Category Archives: Publications and Demonstrations

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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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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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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2025 in the Duke I3T Lab: Students, Systems, and Community

In 2025, two Duke I3T Lab members received their PhDs and moved on to exciting careers in industry: Dr. Sarah Eom joined Exponent as a Biomedical Engineering Consultant; Dr. Lin Duan joined NVIDIA as an XR-AI Engineer. There were several exciting developments in … Continue reading

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From Gaming Gear to ICU Rehabilitation: Bringing XR into Clinical Practice

The November 2025 issue of Duke I/O Magazine includes an article titled “Transforming Reality: How Gaming Gear is Impacting Health Care,” featuring a lovely summary of our ongoing collaboration with the Duke University School of Nursing. Together, we are designing … Continue reading

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Three Papers Appearing at IEEE ISMAR 2025

Three Duke I3T papers are appearing at IEEE ISMAR 2025: XR Reality Check: What Commercial Devices Deliver for Spatial Tracking evaluates tracking capabilities of 5 state-of-the-art XR devices (spoiler alert: Apple Vision Pro wins; also, all platforms meet perceptual requirements … Continue reading

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Appearing at IEEE INFOCOM’23: Edge-Assisted Adaptive SLAM with Resource Constraints

AdaptSLAM, our recent work led by Ying Chen, explores new approaches for adapting edge computing-supported Visual and Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V- and VI-SLAM) to computation and communication resource constraints. Adapt SLAM’s system architecture. Our design centers on the … Continue reading

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ACM UbiComp 2022 Best Poster Award

A poster we presented at ACM UbiComp 2022 in Cambridge, UK, titled “IoT-Enabled Environment Illuminance Optimization for Augmented Reality“, received the ACM UbiComp’22 Best Poster Award. [ Poster submission  ] [ Poster presented at the conference ] This poster outlines a system that uses a smart … Continue reading

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Two papers appearing at IEEE ISMAR’22

We are delighted to have two of lab’s papers appear at the top AR/MR conference, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2022 (acceptance rate: 21%). In a paper led by PhD student Sarah Eom titled NeuroLens: Augmented … Continue reading

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AI Institute I3T Lab Showcase

At the Athena AI Institute‘s 1st Annual Summit held at Duke University in August 2022, 4 members of the lab presented posters and showcased the work of the lab during the I3T Lab Tour. The projects showcased during the summit covered … Continue reading

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