introduce modular SAIL, an experiment to inject compositionality into the SAIL-RISCV golden model. We show that it is, in principle, not difficult to adapt the SAIL-RISCV flow (and ideally the SAIL compiler itself) …

Magic Leap: Wie der Traum von der Wunder-AR-Brille platzte
Zwischen Vision, Hype und Restrukturierung: Wie ein Augmented-Reality-Start-up mit Milliardenkapital beinahe kollabierte und heute neue Wege geht.
…

Understanding Physical Therapy Challenges for Older Adults through Mixed Reality
Jade Kandel, Sriya Kasumarthi, Danielle Szafir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14514 https://

Understanding Physical Therapy Challenges for Older Adults through Mixed Reality
Physical therapy (PT) is crucial in helping older adults manage chronic conditions and weakening muscles, but older adults face increasing challenges that can impact their PT experience, including increased fatigue, memory loss, and mobility and travel constraints. While current technology attempts to facilitate remote care, they have limitations and are used in-practice infrequently. Mixed reality (MR) technology shows promise for addressing these challenges by creating immersive, context-awar…

Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robot Teleoperation for Collecting User Demonstrations
Shiqi Gong, Sebastian Zudaire, Chi Zhang, Zhen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11783 https://

Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robot Teleoperation for Collecting User Demonstrations
Traditional industrial robot programming is often complex and time-consuming, typically requiring weeks or even months of effort from expert programmers. Although Programming by Demonstration (PbD) offers a more accessible alternative, intuitive interfaces for robot control and demonstration collection remain challenging. To address this, we propose an Augmented Reality (AR)-enhanced robot teleoperation system that integrates AR-based control with spatial point cloud rendering, enabling intuiti…

🕶️ Extended Reality Technologies: Transforming the Future of Crime Scene Investigation
#crime

Their parents are crooks pardoned by Trump, fwiw...
Grayson and Savannah Chrisley tell University of Alabama students Charlie Kirk’s murder was a ‘religious assassination’ - al.com
https://www.al.com/politics/2025/09/reality-tv-stars-tell-university-of-alabama-students-charlie-kirks-murder-was-a-religious-assassination.html

ROVR-Open-Dataset: A Large-Scale Depth Dataset for Autonomous Driving
Xianda Guo, Ruijun Zhang, Yiqun Duan, Ruilin Wang, Keyuan Zhou, Wenzhao Zheng, Wenke Huang, Gangwei Xu, Mike Horton, Yuan Si, Hao Zhao, Long Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13977

ROVR-Open-Dataset: A Large-Scale Depth Dataset for Autonomous Driving
Depth estimation is a fundamental task for 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. Existing depth datasets, such as KITTI, nuScenes, and DDAD, have advanced the field but suffer from limitations in diversity and scalability. As benchmark performance on these datasets approaches saturation, there is an increasing need for a new generation of large-scale, diverse, and cost-efficient datasets to support the era of foundation models and multi-modal learning. T…

FacialMotionID: Identifying Users of Mixed Reality Headsets using Abstract Facial Motion Representations
Adriano Castro, Simon Hanisch, Matin Fallahi, Thorsten Strufe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11138

FacialMotionID: Identifying Users of Mixed Reality Headsets using Abstract Facial Motion Representations
Facial motion capture in mixed reality headsets enables real-time avatar animation, allowing users to convey non-verbal cues during virtual interactions. However, as facial motion data constitutes a behavioral biometric, its use raises novel privacy concerns. With mixed reality systems becoming more immersive and widespread, understanding whether face motion data can lead to user identification or inference of sensitive attributes is increasingly important. To address this, we conducted a stu…

Outpace Reality: A Novel Augmented-Walking Technique for Virtual Reality Games
Sebastian Cmentowski, Fabian Kievelitz, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11314 https:…

Outpace Reality: A Novel Augmented-Walking Technique for Virtual Reality Games
The size of most virtual environments exceeds the tracking space available for physical walking. One solution to this disparity is to extend the available walking range by augmenting users' actual movements. However, the resulting increase in visual flow can easily cause cybersickness. Therefore, we present a novel augmented-walking approach for virtual reality games. Our core concept is a virtual tunnel that spans the entire travel distance when viewed from the outside. However, its interior i…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.SE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/new
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- AUTOVR: Automated UI Exploration for Detecting Sensitive Data Flow Exposures in Virtual Reality Apps
John Y. Kim, Chaoshun Zuo, Yanjie Zhao, Zhiqiang Lin

Raiders Dealt Harsh Reality Regarding WR Room https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/wide-receivers-reality-espn/?adt_ei=[email]

Out-of-Sight Trajectories: Tracking, Fusion, and Prediction
Haichao Zhang, Yi Xu, Yun Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15219 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15219

Out-of-Sight Trajectories: Tracking, Fusion, and Prediction
Trajectory prediction is a critical task in computer vision and autonomous systems, playing a key role in autonomous driving, robotics, surveillance, and virtual reality. Existing methods often rely on complete and noise-free observational data, overlooking the challenges associated with out-of-sight objects and the inherent noise in sensor data caused by limited camera coverage, obstructions, and the absence of ground truth for denoised trajectories. These limitations pose safety risks and hin…

Diese 10 VR-Spiele zeigen, wie vielfältig Virtual Reality sein kann
Der "UploadVR Showcase Summer 2025" hatte über 50 VR-Spiele im Gepäck. Wir stellen zehn spannende Titel vor, die für Abwechslung in der VR-Brille sorgen.

Hands-on with Meta Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band: small display adds new functionality, useful real-time translation, Neural Band seems the ideal input method (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/hands-on-meta-ray-b…

Hands-on: Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band Offer a Glimpse of Future AR Glasses
The newly announced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and the ‘Neural Band’ input device that comes with them, are still far from proper augmented reality. But Meta has made several clever design choices that will pay dividends once their true AR glasses are ready for the masses. The Ray-Ban Display glasses are a new category for …

Samsung's bold move: Standalone smart glasses set to launch next year https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/samsung-rumored-standalone-smart-glasses-next-year-compete-meta-google I *love* st…

Samsung's bold move: Standalone smart glasses set to launch next year
This is reportedly to help Samsung solidify itself as a known smart glasses-maker, but it's still looking to collaborate with Google.

IntelliCap: Intelligent Guidance for Consistent View Sampling
Ayaka Yasunaga, Hideo Saito, Dieter Schmalstieg, Shohei Mori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13043 https://

IntelliCap: Intelligent Guidance for Consistent View Sampling
Novel view synthesis from images, for example, with 3D Gaussian splatting, has made great progress. Rendering fidelity and speed are now ready even for demanding virtual reality applications. However, the problem of assisting humans in collecting the input images for these rendering algorithms has received much less attention. High-quality view synthesis requires uniform and dense view sampling. Unfortunately, these requirements are not easily addressed by human camera operators, who are in a h…

Tanzlehrerin aus der VR-Brille: Wenn Mixed Reality plötzlich Sinn ergibt
Mixed Reality kann mehr als bloße Spielerei sein. Wir haben "Dance Guru" ausprobiert und mit einer virtuellen Partnerin das Tanzbein geschwungen.

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Andrey Krekhov, Sebastian Cmentowski, Katharina Emmerich, Maic Masuch, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11304

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Virtual reality games are often centered around our feeling of "being there". That presence can be significantly enhanced by supporting physical walking. Although modern virtual reality systems enable room-scale motions, the size of our living rooms is not enough to explore vast virtual environments. Developers bypass that limitation by adding virtual navigation such as teleportation. Although such techniques are intended (or designed) to extend but not replace natural walking, what we often ob…

At the Speed of the Heart: Evaluating Physiologically-Adaptive Visualizations for Supporting Engagement in Biking Exergaming in Virtual Reality
Oliver Hein, Sandra Wackerl, Changkun Ou, Florian Alt, Francesco Chiossi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13095

At the Speed of the Heart: Evaluating Physiologically-Adaptive Visualizations for Supporting Engagement in Biking Exergaming in Virtual Reality
Many exergames face challenges in keeping users within safe and effective intensity levels during exercise. Meanwhile, although wearable devices continuously collect physiological data, this information is seldom leveraged for real-time adaptation or to encourage user reflection. We designed and evaluated a VR cycling simulator that dynamically adapts based on users' heart rate zones. First, we conducted a user study (N=50) comparing eight visualization designs to enhance engagement and exertio…

5 positions where Raiders latest unofficial depth chart gets it wrong https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/19/raiders-unofficial-depth-chart-preseason-week-3-positi…

"Lasertag" überall und jederzeit: Mixed Reality eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten
Mit MR-Brillen wird spontane Lasertag-Action in Innenräumen und teils auch im Freien möglich. Ein innovatives Spiel zeigt, wie einfach das sein kann.

Virtual Reality in den 90ern: Wie in Spielhallen der erste VR-Hype entstand
Vor Oculus & Co. kam Virtuality: Wie ein britisches Start-up Virtual Reality populär machte und an Technik, Heimkonsolen und Zeitgeist scheiterte.

Towards Embodied Conversational Agents for Reducing Oral Exam Anxiety in Extended Reality
Jens Grubert, Yvonne Sedelmaier, Dieter Landes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11412 https:/…

Towards Embodied Conversational Agents for Reducing Oral Exam Anxiety in Extended Reality
Oral examinations are a prevalent but psychologically demanding form of assessment in higher education. Many students experience intense anxiety, which can impair cognitive performance and hinder academic success. This position paper explores the potential of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) in extended reality (XR) environments to support students preparing for oral exams. We propose a system concept that integrates photorealistic ECAs with real-time capable large language models (LLMs) t…

Meta's Reality Labs posts Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $370M, vs. $381M est., and operating loss of $4.53B, vs. $4.99B est.; Reality Labs has lost $70B since 2020 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/metas-reality-labs-second-quarter-2025.html

Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.53 billion loss in second quarter
Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.53 billion loss in second quarter

Varjo zeigt Kampfjet-Simulator mit Mixed-Reality-Cockpit
Der finnische VR-Brillenhersteller Varjo wirbt mit einem aufwendigen Mixed-Reality-Flugsimulator um Kunden aus dem Verteidigungssektor.
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GhostObjects: Instructing Robots by Manipulating Spatially Aligned Virtual Twins in Augmented Reality
Lauren W. Wang, Parastoo Abtahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11022 https://…

GhostObjects: Instructing Robots by Manipulating Spatially Aligned Virtual Twins in Augmented Reality
Robots are increasingly capable of autonomous operations, yet human interaction remains essential for issuing personalized instructions. Instead of directly controlling robots through Programming by Demonstration (PbD) or teleoperation, we propose giving instructions by interacting with GhostObjects-world-aligned, life-size virtual twins of physical objects-in augmented reality (AR). By direct manipulation of GhostObjects, users can precisely specify physical goals and spatial parameters, with …

RemVerse: Supporting Reminiscence Activities for Older Adults through AI-Assisted Virtual Reality
Ruohao Li, Jiawei Li, Jia Sun, Zhiqing Wu, Zisu Li, Ziyan Wang, Ge Lin Kan, Mingming Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13247

RemVerse: Supporting Reminiscence Activities for Older Adults through AI-Assisted Virtual Reality
Reminiscence activities, which involve recalling and sharing past experiences, have proven beneficial for improving cognitive function, mood, and overall well-being. However, urbanization has led to the disappearance of familiar environments, removing visual and audio cues for effective reminiscence. While old photos can serve as visual cues to aid reminiscence, it is challenging for people to reconstruct the reminisced content and environment that are not in the photos. Virtual reality (VR) an…

Warum Augmented Reality auf der Stelle tritt
Was hält Augmented Reality zurück? Der AR-Pionier Kharis O'Connell hat der Technologie den Rücken gekehrt und spricht offen über seine Desillusion.
https://www…

Virtual Reality für Senioren: Wie virtuelle Reisen Erinnerungen zurückbringen
Ein junges deutsches Unternehmen zeigt, wie Virtual Reality Nähe, Erinnerung und Teilhabe für ältere Menschen schaffen kann.

Brettspiele in Virtual Reality: All on Board kündigt neue Lizenztitel an
All on Board erweitert seine VR-Brettspielplattform um "Aye, Dark Overlord!" und neue Social-Features für einfachere Spielplanung und bessere Lerntools.

Gesture Evaluation in Virtual Reality
Axel Wiebe Werner, Jonas Beskow, Anna Deichler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12816 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12816

Gesture Evaluation in Virtual Reality
Gestures are central to human communication, enriching interactions through non-verbal expression. Virtual avatars increasingly use AI-generated gestures to enhance life-likeness, yet evaluations have largely been confined to 2D. Virtual Reality (VR) provides an immersive alternative that may affect how gestures are perceived. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of computer-generated gestures in VR and 2D, examining three models from the 2023 GENEA Challenge. Results show that gestures…

Duell der Leichtgewichte: Meta und ByteDance entwickeln ultrakompakte VR-Brillen
Meta und Pico arbeiten offenbar an Mixed-Reality-Brillen, die deutlich kompakter und leichter ausfallen sollen als Meta Quest und Apple Vision Pro.

ReachVox: Clutter-free Reachability Visualization for Robot Motion Planning in Virtual Reality
Steffen Hauck, Diar Abdlkarim, John Dudley, Per Ola Kristensson, Eyal Ofek, Jens Grubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11426

ReachVox: Clutter-free Reachability Visualization for Robot Motion Planning in Virtual Reality
Human-Robot-Collaboration can enhance workflows by leveraging the mutual strengths of human operators and robots. Planning and understanding robot movements remain major challenges in this domain. This problem is prevalent in dynamic environments that might need constant robot motion path adaptation. In this paper, we investigate whether a minimalistic encoding of the reachability of a point near an object of interest, which we call ReachVox, can aid the collaboration between a remote operator …

GIST: Group Interaction Sensing Toolkit for Mixed Reality
Diana Romero, Yasra Chandio, Fatima Anwar, Salma Elmalaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11797 https:…

GIST: Group Interaction Sensing Toolkit for Mixed Reality
Understanding how teams coordinate, share work, and negotiate roles in immersive environments is critical for designing effective mixed-reality (MR) applications that support real-time collaboration. However, existing methods either rely on external cameras and offline annotation or focus narrowly on single modalities, limiting their validity and applicability. To address this, we present a novel group interaction sensing toolkit (GIST), a deployable system that passively captures multi-modal i…

Chameleon: A Surface-Anchored Smartphone AR Prototype with Visually Blended Mobile Display
Seungwon Yang, Suwon Yoon, Jeongwon Choi, Inseok Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14643

Chameleon: A Surface-Anchored Smartphone AR Prototype with Visually Blended Mobile Display
Augmented reality (AR) is often realized through head-mounted displays, offering immersive but egocentric experiences. While smartphone-based AR is more accessible, it remains limited to handheld, single-user interaction. We introduce Chameleon, a prototype AR system that transforms smartphones into surface-anchored displays for co-located use. When placed flat, the phone creates a transparency illusion and anchors digital content visible to multiple users. Chameleon supports natural reposition…

Large Language Models as Visualization Agents for Immersive Binary Reverse Engineering
Dennis Brown, Samuel Mulder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13413 https://

Large Language Models as Visualization Agents for Immersive Binary Reverse Engineering
Immersive virtual reality (VR) offers affordances that may reduce cognitive complexity in binary reverse engineering (RE), enabling embodied and external cognition to augment the RE process through enhancing memory, hypothesis testing, and visual organization. In prior work, we applied a cognitive systems engineering approach to identify an initial set of affordances and implemented a VR environment to support RE through spatial persistence and interactivity. In this work, we extend that platfo…

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XR-First Design for Productivity: A Conceptual Framework for Enabling Efficient Task Switching in XR
Matt Gottsacker, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Gerd Bruder, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Gregory F. Welch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11778

XR-First Design for Productivity: A Conceptual Framework for Enabling Efficient Task Switching in XR
A core component of completing tasks efficiently in computer-supported knowledge work is the ability for users to rapidly switch their focus (and interaction) across different applications using various shortcuts and gestures. This feature set has been explored in research, and several modern consumer extended reality (XR) headsets now support loading multiple applications windows at once. However, many XR applications that are useful for knowledge work involve rich spatial information, which w…

Symptome wie bei Trunkenheit: Forscher untersuchen Effekte von Mixed Reality
Mixed-Reality-Headsets wie Meta Quest 3 und Apple Vision Pro zeigen die Welt als Videofeed. Welche Auswirkungen das haben kann, untersucht eine Studie.

VR- und KI-Brillen sind nur Brücken: Der heimliche Star heißt Augmented Reality
Während VR lange Zeit lautstark um Aufmerksamkeit buhlte, schleicht sich AR in unser Leben, um zu bleiben – auf dem Rücken von Mixed Reality und Smart Glasses.

Beyond the Portal: Enhancing Recognition in Virtual Reality Through Multisensory Cues
Siyeon Bak, Dongyun Han, Inho Jo, Sun-Jeong Kim, Isaac Cho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11347

Beyond the Portal: Enhancing Recognition in Virtual Reality Through Multisensory Cues
While Virtual Reality (VR) systems have become increasingly immersive, they still rely predominantly on visual input, which can constrain perceptual performance when visual information is limited. Incorporating additional sensory modalities, such as sound and scent, offers a promising strategy to enhance user experience and overcome these limitations. This paper investigates the contribution of auditory and olfactory cues in supporting perception within the portal metaphor, a VR technique that …

Colour Perception in Immersive Virtual Reality: Emotional and Physiological Responses to Fifteen Munsell Hues
Francesco Febbraio, Simona Collina, Christina Lepida, Panagiotis Kourtesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11644

Colour Perception in Immersive Virtual Reality: Emotional and Physiological Responses to Fifteen Munsell Hues
Colour is a fundamental determinant of affective experience in immersive virtual reality (VR), yet the emotional and physiological impact of individual hues remains poorly characterised. This study investigated how fifteen calibrated Munsell hues influence subjective and autonomic responses when presented in immersive VR. Thirty-six adults (18-45 years) viewed each hue in a within-subject design while pupil diameter and skin conductance were recorded continuously, and self-reported emotions wer…

Unbounded: Object-Boundary Interactions in Mixed Reality
Zhuoyue Lyu, Per Ola Kristensson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10750 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10750…

Unbounded: Object-Boundary Interactions in Mixed Reality
Boundaries such as walls, windows, and doors are ubiquitous in the physical world, yet their potential in Mixed Reality (MR) remains underexplored. We present Unbounded, a Research through Design inquiry into Object-Boundary Interactions (OBIs). Building on prior work, we articulate a design space aimed at providing a shared language for OBIs. To demonstrate its potential, we design and implement eight examples across productivity and art exploration scenarios, showcasing how boundaries can enr…

An Exploratory Study on AI-driven Visualisation Techniques on Decision Making in Extended Reality
Ze Dong, Binyang Han, Jingjing Zhang, Ruoyu Wen, Barrett Ens, Adrian Clark, Tham Piumsomboon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10981

An Exploratory Study on AI-driven Visualisation Techniques on Decision Making in Extended Reality
The integration of extended reality (XR) with artificial intelligence (AI) introduces a new paradigm for user interaction, enabling AI to perceive user intent, stimulate the senses, and influence decision-making. We explored the impact of four AI-driven visualisation techniques -- `Inform,' `Nudge,' `Recommend,' and `Instruct' -- on user decision-making in XR using the Meta Quest Pro. To test these techniques, we used a pre-recorded 360-degree video of a supermarket, overlaying each technique t…