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Giant Interactive Cell Project

The Giant Interactive Cell (GIC) project is being developed by Mika Ong and Finn Vamosi. Dr. Christian Jacob and Owen Brierley are overseeing the direction of this research. On July 20th, the lab team presented a work-in-progress demonstration of the GIC to our...

LINDSAY receives Epic MegaGrant

LINDSAY receives Epic MegaGrant

We are delighted to announce that the reviewers at Epic Games have decided to award an Epic MegaGrant to the LINDSAY Virtual Human project. We will build what we call the LINDSAY Body Universe. Stay tuned for further updates ...

LifeBrush at SIGGRAPH 2020

LifeBrush at SIGGRAPH 2020

Dr. Timothy Davison's 3-minute talk won an honourable mention at the 2020 SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward competition. Congratulations to Tim, whose PhD thesis is giving a detailed account of the LifeBrush system he has developed. See the University of Calgary's PRISM...

Exciting Summer Action

Exciting Summer Action

As has now become tradition, we have a passionate group of students working over the summer on their research projects in the LINDSAY Virtual Human lab. Projects directly related to LINDSAY are: Gut-Brain Interactive Simulation & Game Ryan Lee has returned to the...

Talking about Augmented Reality

Talking about Augmented Reality

How do Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality enrich our lives? (Part 2) As part of the Shaw TV's Calgary Now daily show, Kevin Chorney is joined by Christian Jacob, Ph.D and Markus Santoso, Ph.D from the University of Calgary along with Russ Dawson & Radu Muresan...

LINDSAY on TEDx Calgary

LINDSAY on TEDx Calgary

Note: As of October 2016, this TEDx Talk is now available here. We feel honoured to be part of TEDx Calgary! The wonderful team at TEDx Calgary had invited Dr. Christian Jacob to join the group of speakers for an outstanding event on Saturday, May 7th, 2016, hosted by...

anARtomy featured @ META

anARtomy featured @ META

Our work on using augmented reality technology is now published on the META Blog page, featuring Drs. Markus Santoso and Christian Jacob, who demonstrate the LINDSAY aARtomy app. The application enables any physical 3D space to be enhanced, i.e., augmented by virtual...