Yerba Buena VR, Inc. received a $255,511 National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant to develop a virtual reality streaming solution enabling ultra-high quality 360-degree video with latency under one second. Funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), the September 2022 award supports architecture design, product development research, and prototype testing and validation for a platform addressing current...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $400,000 in funding to Northeastern University to develop advanced algorithms and infrastructure for low-latency edge computing to support high-quality augmented/virtual/mixed reality (XR) applications on mobile devices. The key product deliverables include: (1) Algorithms to optimize wireless base station association, beamforming, and content...
This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of low-cost, live-streaming 360-degree volumetric content capabilities. Blinxel LLC will leverage off-the-shelf hardware to enable the capture of human subjects using multiple depth sensors, compress the streams into a single video feed, and broadcast the content to mobile and extended reality devices using cloud services. The content can then be viewed on...
This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a novel nanolattice material with a low refractive index and high mechanical stiffness for integration into photonic waveguides for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year grant include: (1) optimizing the optical and mechanical properties of the nanolattice...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a collaborative research project led by Tufts University. The project aims to develop an enhanced edge computing architecture and algorithms for low-latency 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) networks to enable high-quality augmented/virtual/mixed reality (XR) applications on mobile devices. The key products and services to be delivered...
This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at New York University to develop efficient computer systems for augmented and virtual reality through a perception-guided approach. Specifically, the researchers will design software-hardware mechanisms to quantitatively model human visual perception and leverage those models across system stacks to achieve an order of magnitude gain in...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will support the development of an easy-to-use virtual reality development toolkit for education. Proximal, LLC will receive $255,990 to create a user-friendly toolkit that enables educators to develop targeted, subject-specific VR educational experiences without extensive programming skills. This aligns with the goals of the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to advance solutions for national challenges...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $295,000 to In Virtualis LLC, a woman-owned small business, aims to develop an extended reality (XR) brain-computer interface (BCI) platform to restore independent activities of daily living for individuals with sensorimotor impairments. The project will create a Unity-based XR BCI development platform, a unifying API for diverse real-time digital signal processing pipelines,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop the theoretical foundations and implementation of a system for providing personalized and scalable collaborative virtual reality (VR) experiences over wireless networks. The $145,209 award to the University of Southern California (USC) will integrate machine learning, wireless networking, and mobile computing to enable high-quality...
This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The $1,000,000 award to Immergo Labs, Inc. supports the development of an immersive virtual reality (VR) platform for remote physical therapy and monitoring. The proposed innovation aims to increase the affordability, accessibility, and accuracy of physical therapy through an embodied telehealth solution with 3D virtual avatars and...