Author Archives: Maria Gorlatova

About Maria Gorlatova

Dr. Maria Gorlatova is the Sternberg Family Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research centers on pervasive computing technologies, with a focus on spatial computing and next-generation augmented reality. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (Summa Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. She spent two years at Princeton University’s Electrical Engineering Department as an Associate Research Scholar and Associate Director of the Princeton University EDGE Lab. Dr. Gorlatova was named one of the N2Women Rising Stars and has received multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), the DARPA Director’s Fellowship, the IEEE ISMAR 2025 Best Paper Award, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications, and research awards from Meta, Cisco, and IBM. She served as the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023, the General Co-Chair of the 2025 NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing, and the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE SenSys 2025.

Duke ECE Faculty Voices: A Real-Life J.A.R.V.I.S. Needs a Watchdog

Duke ECE is featuring my perspective on the role of AI in AR of the future, and on the dire need to employ AI to safeguard the AR of the future, as part of its Faculty Voices: Physical AI series. Full … Continue reading →

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Does Egocentric AI Truly “See What You See And Hear What You Hear”?

I have used this line so many times myself: smart glasses see what you see and hear what you hear. It is well known in the world of egocentric AI and AR; it appeared verbatim on Meta’s quarterly earnings call … Continue reading →

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The Hill I Will Die On: AI Glasses Are A Useful Tool, Not An Interface To Our Entire Lives

The hill I will die on: we will need AI glasses for work, and for helping us with well-defined, specific tasks, long before we will need AI glasses worn continuously, all day every day. Humans already use eyewear extensively as … Continue reading →

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Egocentric AI: The Future Within Reach, With a Sea of Problems Still to Solve

Can you tell that I am wearing smart glasses in this photo? My new toy: RayNeo X3 Pro. Egocentric AI at your fingertips – or pupils? More comfortable to wear than one might expect – I genuinely forget whether I … Continue reading →

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Do We Need New Exam Rules for the Smartglasses Era?

It is definitely happening: students are using smart glasses 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 … 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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