{"id":711,"date":"2017-09-15T13:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/?p=711"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:27:45","slug":"state-of-the-art-in-vr-guest-lecture-by-steven-laville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/state-of-the-art-in-vr-guest-lecture-by-steven-laville\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Art in VR \u2013 Guest Lecture by Steven LaVille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile Systems Programming course at Aalto presents a guest lecture about \u201cState of the Art in VR\u201d by Steven LaVille, Vice President and Chief Scientist of VR\/AR\/MR at Huawei Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>LaVille\u2019s research interests are robotics, virtual reality, sensing, planning and human-computer interaction. He was an early founder and the chief scientist of Oculus VR and currently an active angel investor and adviser to startup companies and venture capitalists.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has a PhD in Electrical Engineering. He has published over 150 scientific articles and three books, called Planning Algorithms (2006), Sensing and Filtering (2012) and Virtual Reality (2017). The books are available online for free.<\/p>\n<p>His lecture will be at the CS building, T1, on Tuesday 19<sup>th<\/sup> of September at 14-16.\u00a0All Aalto people welcome!<\/p>\n<p>PS. You can also catch him on the same week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindtrek.org\/2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mindtrek 2017<\/a>\u00a0in Tampere where he is a speaker with a topic: \u201dVirtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality: Where is it All Going?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile Systems Programming course at Aalto presents a guest lecture about \u201cState of the Art in VR\u201d by Steven LaVille, Vice President and Chief Scientist of VR\/AR\/MR at Huawei Technologies. LaVille\u2019s research interests are robotics, virtual reality, sensing, planning and human-computer interaction. He was an early founder and the chief scientist of Oculus VR and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,1],"tags":[212,184],"equipmentcategories":[],"facilitycategories":[],"productcategories":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-extended-reality","category-news","tag-virtual","tag-virtual-reality"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"mfb_rest_fields":["title","cc_featured_image_caption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"equipmentcategories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/equipmentcategories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"facilitycategories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facilitycategories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"productcategories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productcategories?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}