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2025

Toward Understanding Display Size for FPS Esports Aiming
Arjun Madhusudan, Josef Spjut, Benjamin Watson, Seth Schneider, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
Pushing the Limits? Frame Rate Benefits to Players for up to 500 Hz in First Person Shooter Games
Samin Shahriar Tokey, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Mark Claypool

2024

Variable Frame Timing Affects Perception of Smoothness in First-Person Gaming
Devi Klein, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
On Smoothly Varying Frame Timing in First-Person Gaming
UC Santa Barbara and NVIDIA, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
FoundationPose: Unified 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects
Bowen Wen, Wei Yang, Jan Kautz, Stan Birchfield
Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides
Manu Gopakumar, Gun-Yeal Lee, Suyeon Choi, Brian Chao, Yifan Peng, Jonghyun Kim, Gordon Wetzstein

2023

Constant Field of View Display Size Effects on First-Person Aiming Time
Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
Live 3D Portrait: Real-Time Radiance Fields for Single-Image Portrait View Synthesis
Alexander Trevithick, Matthew Chan, Michael Stengel, Eric R. Chan, Chao Liu, Zhiding Yu, Sameh Khamis, Manmohan Chandraker, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Koki Nagano
BundleSDF: Neural 6-DoF Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Objects
Bowen Wen, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis, Stephen Tyree, Thomas Müller, Alex Evans, Dieter Fox, Jan Kautz, Stan Birchfield

2022

The Esports Frontier: Rendering, Interaction and Display
Benjamin Watson, Josef Spjut, Byungjoo Lee, Greg Ward

2021

AdaptiBrush: Adaptive General and Predictable VR Ribbon Brush
Enrique Rosales, Chrystiano Araujo, Jafet Rodriguez, Nicholas Vining, Dongwook Yoon, Alla Sheffer
A distributed, decoupled system for losslessly streaming dynamic light probes to thin clients
Michael Stengel, Zander Majercik, Ben Boudaoud, Morgan McGuire
Optimizing Image Quality for Holographic Near-eye Displays with Michelson Holography
Suyeon Choi, Jonghyun Kim, Yifan Peng, Gordon Wetzstein

2020

Post-Render Warp with Late Input Sampling Improves Aiming Under High Latency Conditions
Joohwan Kim, Pyarelal Knowles, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Morgan McGuire
Prescription AR: a fully-customized prescription-embedded augmented reality display
Jui-Yi Wu, Jonghyun Kim
Patch scanning displays: spatiotemporal enhancement for displays
Kaan Akşit

2019

Latency of 30 ms Benefits First Person Targeting Tasks More Than Refresh Rate Above 60 Hz
Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Kamran Binaee, Jonghyun Kim, Zander Majercik, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke, Joohwan Kim
Reading Speed Decreases for Fast Readers Under Gaze-Contingent Rendering
Rachel Albert, Angelica Godinez, David Luebke
Esports Arms Race: Latency and Refresh Rate for Competitive Gaming Tasks
Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Morgan McGuire, Zander Majercik, Ben Boudaoud, Rachel Albert, David Luebke
Foveated AR: Dynamically-Foveated Augmented Reality Display
Jonghyun Kim, Youngmo Jeong, Michael Stengel, Kaan Akşit, Rachel Albert, Ben Boudaoud, Trey Greer, Joohwan Kim, Ward Lopes, Zander Majercik, Peter Shirley, Josef Spjut, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
Matching Prescription & Visual Acuity: Towards AR for Humans
Jonghyun Kim, Michael Stengel, Jui-Yi Wu, Ben Boudaoud, Josef Spjut, Kaan Akşit, Rachel Albert, Youngmo Jeong, Trey Greer, Ward Lopes, Zander Majercik, Peter Shirley, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
Best in Show Award - Emerging Technology in SIGGRAPH 2019
Near-Eye Display and Tracking Technologies for Virtual and Augmented Reality
George Alex Koulieris, Kaan Akşit, Michael Stengel, Rafał K. Mantiuk, Katerina Mania
NVGaze: An Anatomically-Informed Dataset for Low-Latency, Near-Eye Gaze Estimation
Joohwan Kim, Michael Stengel, Alexander Majercik, Shalini De Mello, David Dunn, Samuli Laine, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke
Manufacturing Application-Driven Foveated Near-Eye Displays
Kaan Akşit, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Kishore Rathinavel, Youngmo Jeong, Rachel Albert, Henry Fuchs, David Luebke

2018

FocusAR: Auto-focus Augmented Reality Eyeglasses for both Real World and Virtual Imagery
Praneeth Chakravarthula, David Dunn, Kaan Akşit, Henry Fuchs
Towards Virtual Reality Infinite Walking: Dynamic Saccadic Redirection
Qi Sun, Anjul Patney, Li-Yi Wei, Omer Shapira, Jingwan Lu, Paul Asente, Suwen Zhu, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke, Arie Kaufman

2017

Near-Eye Varifocal Augmented Reality Display using See-Through Screens
Kaan Akşit, Ward Lopes, Jonghyun Kim, Peter Shirley, David Luebke
Perceptually-Guided Foveation for Light Field Displays
Qi Sun, Fu-Chung Huang, Joohwan Kim, Li-Yi Wei, David Luebke, Arie Kaufman
Near-eye Light Field Holographic Rendering with Spherical Waves for Wide Field of View Interactive 3D Computer Graphics
Liang Shi, Fu-Chung Huang, Ward Lopes, Wojciech Matusik, David Luebke
Latency Requirements for Foveated Rendering in Virtual Reality
Rachel Albert, Anjul Patney, David Luebke, Joohwan Kim
Membrane AR: Varifocal, Wide-Field-of-View Augmented Reality Display from Deformable Membranes
David Dunn, Kaan Akşit, David Luebke
Wide Field Of View Varifocal Near-Eye Display Using See-Through Deformable Membrane Mirrors
David Dunn, Kaan Akşit, David Luebke