Friday, June 22, 2018

Open Application: XR Startup Bootcamp

Open Application: XR Startup Bootcamp 

NYC Media Lab is seeking NYC university-based teams that endeavor to start new companies. Join NYC Media Lab's XR Startup Bootcamp, an accelerator for startup teams focusing on VR/AR, voice technology and other future interfaces. The program will empower teams to adopt the "lean" startup method to search for and develop a business model for their startup concept. The program runs from September through November 2018 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Participating teams will receive mentorship from leading media and technology executives and investors from NYC Media Lab Member Companies and $10,000 in funding. 

Eligibility: Faculty members, students (undergraduate and graduate), and/or existing startups affiliated with a NYC-based university are eligible to apply. Students who graduated in 2018 are eligible to apply.

Learn more about the program and application, and register for an information session this summer.

Application Deadline: Friday, August 3, 2018

Questions? Contact: Amy Chen at amy.chen@nycmedialab.org

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Clemens Kirner - CEO and founder of Insider Navigation Systems May 25th


Insider Navigation's Clemens Kimer will present at NYU's Magnet Lecture hall Friday, May 25th. 
1:00pm


Insider Navigation provides the world's best tracking solution for real-world AR navigation. The group has recently augmented Volkswagon's main factories in Germany, the largest factory in Europe and one of the largest factories in the world. The future of navigation will be augmented. See it Friday! This event is made possible by the Integrated Digital Media's Mobile AR Lab. 

Thursday, May 3, 2018

3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image

http://cvl-demos.cs.nott.ac.uk/vrn/

3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image

Aaron S. Jackson, Adrian Bulat, Vasileios Argyriou and Georgios Tzimiropoulos
Computer Vision Laboratory, The University of Nottingham
This is an online demo of our paper Large Pose 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image via Direct Volumetric CNN Regression. Take a look at our project website to read the paper and get the code.
Please use a (close to) frontal image, or the face detector won't see you (dlib). Images and 3D reconstructions will be deleted within 2 days. They will not be used for anything other than this demo.

3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image

Aaron S. Jackson, Adrian Bulat, Vasileios Argyriou and Georgios Tzimiropoulos
Computer Vision Laboratory, The University of Nottingham
This is an online demo of our paper Large Pose 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image via Direct Volumetric CNN Regression. Take a look at our project website to read the paper and get the code.
Please use a (close to) frontal image, or the face detector won't see you (dlib). Images and 3D reconstructions will be deleted within 2 days. They will not be used for anything other than this demo.

NEW YORK TIMES AR Team Lead COMES TO your FINAL REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so.....
I said I would try and.... I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!



the AR Lead for the NYT's mobile app said He will come to ur final review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is literally one of the most important [if not the most important] AR teams working right now- they have one of the largest user bases........

Please try to impress!!!!! Everyone is doing good so far..Keep going!!!!!!!!


also

Justin Hendrix has said he will come back


****please know there is a chance of a no-show- the more important the people are the higher the chance they will drop out and it has happened in past years- I have asked other people to also come as backups-

^^


Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Thursday at 6:00 - Siyuan's Thesis Defense!!!!!

Thursday at 6:00 - Siyuan's Thesis Defense!!!!!
Anyone who wants to heckle Siyaun from the back, come join me ^^

Monday, April 30, 2018

Mechanics & Movement: Announcing Our New Robotics Residents