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Do We Need New Exam Rules for the Smartglasses Era?

It is definitely happening: students are using smartglasses to cheat on their exams. Anecdotal evidence of this has been reported on Reddit for quite some time: for example, this week and  two months ago. It is clearly technically feasible to use … Continue reading

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AR and Wearable AI Need to be Trustworthy to be Useful

A lovely article in The Economist this week: AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users. The article makes a point that is perhaps obvious: AI needs to be reliable to be useful. E.g., omitting the second-highest result … Continue reading

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Papers on AR-Mediated Human-Robot Collaboration Coming Out in RO-MAN and MobileHCI

Two AR-mediated human-robot collaboration papers we have been working on for quite some time are coming out later this summer.  fARfetch: Enabling Collocated AR-HRC in Large Visually Diverse Environments with VLM-Driven AR Content Adaptation is about human-robot collaborations in large, … Continue reading

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New Funding: 4-year NSF CISE FutureCore Award on Automated AR Guidance Monitoring

We are grateful to the NSF for supporting our work on automated AR guidance monitoring, in pervasive AR and human-robot collaboration (HRC) applications. This award will support our joint work with Miroslav Pajic’s group at Duke, which is very exciting … Continue reading

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RIP Magic Leap Headsets

It is official: Magic Leap is no longer making its own headsets. Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the layoffs. May you land on your feet; any team will be lucky to have you. Magic Leap has a very … Continue reading

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Keynote and Technology Demonstrations at IEEE VisArch Co-located with ISCA

It was our pleasure to participate in IEEE VisArch Workshop co-located with IEEE ISCA, which came to Raleigh, NC in June 2026. Professor Gorlatova delivered a keynote speech titled “Intelligent and Secure XR: Building Adaptive Spatial Systems That Know When … Continue reading

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Recent I3T Lab Graduate Sarah Eom Highlighted by the Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation

Sarah Eom, PhD, was highlighted by the Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation for her work at the intersection of next-generation immersive systems and healthcare. Congratulations Dr. Eom!

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Is This the Future of our Day to Day Lives with Smart Glasses and AI?

If you do not believe that the future is smartglasses + AI, the VisionClaw paper might change your mind. The authors created a system that “running on Meta RayBan smart glasses, continuously perceives real-world context and enables in-situ, speech-driven action … Continue reading

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I3T Lab Tour a Part of Regional NAE Meeting

It was our sincere pleasure to offer a Duke I3T Lab Tour as part of the National Academy of Engineers Regional Meeting held at Duke University in May 2026.   May 2026 NAE Regional Meeting attendees exploring live AR and … Continue reading

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I am a Bass Chair!

I am one of only nine faculty, across all of Duke, to be named the 2026 Bass Chair – the honor that recognizes faculty whose teaching and research exemplify Duke’s commitment to undergraduate education.

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