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My Bartlett School of Architecture colleague Nina Vollenbroker is organising a session on 'Environments of Disability' at this year's AHRA conference in Liverpool (22-24 Nov 2025), based on the premise that architectural processes are central producers of disability
Abstracts are due 2nd June, call for papers and more info:

“Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion” A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Orion Klautau, Tohoku University https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070533/another-shotoku-history-and-mythmaking…

Rhodes Wurli Recreates Classic Wurlitzer 200A Electric Piano Sound https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/06/10/…

Rhodes Wurli Recreates Classic Wurlitzer 200A Electric Piano Sound
Rhodes Music has introduced Rhodes Wurli, a new virtual instrument based on the classic Wurlitzer 200A electric piano, for both MacOS & Windows. 

A Unified Framework for Probabilistic Dynamic-, Trajectory- and Vision-based Virtual Fixtures
Maximilian M\"uhlbauer, Freek Stulp, Sylvain Calinon, Alin Albu-Sch\"affer, Jo\~ao Silv\'erio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10239

A Unified Framework for Probabilistic Dynamic-, Trajectory- and Vision-based Virtual Fixtures
Probabilistic Virtual Fixtures (VFs) enable the adaptive selection of the most suitable haptic feedback for each phase of a task, based on learned or perceived uncertainty. While keeping the human in the loop remains essential, for instance, to ensure high precision, partial automation of certain task phases is critical for productivity. We present a unified framework for probabilistic VFs that seamlessly switches between manual fixtures, semi-automated fixtures (with the human handling precise…

A short way of counting maps to hypersurfaces in Grassmannians
Alina Marian, Shubham Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10593 https://a…

A short way of counting maps to hypersurfaces in Grassmannians
Using a Quot scheme compactification, we calculate the virtual count of maps of degree $d$ from a smooth projective curve of genus $g$ to a hypersurface in a Grassmannian, sending specified points of the curve to special Schubert subvarieties restricted to the hypersurface. We study the question of whether this virtual count is in fact enumerative under suitable conditions on the hypersurface, in the regime when the map degree $d$ is large.

Scalable Software Testing in Fast Virtual Platforms: Leveraging SystemC, QEMU and Containerization
Lukas J\"unger, Jan Henrik Weinstock, Tim Kraus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10624

Scalable Software Testing in Fast Virtual Platforms: Leveraging SystemC, QEMU and Containerization
The ever-increasing complexity of HW/SW systems presents a persistent challenge, particularly in safety-critical domains like automotive, where extensive testing is imperative. However, the availability of hardware often lags behind, hindering early-stage software development. To address this, Virtual Platforms (VPs) based on the SystemC TLM-2.0 standard have emerged as a pivotal solution, enabling pre-silicon execution and testing of unmodified target software. In this study, we propose an app…

Deployment of Containerized Simulations in an API-Driven Distributed Infrastructure
Tim Kraus, Axel Sauer, Ingo Feldner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10642 ht…

Deployment of Containerized Simulations in an API-Driven Distributed Infrastructure
The increasingly dynamic market for embedded systems makes virtual prototypes an indispensable tool for hardware/software codesign. The broad acceptance of the methodology has led to a diverse range of solutions: from open-source, pure console-based simulators to highly capable commercial simulation tools. In this work we present SUNRISE, an infrastructure to provide users a unified approach to utilizing virtual prototyping solutions, facilitate access to various simulation technologies and boo…

InstaInpaint: Instant 3D-Scene Inpainting with Masked Large Reconstruction Model
Junqi You, Chieh Hubert Lin, Weijie Lyu, Zhengbo Zhang, Ming-Hsuan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10980

InstaInpaint: Instant 3D-Scene Inpainting with Masked Large Reconstruction Model
Recent advances in 3D scene reconstruction enable real-time viewing in virtual and augmented reality. To support interactive operations for better immersiveness, such as moving or editing objects, 3D scene inpainting methods are proposed to repair or complete the altered geometry. However, current approaches rely on lengthy and computationally intensive optimization, making them impractical for real-time or online applications. We propose InstaInpaint, a reference-based feed-forward framework t…

Low-Barrier Dataset Collection with Real Human Body for Interactive Per-Garment Virtual Try-On
Zaiqiang Wu, Yechen Li, Jingyuan Liu, Yuki Shibata, Takayuki Hori, I-Chao Shen, Takeo Igarashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10468

Low-Barrier Dataset Collection with Real Human Body for Interactive Per-Garment Virtual Try-On
Existing image-based virtual try-on methods are often limited to the front view and lack real-time performance. While per-garment virtual try-on methods have tackled these issues by capturing per-garment datasets and training per-garment neural networks, they still encounter practical limitations: (1) the robotic mannequin used to capture per-garment datasets is prohibitively expensive for widespread adoption and fails to accurately replicate natural human body deformation; (2) the synthesized …

Thief of Truth: VR comics about the relationship between AI and humans
Joonhyung Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10012 https://arxiv.o…

Thief of Truth: VR comics about the relationship between AI and humans
Thief of Truth is a first-person perspective Virtual Reality (VR) comic that explores the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). The work tells the story of a mind-uploaded human being reborn as a new subject while interacting with an AI that is looking for the meaning of life. In order to experiment with the expandability of VR comics, the work was produced by focusing on three problems. First, the comic is designed using the viewing control effect of VR. Second, through…

Real-Time Confidence Detection through Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
Tanjil Hasan Sakib, Samia Jahan Mojumder, Rajan Das Gupta, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09153

Real-Time Confidence Detection through Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
Real-time face orientation recognition is a cutting-edge technology meant to track and analyze facial movements in virtual environments such as online interviews, remote meetings, and virtual classrooms. As the demand for virtual interactions grows, it becomes increasingly important to measure participant engagement, attention, and overall interaction. This research presents a novel solution that leverages the Media Pipe Face Mesh framework to identify facial landmarks and extract geometric dat…

Threshold resummation for $W$-boson pair production at NNLO NNLL
Pulak Banerjee, Chinmoy Dey, M. C. Kumar, Vaibhav Pandey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10837 …

Threshold resummation for $W$-boson pair production at NNLO+NNLL
We present results for threshold resummation of the invariant mass distribution, for on-shell production of a pair of $W$-bosons at next-to-next-to-leading order + next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLO+NNLL) accuracy in QCD. Owing to its sensitivity to the self-interactions between gauge bosons, this process is important to investigate at the energies of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We achieve this resummation by exploiting the factorization properties of the soft and virtual parts of t…

The ATLAS Virtual Research Assistant
H. F. Stevance, K. W. Smith, S. J. Smartt, S. J. Roberts, N. Erasmus, D. R. Young, A. Clocchiatti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09778

The ATLAS Virtual Research Assistant
We present the Virtual Research Assistant (VRA) of the ATLAS sky survey which performs preliminary eyeballing on our clean transient data stream. The VRA uses Histogram Based Gradient Boosted Decision Tree Classifiers trained on real data to score incoming alerts on two axes: "Real" and "Galactic". The alerts are then ranked using a geometric distance such that the most "Real" and "Extra-galactic" receive high scores; the scores are updated when new light curve data is obtained on subsequent vi…

Pope Leo plans to give a virtual address in his hometown of Chicago – at the same time as Trump’s military parade | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pope-leo-address-chicago-trump-parade-b2768103.html

Asymptotic and cohomological dimension of surface braid groups and poly-surface groups
Porfirio L. Le\'on \'Alvarez, Israel Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10706

Asymptotic and cohomological dimension of surface braid groups and poly-surface groups
In this paper we compute the asymptotic dimension of all surface braid groups, including those associated to non-orientable and infinite-type surfaces, as well as for torsion-free surface groups that are poly-finitely generated. Moreover, we show that in these two classes of groups, the virtual cohomological dimension and the asymptotic dimension coincide. For poly-finitely generated surface groups and braid groups of finite-type surfaces, these results are based on showing that they are virtua…

Heavy Particle Motion in Rotational Vortices
Orr Avni, Alok Kumar, Yuval Dagan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09821 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Heavy Particle Motion in Rotational Vortices
This study examines the motion of spherical inertial particles in a three-dimensional rotating cylindrical vortex - a simplified model of geophysical flow structures such as oceanic eddies. The analytical vortex formulation enables the isolation of the key mechanisms that govern particle transport in rotating flows. Using Lagrangian particle tracking simulations, we investigate the influence of drag, buoyancy, virtual mass, Coriolis, and Magnus lift forces across a range of particle sizes, dens…

Worldline deconfinement and emergent long-range interaction in entanglement Hamiltonian and entanglement spectrum
Zenan Liu, Zhe Wang, Dao-Xin Yao, Zheng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10078

Worldline deconfinement and emergent long-range interaction in entanglement Hamiltonian and entanglement spectrum
When a system exhibits a bulk gap but gapless edge states (e.g., a symmetry-protected topological phase), the entanglement spectrum (ES) resembles the energy spectrum on virtual edge, that is the Li-Haldane conjecture. In this way, the ES plays an important probe to detect the topological phases according to this bulk-edge correspondence. When a system is fully gapped, both in bulk and edge, the ES still remains similar to the virtual edge spectrum which can be explained by the recently propose…

Banjo Virtual Instrument Comparison Review
#Banjo #VI #MusicianTips

Banjo Virtual Instrument Comparison Review
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

“Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion” A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Orion Klautau, Tohoku University
https://ift.tt/w5x1ije
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
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The Virtual CEO
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Are We Generalizing from the Exception? An In-the-Wild Study on Group-Sensitive Conversation Design in Human-Agent Interactions
Ana M\"uller, Sabina Jeschke, Anja Richert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10462

Are We Generalizing from the Exception? An In-the-Wild Study on Group-Sensitive Conversation Design in Human-Agent Interactions
This paper investigates the impact of a group-adaptive conversation design in two socially interactive agents (SIAs) through two real-world studies. Both SIAs - Furhat, a social robot, and MetaHuman, a virtual agent - were equipped with a conversational artificial intelligence (CAI) backend combining hybrid retrieval and generative models. The studies were carried out in an in-the-wild setting with a total of $N = 188$ participants who interacted with the SIAs - in dyads, triads or larger group…

Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/omada-shares-open-at-23-in-na…

Omada shares pop 42% in Nasdaq debut after health tech company's IPO
Omada Health became the latest tech company to hit the Nasdaq on Friday, as the IPO market picks up steam.

from my link log —
Wasm SpecTec has been adopted.
https://webassembly.org/news/2025-03-27-spectec/
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SpecTec has been adopted - WebAssembly
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.

Hello all - for anyone who's interested, we'll be having our June monthly #libre | Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) catchup tomorrow (Tues) evening, at 20:00 NZST. We meet at

Neue VR-Spiele im Juni 2025: "Zombie Army VR"
Im Juni bringt Rebellion mit "Zombie Army VR" eine altbekannte Reihe in die Virtual Reality. Zusätzlich erscheinen "Cave Crave" und "Maestro".

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Bioptic B1: A Target-Agnostic Potency-Based Small Molecules Search Engine
Recent successes in virtual screening have been made possible by large models and extensive chemical libraries. However, combining these elements is challenging: the larger the model, the more expensive it is to run, making ultra-large libraries unfeasible. To address this, we developed a target-agnostic, efficacy-based molecule search model, which allows us to find structurally dissimilar molecules with similar biological activities. We used the best practices to design fast retrieval system, …

Polarized Element-pair Code Based FFMA over a Gaussian Multiple-access Channel
Zhang-li-han Liu, Qi-yue Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06796 https://…

Polarized Element-pair Code Based FFMA over a Gaussian Multiple-access Channel
This paper presents polarized element-pair (EP) codes for polarization-adjusted finite-field multiple-access (PA-FFMA) systems. The core innovation of FFMA systems lies in their unique processing order that exchanges the conventional sequence of channel coding and multiplexing operations, effectively solving the multiuser finite-blocklength (FBL) problem while enhancing error performance. In this architecture, EPs serve as virtual resources for user separation, where different EP codes provide …

Patterns of Patterns III
Joseph Corneli, Charles J. Danoff, Raymond S. Puzio, Sridevi Ayloo, Serge Belich, Mary Tedeschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09696 h…

Patterns of Patterns III
Building on earlier installments, this paper re-examines the PLACARD pattern. We report on a series of workshops where PLACARD was used to scaffold collaborative reflection, speculative inquiry, and stimulate design pattern generation. These accounts are enriched by a comparison case: virtual workshops carried out with simple AI-based chatbots. We discuss limitations and lessons learned from both the human and multi-agent settings. We conclude by outlining a future development strategy at the i…

AI-powered virtual eye: perspective, challenges and opportunities
Yue Wu, Yibo Guo, Yulong Yan, Jiancheng Yang, Xin Zhou, Ching-Yu Cheng, Danli Shi, Mingguang He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05516

AI-powered virtual eye: perspective, challenges and opportunities
We envision the "virtual eye" as a next-generation, AI-powered platform that uses interconnected foundation models to simulate the eye's intricate structure and biological function across all scales. Advances in AI, imaging, and multiomics provide a fertile ground for constructing a universal, high-fidelity digital replica of the human eye. This perspective traces the evolution from early mechanistic and rule-based models to contemporary AI-driven approaches, integrating in a unified model with…

Immersive Multimedia Communication: State-of-the-Art on eXtended Reality Streaming
Haopeng Wang, Haiwei Dong, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10004

Immersive Multimedia Communication: State-of-the-Art on eXtended Reality Streaming
Extended reality (XR) is rapidly advancing, and poised to revolutionize content creation and consumption. In XR, users integrate various sensory inputs to form a cohesive perception of the virtual environment. This survey reviews the state-of-the-art in XR streaming, focusing on multiple paradigms. To begin, we define XR and introduce various XR headsets along with their multimodal interaction methods to provide a foundational understanding. We then analyze XR traffic characteristics to highlig…

Efficient Memory Tiering in a Virtual Machine
Chandra Prakash, Aravinda Prasad, Sandeep Kumar, Sreenivas Subramoney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06067 https:…

Efficient Memory Tiering in a Virtual Machine
Memory tiering is the norm to effectively tackle the increasing server memory total cost of ownership (TCO) and the growing data demands of modern data center workloads. However, the host-based state-of-the-art memory tiering solutions can be inefficient for a virtualized environment when (i) the frequently accessed data are scattered across the guest physical address space or (ii) the accesses to a huge page inside the guest are skewed due to a small number of subpages being hot. Scattered or …

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Virtual Cells: Predict, Explain, Discover
Drug discovery is fundamentally a process of inferring the effects of treatments on patients, and would therefore benefit immensely from computational models that can reliably simulate patient responses, enabling researchers to generate and test large numbers of therapeutic hypotheses safely and economically before initiating costly clinical trials. Even a more specific model that predicts the functional response of cells to a wide range of perturbations would be tremendously valuable for disco…

Data-driven nonlinear output regulation via data-enforced incremental passivity
Yixuan Liu, Meichen Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06079 https://

Data-driven nonlinear output regulation via data-enforced incremental passivity
This work proposes a data-driven regulator design that drives the output of a nonlinear system asymptotically to a time-varying reference and rejects time-varying disturbances. The key idea is to design a data-driven feedback controller such that the closed-loop system is incrementally passive with respect to the regulation error and a virtual input. By carefully designing the virtual input, we solve the data-driven nonlinear output regulation problem where the reference and disturbances are ge…

ONLINE TALK> “Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion” A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Orion Klautau, Tohoku University #acrel https://

Physical: No shoes, No service
Virtual: No SIM, No service
#travel #technology #comparison

Probing QCD Confinement with Spin Entanglement
The STAR Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05499 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.054…

Probing QCD Confinement with Spin Entanglement
Once regarded as mere emptiness, the vacuum is now understood to possess a rich and complex structure, characterized by fluctuating energy fields and a condensate of virtual quark-antiquark pairs. These pairs cause spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, a fundamental phenomenon that is believed to generate over 99% of the mass in the visible universe. However, the precise mechanism linking the chiral symmetry breaking to the mass generation associated with quark confinement remains one of the mo…

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DTVM: Revolutionizing Smart Contract Execution with Determinism and Compatibility
We introduce the DeTerministic Virtual Machine (DTVM) Stack, a next-generation smart contract execution framework designed to address critical performance, determinism, and ecosystem compatibility challenges in blockchain networks. Building upon WebAssembly (Wasm) while maintaining full Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ABI compatibility, DTVM introduces a Deterministic Middle Intermediate Representation (dMIR) and a hybrid lazy-JIT compilation engine to balance compilation speed and execution eff…

TSA Working on Haptic Tech To 'Feel' Your Body in Virtual Reality https://www.404media.co/tsa-working-on-haptic-tech-to-feel-your-body-in-virtual-reality/

Containerized In-Storage Processing and Computing-Enabled SSD Disaggregation
Miryeong Kwon, Donghyun Gouk, Eunjee Na, Jiseon Kim, Junhee Kim, Hyein Woo, Eojin Ryu, Hyunkyu Choi, Jinwoo Baek, Hanyeoreum Bae, Mahmut Kandemir, Myoungsoo Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06769

Containerized In-Storage Processing and Computing-Enabled SSD Disaggregation
ISP minimizes data transfer for analytics but faces challenges in adaptation and disaggregation. We propose DockerSSD, an ISP model leveraging OS-level virtualization and lightweight firmware to enable containerized data processing directly on SSDs. Key features include Ethernet over NVMe for network-based ISP management and Virtual Firmware for secure, efficient container execution. DockerSSD supports disaggregated storage pools, reducing host overhead and enhancing large-scale services like L…

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Dressed to Gamble: How Poker Drives the Dynamics of Wearables and Visits on Decentraland's Social Virtual World
Decentraland is a blockchain-based social virtual world where users can publish and sell wearables to customize avatars. In it, the third-party Decentral Games (DG) allows players of its flagship game ICE Poker to earn cryptocurrency only if they possess certain wearables. Herein, we present a comprehensive study on how DG and its game influence the dynamics of wearables and in-world visits in Decentraland. To this end, we analyzed 5.9 million wearable transfers made on the Polygon blockchain (…

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The Many Challenges of Human-Like Agents in Virtual Game Environments
Human-like agents are an increasingly important topic in games and beyond. Believable non-player characters enhance the gaming experience by improving immersion and providing entertainment. They also offer players the opportunity to engage with AI entities that can function as opponents, teachers, or cooperating partners. Additionally, in games where bots are prohibited -- and even more so in non-game environments -- there is a need for methods capable of identifying whether digital interaction…

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The Junction of Immersive Analytics and Virtual Reconstructions -- A Case Study on the Mausoleum of Emperor Maxentius
Virtual Archaeology has significantly evolved over the last decades through advancements in data acquisition and representation by, e.g., improved data recording technologies and virtual reality devices. Immersive environments provide novel ways to present historical events or objects with high visual quality for both, the general public as well as researchers. Here, we examine how the emerging field of Immersive Analytics can contribute to enhancing the understanding and exploration of archaeo…

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Gromov-Witten invariants in family and quantum cohomology
A moduli space of stable maps to the fibers of a fiber bundle is constructed. The new moduli space is a family version of the classical moduli space of stable maps to a non-singular complex projective variety. The virtual cycle for this moduli space is also constructed, and an analogue of Gromov-Witten invariants is defined. As an application, we recover the formula for the number of rational degree d curves in P3, whose image lies in a plane in P3 (known as planar curves in P3), intersecting r…

So, EU users get the more open iOS now than the rest of the world?
Apple Is Working to Permit Other Default Virtual Assistants on iOS, but Only in the E.U. – Pixel Envy https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ios-default-virtual-assistants/

Semantic Communication-Enabled Cloud-Edge-End-collaborative Metaverse Services Architecure
Yuxuan Li, Sheng Jinag, Bizhu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10001

Semantic Communication-Enabled Cloud-Edge-End-collaborative Metaverse Services Architecure
With technology advancing and the pursuit of new audiovisual experiences strengthening, the metaverse has gained surging enthusiasm. However, it faces practical hurdles as substantial data like high-resolution virtual scenes must be transmitted between cloud platforms and VR devices. Specifically, the VR device's wireless transmission hampered by insufficient bandwidth, causes speed and delay problems. Meanwhile, poor channel quality leads to data errors and worsens user experience. To solve th…

A generating set of Reidemeister moves of oriented virtual knots
Danish Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24094 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

A generating set of Reidemeister moves of oriented virtual knots
In oriented knot theory, verifying a quantity is an invariant involves checking its invariance under all oriented Reidemeister moves, a process that can be intricate and time-consuming. A generating set of oriented moves simplifies this by requiring verification for only a minimal subset from which all other moves can be derived. While generating sets for classical oriented Reidemeister moves are well-established, their virtual counterparts are less explored. In this study, we enumerate the ori…

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

Just working comfortably on the back deck on a warm spring Saturday, like you do.
#AppleVisionPro #spring

Matrix representations of the twisted virtual braid group and its extensions
Mohamad N. Nasser, Vaibhav Keshari, Madeti Prabhakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03806

Matrix representations of the twisted virtual braid group and its extensions
This paper classifies complex local representations of the twisted virtual braid group, $\mathrm{TVB}_2$, into $\mathrm{GL}_3(\mathbb{C})$. It shows that such representations fall into eight types, all of which are unfaithful and reducible to degree $2 \times 2$. Further reducibility to degree 1 is analyzed for specific types. The paper also examines complex homogeneous local representations of $\mathrm{TVB}_n$ into $\mathrm{GL}_{n+1}(\mathbb{C})$ for $n \geq 3$, identifying seven unfaithful ty…

‘The Postman Always Recharges Twice’
🇨🇭 Swiss Post enables bi-directional charging (#V2G) on its fleet of three-wheeled e-scooters, turning them into a virtual power plant; delivering or collecting energy at the right time.

Swiss Post e-scooters as a virtual power station
🔋 Can electric scooters stabilize the electricity grid? Swiss Post is testing it – with bidirectional charging! Find out more now!

Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year for less than $1,000 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busine…

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A Casimir-like probe for 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Virtual transitions in a Casimir-like configuration are utilized to probe quantum aspects of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity. This study employs a quantum optics-based approach, wherein an Unruh-DeWitt detector (modeled as a two-level atom) follows a radial timelike geodesic, falling freely into an uncharged, nonrotating black hole described by 4D EGB gravity, becoming thermalized in the usual Unruh manner. The black hole, asymptotically Minkowskian, is enclosed by a Cas…

Show Me Your Best Side: Characteristics of User-Preferred Perspectives for 3D Graph Drawings
Lucas Joos, Gavin J. Mooney, Maximilian T. Fischer, Daniel A. Keim, Falk Schreiber, Helen C. Purchase, Karsten Klein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09212

Show Me Your Best Side: Characteristics of User-Preferred Perspectives for 3D Graph Drawings
The visual analysis of graphs in 3D has become increasingly popular, accelerated by the rise of immersive technology, such as augmented and virtual reality. Unlike 2D drawings, 3D graph layouts are highly viewpoint-dependent, making perspective selection critical for revealing structural and relational patterns. Despite its importance, there is limited empirical evidence guiding what constitutes an effective or preferred viewpoint from the user's perspective. In this paper, we present a systema…

A Project Moohan benchmark gets spotted, and may have revealed the Android XR headset's key spec https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality…

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Scene Exploration by Vision-Language Models
Active perception enables robots to dynamically gather information by adjusting their viewpoints, a crucial capability for interacting with complex, partially observable environments. In this paper, we present AP-VLM, a novel framework that combines active perception with a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to guide robotic exploration and answer semantic queries. Using a 3D virtual grid overlaid on the scene and orientation adjustments, AP-VLM allows a robotic manipulator to intelligently select opt…

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On the Performance of Cloud-based ARM SVE for Zero-Knowledge Proving Systems
Dumitrel Loghin, Shuang Liang, Shengwei Liu, Xiong Liu, Pingcheng Ruan, Zhigang Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09505

On the Performance of Cloud-based ARM SVE for Zero-Knowledge Proving Systems
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) are becoming a gold standard in scaling blockchains and bringing Web3 to life. At the same time, ZKP for transactions running on the Ethereum Virtual Machine require powerful servers with hundreds of CPU cores. The current zkProver implementation from Polygon is optimized for x86-64 CPUs by vectorizing key operations, such as Merkle tree building with Poseidon hashes over the Goldilocks field, with Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX and AVX512). With these optimizations…

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VIDEX: A Disaggregated and Extensible Virtual Index for the Cloud and AI Era
Virtual index, also known as hypothetical indexes, play a crucial role in database query optimization. However, with the rapid advancement of cloud computing and AI-driven models for database optimization, traditional virtual index approaches face significant challenges. Cloud-native environments often prohibit direct conducting query optimization process on production databases due to stability requirements and data privacy concerns. Moreover, while AI models show promising progress, their int…

Der Stealth-Klassiker "Thief" kehrt zurück – als VR-Spiel
Nach mehr als zehn Jahren Abwesenheit kehrt die genreprägende "Thief"-Reihe zurück und erlebt in der Virtual Reality ein Comeback.

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
Yerin Doh, Joonhyung Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10013

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
This study introduces the media artwork Dear Passenger, Please Wear a Mask, designed to offer a layered exploration of single-use mask waste, which escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece reframes underappreciated ecological concerns by interweaving digital nostalgia and airline travel recollections of Millennials and Gen Z with a unique fantasy narrative. Via a point-and-click game and an immersive exhibition, participants traverse both virtual and real domains, facing ethical and en…

Virtual Polarization Elements for Spatially Varying Jones Matrix Transformations on a Free-Space Plane
Mingyue Wang (Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China), Jiayuan Wang (Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Shenzhen Research Institute of Xiamen University, Shenzhen, China)
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Virtual Polarization Elements for Spatially Varying Jones Matrix Transformations on a Free-Space Plane
Precise control over the spatial and polarization properties of light is foundational for advanced photonic systems, yet most conventional approaches are constrained to local, contact-based manipulation at physical interfaces. To overcome these constraints, here we introduce a fundamentally new framework for action-at-a-distance polarization control using virtual polarization elements (VPEs). VPEs apply prescribed local Jones matrix transformations between an input field at the modulation plane…

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Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoning
Yihong Tang, Kehai Chen, Muyun Yang, Zhengyu Niu, Jing Li, Tiejun Zhao, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01748

Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoning
The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred significant interest in Role-Playing Agents (RPAs) for applications such as emotional companionship and virtual interaction. However, recent RPAs are often built on explicit dialogue data, lacking deep, human-like internal thought processes, resulting in superficial knowledge and style expression. While Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) can be employed to simulate character thought, their direct application is hindered by attention diversi…

On the Generalization of Data-Assisted Control in port-Hamiltonian Systems (DAC-pH)
Mostafa Eslami, Maryam Babazadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07079 https…

On the Generalization of Data-Assisted Control in port-Hamiltonian Systems (DAC-pH)
This paper introduces a hypothetical hybrid control framework for port-Hamiltonian (p$\mathcal{H}$) systems, employing a dynamic decomposition based on Data-Assisted Control (DAC). The system's evolution is split into two parts with fixed topology: Right-Hand Side (RHS)- an intrinsic Hamiltonian flow handling worst-case parametric uncertainties, and Left-Hand Side (LHS)- a dissipative/input flow addressing both structural and parametric uncertainties. A virtual port variable $Π$ serves as the …

Flow-induced vibration of twin-pipe model with varying mass and damping: A study using virtual physical framework
Jiawei Shen, Shixiao Fu, Xuepeng Fu, Torgeir Moan, Svein S{\ae}vik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05649

Flow-induced vibration of twin-pipe model with varying mass and damping: A study using virtual physical framework
Flow-induced vibration (FIV) commonly occurs in rigidly coupled twin-pipe structures. However, the limited understanding of their FIV responses and hydrodynamic features presents a major challenge to the development of reliable engineering designs. To bridge this gap, the present study systematically investigates the FIV characteristics of a rigidly coupled twin-pipe model with elastic support using a virtual physical framework (VPF), which enables flexible control of structural parameters duri…

Frame-Level Real-Time Assessment of Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises from Video-Level Labeled Data: Task-Specific vs. Foundation Models
Gon\c{c}alo Mesquita, Ana Rita C\'oias, Artur Dubrawski, Alexandre Bernardino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03752

Frame-Level Real-Time Assessment of Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises from Video-Level Labeled Data: Task-Specific vs. Foundation Models
The growing demands of stroke rehabilitation have increased the need for solutions to support autonomous exercising. Virtual coaches can provide real-time exercise feedback from video data, helping patients improve motor function and keep engagement. However, training real-time motion analysis systems demands frame-level annotations, which are time-consuming and costly to obtain. In this work, we present a framework that learns to classify individual frames from video-level annotations for real…

I can't stop thinking of 'The Running Man' whenever I see articles about virtual (animal) fences:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4229k744lo

Cambridge cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river
A council says two to four fall into the water in a city centre during grazing season each year.

I should learn to do a floating IP, but it sounds complicated! https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/oci-ip-failover/index.html#task-2-configure-the-cluster-and-the-floating-ip

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Effect of laboratory conditions on the perception of virtual stages for music
This manuscript presents initial findings critical for supporting augmented acoustics experiments in custom-made hearing booths, addressing a key challenge in ensuring perceptual validity and experimental rigor in these highly sensitive setups. This validation ensures our proposed methodology is sound, guarantees the reliability of future results, and lays the foundational groundwork for subsequent perceptual studies and the development of robust guidelines for laboratory design in virtual acou…

Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other entertainment companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/medi…

Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Nvim 0.11 was just released.
https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-11/

ONLINE TALK> “Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion” A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Orion Klautau, Tohoku University
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AI-powered Contextual 3D Environment Generation: A Systematic Review
Miguel Silva, Alexandre Valle de Carvalho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05449 https://

AI-powered Contextual 3D Environment Generation: A Systematic Review
The generation of high-quality 3D environments is crucial for industries such as gaming, virtual reality, and cinema, yet remains resource-intensive due to the reliance on manual processes. This study performs a systematic review of existing generative AI techniques for 3D scene generation, analyzing their characteristics, strengths, limitations, and potential for improvement. By examining state-of-the-art approaches, it presents key challenges such as scene authenticity and the influence of te…

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Quantum Annealing-Enhanced Virtual Traffic Lights and its Evaluation Using a Quantum-in-the-Loop Simulation Testbed
Virtual Traffic Light (VTL) is a traffic control method that does not require traffic signal-related infrastructure for roadway intersections. Connected vehicles (CVs) are given right-of-way based on prevailing traffic conditions, such as estimated times of arrival (ETAs) of vehicles, the number of CVs in different approaches, and their emissions. These factors are considered in line with the objectives of the VTL application. Aiming to optimize traffic flow by reducing delays, VTL generates Si…

Higher-order soft and virtual corrections in $p p \to \gamma W$ production at the LHC
Nikolaos Kidonakis, Alberto Tonero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01590 h…

Higher-order soft and virtual corrections in $p p \to γW$ production at the LHC
We study higher-order QCD corrections beyond NLO for the associated production of a photon with a $W$ boson ($γW^+$ and $γW^-$ production) at the Large Hadron Collider. We calculate the NNLO soft-plus-virtual QCD corrections as well as the N$^3$LO soft-gluon corrections to the total production cross section and the photon transverse-momentum distribution in single-particle-inclusive kinematics. The higher-order corrections provide a significant enhancement to the cross section. This is the fi…

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Roberto Bacani Figueroa Jr, Mai Huong Nguyen, Aliza Ali, Lugsamee Nuamthanom Kimura, Marisa Marisa, Ami Hibatul Jameel, Luisa Almeda Gelisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Amid the growing need to keep learners abreast of rapid technological advancements brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this study explores perceived needs of students in virtual learning environments supported by emerging technologies. A survey was conducted across five leading open universities in Southeast Asia. The study aimed to identify student preferences regarding features of their virtual learning environments that could better prepare them as productive citizens and prof…

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CellFlux: Simulating Cellular Morphology Changes via Flow Matching
Building a virtual cell capable of accurately simulating cellular behaviors in silico has long been a dream in computational biology. We introduce CellFlux, an image-generative model that simulates cellular morphology changes induced by chemical and genetic perturbations using flow matching. Unlike prior methods, CellFlux models distribution-wise transformations from unperturbed to perturbed cell states, effectively distinguishing actual perturbation effects from experimental artifacts such as …

Virtual First Betti Number of GGS Groups
Andrew Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23269 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23269

Virtual First Betti Number of GGS Groups
We observe a criterion for groups to have vanishing virtual first Betti number and use it to give infinitely many examples of torsion-free, finitely generated, residually finite groups which aren't virtually diffuse. This answers a question raised by Kionke and Raimbault.

Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…

Unlocking the Future of Energy: How UK Flex Markets Are Reshaping the Grid
With more renewable energy—especially wind and solar—being integrated than ever before, maintaining balance between supply and demand in real time is a growing challenge. That’s where flex markets come in - and everyone from business to consumers is invited to have a seat at the table.

Maximizing the Promptness of Metaverse Systems using Edge Computing by Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tam Ninh Thi-Thanh, Trinh Van Chien, Hung Tran, Nguyen Hoai Son, Van Nhan Vo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02657

Maximizing the Promptness of Metaverse Systems using Edge Computing by Deep Reinforcement Learning
Metaverse and Digital Twin (DT) have attracted much academic and industrial attraction to approach the future digital world. This paper introduces the advantages of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in assisting Metaverse system-based Digital Twin. In this system, we assume that it includes several Metaverse User devices collecting data from the real world to transfer it into the virtual world, a Metaverse Virtual Access Point (MVAP) undertaking the processing of data, and an edge computing ser…

Performance Impact of Containerized METADOCK 2 on Heterogeneous Platforms
Antonio Jes\'us Banegas-Luna, Baldomero Imbern\'on Tudela, Carlos Mart\'inez-Cort\'es, Jos\'e Mar\'ia Cecilia, Horacio P\'erez-S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06450

Performance Impact of Containerized METADOCK 2 on Heterogeneous Platforms
Virtual screening (VS) is a computationally intensive process crucial for drug discovery, often requiring significant resources to analyze large chemical libraries and predict ligand-protein interactions. This study evaluates the performance impact of containerization on METADOCK 2, a high-throughput docking software when deployed on heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. By testing three containerization technologies - Docker, Singularity, and Apptainer - across varying CPU …

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The Blowup Formula for the Instanton Part of Vafa-Witten Invariants on Projective Surfaces
We prove a blow-up formula for the generating series of virtual $χ_y$-genera for moduli spaces of sheaves on projective surfaces, which is related to a conjectured formula for topological $χ_y$-genera of Göttsche. Our formula is a refinement of one by Vafa-Witten relating to S-duality. We prove the formula simultaneously in the setting of Gieseker stable sheaves on polarised surfaces and also in the setting of framed sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^2$. The proof is based on the blow-up algorithm of N…

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A study on the effects of mixed explicit and implicit communications in human-virtual-agent interactions
Communication between humans and robots (or virtual agents) is essential for interaction and often inspired by human communication, which uses gestures, facial expressions, gaze direction, and other explicit and implicit means. This work presents an interaction experiment where humans and virtual agents interact through explicit (gestures, manual entries using mouse and keyboard, voice, sound, and information on screen) and implicit (gaze direction, location, facial expressions, and raise of ey…

Ideal Triangulations and Once-Punctured Surface Bundles
Birch Bryant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21798 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.2179…

Ideal Triangulations and Once-Punctured Surface Bundles
A well-known result of Walsh states that if $\mathcal T^*$ is an ideal triangulation of an atoroidal, acylindrical, irreducible, compact 3-manifold with torus boundary components, then every properly embedded, two-sided, incompressible surface $S$ is isotopic to a spun-normal surface unless $S$ is isotopic to a fiber or virtual fiber. Previously it was unknown if for such a 3-manifold an ideal triangulation in which a fiber spun-normalizes exists. We give a proof of existence and give an algori…

Assessing Workers Neuro-physiological Stress Responses to Augmented Reality Safety Warnings in Immersive Virtual Roadway Work Zones
Fatemeh Banani Ardecani, Omidreza Shoghli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03113

Assessing Workers Neuro-physiological Stress Responses to Augmented Reality Safety Warnings in Immersive Virtual Roadway Work Zones
This paper presents a multi-stage experimental framework that integrates immersive Virtual Reality (VR) simulations, wearable sensors, and advanced signal processing to investigate construction workers neuro-physiological stress responses to multi-sensory AR-enabled warnings. Participants performed light- and moderate-intensity roadway maintenance tasks within a high-fidelity VR roadway work zone, while key stress markers of electrodermal activity (EDA), heart rate variability (HRV), and electr…

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Virtual Reality Lensing for Surface Approximation in Feature-driven DVR
We present a novel lens technique to support the identification of heterogeneous features in direct volume rendering (DVR) visualizations. In contrast to data-centric transfer function (TF) design, our image-driven approach enables users to specify target features directly within the visualization using deformable quadric surfaces. The lens leverages quadrics for their expressive yet simple parametrization, enabling users to sculpt feature approximations by composing multiple quadric lenses. By…

Tunable Virtual IMU Frame by Weighted Averaging of Multiple Non-Collocated IMUs
Yizhou Gao, Tim Barfoot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00371 https://

Tunable Virtual IMU Frame by Weighted Averaging of Multiple Non-Collocated IMUs
We present a new method to combine several rigidly connected but physically separated IMUs through a weighted average into a single virtual IMU (VIMU). This has the benefits of (i) reducing process noise through averaging, and (ii) allowing for tuning the location of the VIMU. The VIMU can be placed to be coincident with, for example, a camera frame or GNSS frame, thereby offering a quality-of-life improvement for users. Specifically, our VIMU removes the need to consider any lever-arm terms in…

Finiteness properties of stabilisers of oligomorphic actions
Francesco Fournier-Facio, Peter H. Kropholler, Robert Alonzo Lyman, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02319

Finiteness properties of stabilisers of oligomorphic actions
An action of a group on a set is oligomorphic if it has finitely many orbits of $n$-element subsets for all $n$. We prove that for a large class of groups (including all groups of finite virtual cohomological dimension and all countable linear groups), for any oligomorphic action of such a group on an infinite set there exists a finite subset whose stabiliser is not of type $\mathrm{FP}_\infty$. This leads to obstructions on finiteness properties for permutational wreath products and twisted Br…

On the Virtual Euler Characteristic of the Moduli Space of Stable Pairs on Surfaces
Ana Pavlakovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23531 https://

On the Virtual Euler Characteristic of the Moduli Space of Stable Pairs on Surfaces
We study the stable pair theory on toric surfaces and determine the virtual tangent space over the fixed point loci. Further, we present a program to compute the virtual Euler characteristic, illustrated by the case of the projective plane. As an application, conjectures regarding rationality and symmetry are supported by verification of a special case.

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Constraints and Variables Reduction for Optimal Power Flow Using Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks with Virtual Node-Splitting
Power system networks are often modeled as homogeneous graphs, which limits the ability of graph neural network (GNN) to capture individual generator features at the same nodes. By introducing the proposed virtual node-splitting strategy, generator-level attributes like costs, limits, and ramp rates can be fully captured by GNN models, improving GNN's learning capacity and prediction accuracy. Optimal power flow (OPF) problem is used for real-time grid operations. Limited timeframe motivates st…

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LAVA: Lifetime-Aware VM Allocation with Learned Distributions and Adaptation to Mispredictions
Scheduling virtual machines (VMs) on hosts in cloud data centers dictates efficiency and is an NP-hard problem with incomplete information. Prior work improved VM scheduling with predicted VM lifetimes. Our work further improves lifetime-aware scheduling using repredictions with lifetime distributions versus one-shot prediction. Our approach repredicts and adjusts VM and host lifetimes when incorrect predictions emerge. We also present novel approaches for defragmentation and regular system mai…

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Human-Machine Interfaces for Subsea Telerobotics: From Soda-straw to Natural Language Interactions
This review explores the evolution of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) in subsea telerobotics, charting the progression from traditional first-person "soda-straw" consoles -- characterized by narrow field-of-view camera feeds -- to contemporary interfaces leveraging gesture recognition, virtual reality, and natural language processing. We systematically analyze the state-of-the-art literature through three interrelated perspectives: operator experience (including immersive feedback, cognitive wo…

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CellFlux: Simulating Cellular Morphology Changes via Flow Matching
Building a virtual cell capable of accurately simulating cellular behaviors in silico has long been a dream in computational biology. We introduce CellFlux, an image-generative model that simulates cellular morphology changes induced by chemical and genetic perturbations using flow matching. Unlike prior methods, CellFlux models distribution-wise transformations from unperturbed to perturbed cell states, effectively distinguishing actual perturbation effects from experimental artifacts such as …

Cognitive Load-Driven VR Memory Palaces: Personalizing Focus and Recall Enhancement
Zhengyang Li, Hailin Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02700 https://

Cognitive Load-Driven VR Memory Palaces: Personalizing Focus and Recall Enhancement
Cognitive load, which varies across individuals, can significantly affect focus and memory performance.This study explores the integration of Virtual Reality (VR) with memory palace techniques, aiming to optimize VR environments tailored to individual cognitive load levels to improve focus and memory. We utilized EEG devices, specifically the Oculus Quest 2, to monitor Beta wave activity in 10 participants.By modeling their cognitive load profiles through polynomial regression, we dynamically a…

SVD: Spatial Video Dataset
M. H. Izadimehr, Milad Ghanbari, Guodong Chen, Wei Zhou, Xiaoshuai Hao, Mallesham Dasari, Christian Timmerer, Hadi Amirpour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06037

SVD: Spatial Video Dataset
Stereoscopic video has long been the subject of research due to its capacity to deliver immersive three-dimensional content across a wide range of applications, from virtual and augmented reality to advanced human-computer interaction. The dual-view format inherently provides binocular disparity cues that enhance depth perception and realism, making it indispensable for fields such as telepresence, 3D mapping, and robotic vision. Until recently, however, end-to-end pipelines for capturing, enco…

Investigating A Geometrical Solution to the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict for Targeted Movements in Virtual Reality
Xiaoye Michael Wang, Matthew Prenevost, Aneesh Tarun, Ian Robinson, Michael Nitsche, Gabby Resch, Ali Mazalek, Timothy N. Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23310

Investigating A Geometrical Solution to the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict for Targeted Movements in Virtual Reality
While virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential to revolutionize digital user interaction, how visual information is presented through VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) differs from naturalistic viewing and interactions in physical environments, leading to performance decrements. One critical challenge in VR development is the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC), which arises due to the intrinsic constraints of approximating the natural viewing geometry through digital displays. Although…

NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
Haeun Lee, Omin Kwon, Yeonhong Park, Jae W. Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02024

NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are playing a crucial role in latency-critical, high-throughput services like virtual assistants and code generation. While techniques such as continuous batching and paged attention address service-level objectives (SLOs), and quantization methods accelerate inference, the dynamic and efficient adaptation of precision at runtime remains a significant, largely underexplored challenge. The emergence of hardware support for FP8 arithmetic, offering up to 2x the throug…

SEMNAV: A Semantic Segmentation-Driven Approach to Visual Semantic Navigation
Rafael Flor-Rodr\'iguez, Carlos Guti\'errez-\'Alvarez, Francisco Javier Acevedo-Rodr\'iguez, Sergio Lafuente-Arroyo, Roberto J. L\'opez-Sastre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01418

SEMNAV: A Semantic Segmentation-Driven Approach to Visual Semantic Navigation
Visual Semantic Navigation (VSN) is a fundamental problem in robotics, where an agent must navigate toward a target object in an unknown environment, mainly using visual information. Most state-of-the-art VSN models are trained in simulation environments, where rendered scenes of the real world are used, at best. These approaches typically rely on raw RGB data from the virtual scenes, which limits their ability to generalize to real-world environments due to domain adaptation issues. To tackle …

Advancing Digital Accessibility: Integrating AR/VR and Health Tech for Inclusive Healthcare Solutions
Vishnu Ramineni, Shivareddy Devarapalli, Balakrishna Pothineni, Prema Kumar Veerapaneni, Aditya Gupta, Pankaj Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24039

Advancing Digital Accessibility: Integrating AR/VR and Health Tech for Inclusive Healthcare Solutions
Modern healthcare domain incorporates a feature of digital accessibility to ensure seamless flow of online services for the patients. However, this feature of digital accessibility poses a challenge particularly for patients with disabilities. To eradicate this issue and provide immersive and user-friendly experiences, evolving technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are integrated in medical applications to enhance accessibility. The present research paper aims to stu…

DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
Zhao Mandi, Yifan Hou, Dieter Fox, Yashraj Narang, Ajay Mandlekar, Shuran Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24853

DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
We study the problem of functional retargeting: learning dexterous manipulation policies to track object states from human hand-object demonstrations. We focus on long-horizon, bimanual tasks with articulated objects, which is challenging due to large action space, spatiotemporal discontinuities, and embodiment gap between human and robot hands. We propose DexMachina, a novel curriculum-based algorithm: the key idea is to use virtual object controllers with decaying strength: an object is first…