Xue Teng was invited to do a talk for the Ezra Systems Seminar at Cornell University! The seminar series aims to introduce new concepts in systems engineering. Xue's talk was entitled "When Virtual Motion Differs From Reality: Tracking Perception and Action". The talk covered distortions in Virtual Reality and our tolerance to these distortions. Xue […]
Our lab loves to hang out together outside of work! We go rock climbing together on weekends, along with some alumni and students from other labs. (Many times we heard the phrases "Do it for Rob!", "I wish Rob was here", and "We should bring Rob next time." This is foreshadowing 😊) Disclaimer! These photos […]
VRPL has been keeping busy these past few months. Here is what we've done so far for the first half of 2026. We kicked off 2026 with Meaghan (not in photo), Iroshini and Phoebe presenting posters at the Connected Minds Retreat on February 24-25, 2026! Meaghan received the Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship. Iroshini and Phoebe […]
On May 12th 2026, Rob, Meaghan, and Ceci travelled to Ottawa, Ontario to assess VR headsets in microgravity with the Canadian Space Agency 🚀
On July 1-2, 2026, Rob, Ceci and Meaghan ventured to Houston, Texas to visit NASA's Johnson Space Center! The purpose of the visit was to test ✨ real astronauts ✨ on their Home-Base project, but they also had fun at the Space Center. Here they are in outer space: Here they are pretending to be […]
Rob and Phoebe (and I. Scott MacKenzie!) were at Marrakech, Morocco for the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ACM ETRA), where their short paper on gaze behaviour in the dual XR pointing-and-walking task was accepted for presentation! Rob also chaired a session on AI and LLMs.
We kicked off 2025 by saying farewell to our MSc alumni and Research Assistant, Romina. She is still alive and well--she just works somewhere else now. Harshitha defended her MS thesis, and now works as a Research Assistant. Our PI Rob, Postdoc Xue, PhD student Hongyi, and co-supervised (with Dr. Laurie Wilcox) then-MSc-now-PhD student Iroshini […]
On January 17, 2026, VRPL together with Connected Minds conducted an educational initiative for students ages 13-15 to introduce them to STEM research, postsecondary opportunities, and possible research careers.