Ningyuan Sun
Ph.D. in Virtual & Augmented Reality
My work focuses on how technologies can reshape the way we perceive the world and interact with others. Over ten years of academic and engineering experience in virtual and augmented reality, intelligent wearable devices, and human-AI interaction.
Work
Research Experience
Behavior synchronization and rapport study in VR.
Theory-of-mind game with a virtual agent.
Ph.D. Researcher in DELICIOS
DELICIOS is an international multi-disciplinary research project funded by FWO (G054919N) and FNR (12635165). The goal is to know more about the dynamics underlying user-AI delegation and how it interacts with other novel technologies such as XR.
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XR MUSE framework for networked multi-user studies.
Virtual environment for gravity simulation research.
Post-Doc Researcher in ChronoPilot
ChronoPilot is an international research project funded by EU's Horizon 2020 FET Open research programme (964464). The project aims to alter subjective time experience using XR technologies that engage vision, audition, and haptics.
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Studies on Haptics and Eye Tracking
During my post-doc time, my colleagues and I carried out serveral studies at the VR/AR Lab on haptics-based navigation system with the eye-tracking ability to monitor user states.
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Engineering Projects
A prototype AR system built on Raspberry Pi (with simple IMU-based 3-DoF tracking) that allows for maximal development possibilities and fun.
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A lightweight engine targeting embedded systems with features not well supported by Unity and Godot, e.g., offscreen rendering and streaming textures.
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An explorative project that allows users to see temperature through a headset.
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A "home-made" device for running visual-inertia odometry (VIO) for 6-DoF tracking in augmented reality.
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A fun and challenging project to simulate fluid dynamics using a particle system written in C++.
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A software program that automatically registers individual images and stitches them into a panorama.
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A short cinematic movie made using the Unreal Engine 5.
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