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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
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
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
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
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...
LINDSAY featured on CTV Two: Alberta Primetime
In April 2016, the work of our LINDSAY Virtual Human team has been featured on "Alberta Primetime", a daily news show on CTV Two. See the story in this video. If you have any comments or feedback for us, please visit our Contacts page. We'd love to hear from you!
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...
ASTech 2015 Award!
Alberta Science and Technology Award The LINDSAY Virtual Human team won the 2015 ASTech Award in the category of Innovation in Information and Communications Technology. Dr. Christian Jacob accepted the award on behalf of the LINDSAY team during the ASTech gala at...
LINDSAY VR Heart Flythrough
With our VR Heart Flythrough, we are presenting another example of imagining new ways of presenting and exploring human anatomy. This time, by combining Virtual Reality (VR) with game design and inspirational ideas from the movie "Fantastic Voyage". Areesha Salman, a...