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Driving the future of augmented and virtual reality across industries!

Shaping the Future

Pushing the boundaries of immersive technology and research that transform how we interact with the digital world.

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Upcoming Events

Wed, Jun 11, 2025 – Sun, Jun 15, 2025 in Nashville, TN

XRTC faculty are hitting the road! We’re excited to share that several of our team members will be attending the CVPR Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition this year. Stay tuned as we highlight their work, presentations, and key takeaways from one of the premier conferences in computer vision and AI.

Recent Research

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Custom Condition Generation for Zero-Shot Human-Scene Interactions Synthesis

A collaboration between Fujitsu and Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute has led to the development of a novel method for generating human-scene interactions, effectively overcoming the challenges faced by existing techniques in handling uncommon interactions.

Monday, April 28, 2025

MiniMates: Miniature Avatars for AR Remote Meetings

MiniMates aims to reimagine how users interact with each other during conference calls.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

3D Scene Reconstruction Without Camera Motion

CMU and Fujitsu developed a method to boost 3D reconstruction from 2D images by adapting Lucas-Kanade to dynamic Gaussian Splatting, enabling accurate motion tracking without big datasets.

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