Project Grant 2215042
- This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at Penn State University to develop new virtual reality computing techniques and GPU hardware designs for mobile devices. Specifically, the three-year award aims to minimize the amount of VR computation through identifying redundancy among rendered frames for different users and reusing frames when possible. It will also investigate VR frame tiling...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $457,105 project grant to The University of Texas at San Antonio under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research into reducing cognitive demands and safety risks for users of mobile augmented and virtual reality technologies. Specifically, the research team will study how mobile augmented and virtual reality headsets impact user attention and symptoms of sickness while...
- This $738,652 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support research into improving the safety and usability of mobile augmented and virtual reality technologies. The grantee, the University of California, Santa Barbara, will investigate how these immersive head-mounted displays affect users' attention, symptoms of motion sickness, and situational awareness when worn while walking. Researchers will collect...
- This $599,848 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports research to reduce cybersickness in virtual reality (VR) experiences. The project aims to study how performing simple distraction tasks, such as listening to music or solving puzzles, can mitigate the nausea, headaches, and dizziness that many users experience when using VR technology. The research will test different task...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to develop research infrastructure to enhance human training through AI-driven task environments integrating humans with virtual scene simulations and multi-modal sensorimotor interactions. The $150,000 award to The Pennsylvania State University will fund research to: 1) establish an edge-assisted mixed-reality infrastructure...
- Purdue University was awarded a $424,434 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 to develop a split software architecture enabling high-quality mixed reality on commodity mobile devices. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and...
- 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...
- Purdue University received a two-year, $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop "Super Reality" immersive visualization interfaces. The award aims to design and refine computational camera models that project 3D datasets onto 2D images in a way that removes line-of-sight restrictions, allowing users to preview occluded regions from their current viewpoint without...
- This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, supports research to address security and privacy challenges in emerging metaverse ecosystems. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: 1) developing innovative defense mechanisms to protect digital mapping and synchronization against adversarial manipulation; 2) creating novel privacy-preserving distributed...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $600,000 project grant to the University of Pittsburgh under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support research into software-hardware architecture co-design for enabling true virtual reality experiences on mobile devices. The University of Pittsburgh will develop new virtual reality computing techniques and GPU hardware designs to minimize the amount of VR computation needed. Researchers will investigate VR frame tiling and the potential of heterogeneous mobile hardware like AI accelerators to enable image upscaling. This work aims to fully understand and utilize the close correlation between VR software systems and hardware components to provide high-quality virtual reality with reduced energy consumption on resource-constrained mobile devices. Findings could facilitate widespread adoption of VR and benefit society.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 6/22/22 |