eXtended Reality Lab | UC Digital Futures

Digital Futures High Performance Computing Center

The Digital Futures (DF) High Performance Computing (HPC) center provides the tools, talent and training necessary to accelerate computational and data-enabled research and knowledge creation.

UC’s HPC and HPDA (High Performance Data Analytics) supercomputer, popular open-source data analysis software packages, high-speed data transfer tools and integrated high-speed storage environment are available to project teams and collaborators. These tools, and others, can be used for proof-of-concept projects, testbeds for new ideas, code benchmarking, interactive analysis and data sharing/reproducibility.

Talented research computing professionals are available to help you scale your workflows from workstation to HPC, optimize your code and take advantage of the massive processing power available in the GPUs for your modeling and simulation, ML and AI projects.

The eXtended Reality Lab pioneers VR, AR, and MR to revolutionize empathy, training, and visualization across diverse fields.

TEAM CAPABILITIES

AR/VR/XR

Data and Decision Science

Digital Twins and Simulation

Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation

Ming Tang

Director

eXtended Reality Lab

About

The XR Lab explores and expands how people engage with virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality through real-time visualization, virtual characters, video games, and simulated scenarios. The lab brings together designers, artists, engineers, computer and social scientists to study and develop immersive media. The team investigates the interactive Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Metaverse (VAM) approaches to design, create, evaluate, and experience everything from building construction, job training, driving safety, and entertainment.

Research projects include using VAM for building empathy and cognitive embodiment, architectural and construction visualization, police training, driving simulation, healthcare training, digital twin technology, biometric data collection, eye-tracking, hand-tracking, crowd behavior analysis, and 3D content creation.