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Two PhD students won XCC fellowship award |
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  Two PhD students, James Teh Keng Soon and Khoo Eng Tat from CUTE Center/Mixed Reality Lab have won the Xtra Chapter Challenge (XCC) Fellowship award. In total there are three students from NUS who won the award. The award was presented by Mr Teo Ming Kian, Perm Sec (National Research and Development) on Friday, March 5 in Pan Pacific Hotel during the Opening day of the Technology Commercialisation Forum. There was also a press conference for the media to meet the XCC award recipients. The Extra Chapter Challenge fellowship award will provide fellows with a monthly stipend of up to S$3,200 per month for up to six months to develop a plan to commercialize their inventions. Fellows will be recommended for participation in ETP’s entrepreneurship workshops, networking activities, and an overseas market exposure study visit trip conducted by NEC for the iLEAD program. http://www.mixedrealitylab.org/media/articles/XCC News Item.doc |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 March 2010 )
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Adrian David Cheok delivered keynote address at the Synthetic Reality conference in Israel |
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Synthetic Reality was a symposium that combines keynote addresses, presentations of research papers, poster sessions, technical demonstrations, an industrial track, and tutorials. The event provided an opportunity for researchers from multiple disciplines to discuss the science and applications of synthetic realities. The seminar featured a packed program of lectures, invited talks, and demos.
Adrian David Cheok, the director of the Mixed Reality Lab at the National University of Singapore delivered the keynote address. In his talk, Adrian Cheok described his work introducing touch to VR applications. (Most virtual reality apps are based only on audio and video.) Some of these somewhat controversial applications enable users to pet animals from afar and even experience such physical interactions as hugging or even kissing remotely Organizers: The Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL), Sammy Ofer School of
Communications, IDC, in cooperation with the IBM Haifa Research Lab. LINKS: https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/info/201001_SR.shtml |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 March 2010 )
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