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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
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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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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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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Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech (CHCI@VT) Headliner Seminar
Possible at Last: Using Large Multimodal Models to Evaluate and Secure Mixed-Reality Experiences – this was the title of the talk I gave as part of the VT Center for Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. Sincere thanks to the organizers for the opportunity … Continue reading
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Edge Computing’s Next Decade: Intelligent Spatial Systems – and a Responsibility to Get Them Right
It was my genuine pleasure to get to share my thoughts about the past and future of edge computing at the ACM Symposium on Edge Computing 2025 panel, “Looking Back and Moving Forward: 10 Years of Edge Computing.” My highest-level … Continue reading
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Invited Talk at Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2025
Speaking at Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA, a premier industry XR for a second time – what a thrill! Last time I presented at AWE was back in 2021, when my talk was about edge- and IoT-supported AR. This time … Continue reading
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Apple is coming to Durham
Delightful news today: Apple is planning to build a brand new campus here in Durham, spending 1 bln dollars over 10 years, and creating 3,000 highly skilled jobs, in particularly in AI, ML, and software engineering. Exciting news for the … Continue reading
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Improv Training Helps to Enjoy The Randomness of Public Speaking
Now living in a lush quiet suburban New Jersey Princeton area, I miss exactly two things about New York City: the food scene and my improv classes. If I move to a big city yet again, improv training will be … Continue reading
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Shelved Project Ara: Would Have Made a Great Research Project
Google’s project Ara, aimed at creating a smart phone consisting of easily interchanged modules, is officially shelved. Ara should have been a research project, and not a productization attempt. As a product, it was always questionable: it’s hard to figure out what … Continue reading
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