GRO

Virtual Reality Training on Issues of Youth Firearm Possession. PI. Tang. $20,000. 8/5/2024-8/4/2025. Funded by the God.Restoring.Order (GRO) Community, this research project will develop two VR scenarios that simulate environments designed to educate youth on applying critical skills in risky situations. Team: Ming Tang, XR-Lab, Aaron Mallory, GRO. The XR-Lab is excited to collaborate with the […]

Redefining Space in the Age of Spatial Computing

ARCH 4001. Fall. 2024 Redefining Space in the Age of Spatial Computing  Ming Tang Professor, Registered Architect, NCARB, LEED AP, Director of Extended Reality Lab. UC Digital Futures. Leadership committee, Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS); School of Architecture and Interior Design, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati In the age […]

paper on XR conference

Two papers were presented and published at the 2024 International Conference on eXtended Reality. XR Salento 2024. Tang, Ming, Mikhail Nikolaenko, Evv Boerwinkle, Samuel Obafisoye, Aayush Kumar, Mohsen Rezayat, Sven Lehmann, and Tamara Lorenz. “Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Traditional Training vs. Immersive Training: A Case Study of Building Safety & Emergency Training.” Paper presented at the […]

GenAI+AR Siemens

Automatic Scene Creation for Augmented Reality Work Instructions Using Generative AI. Siemens. PI. Ming Tang. co-PI: Tianyu Jiang. $25,000. UC. 4/1/2024-12/31/2024 Sponsor: Siemens through UC MME Industry 4.0/5.0 Institute  

Poster in AHFE conference

Nancy Daraiseh, Aaron Vaughn, Ming Tang, Mikhail Nikolaenko, Madeline Aeschbury, Alycia Bachtel, Camryn Backman, Chunyan Liu, Maurizio Macaluso . Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Behavioral Staff Training for Interacting with Aggressive Psychiatric Patients. Poster. The 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024). Nice, France, July 24-27, 2024. Objective: To conduct a pilot […]

UC UPRISE

XR-Lab’s project was selected to join the Undergraduates Pursuing Research in Science and Engineering (UPRISE) Program UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING May 6 – July 26, 2024   Project title: Reinforcement Learning (RL) system in Game Engine Student: Mikhail Nikolaenko. UC. PI: Ming Tang.  This project proposes the development of a sophisticated reinforcement […]

AE studio 2024

AE Studio 3004, Restaurant Design   Spring 2024. Instructors: Ming Tang, Samira Sarabandikachyani This studio serves as a comprehensive introduction to designing a building. 

Honors Seminar student projects

“Human-Computer Interaction in the Age of Extended Reality & Metaverse” student projects Spring. 2024.  UC Under the guidance of Ming Tang, Director of the XR-Lab at Digital Futures and DAAP, UC, this honors seminar course has propelled students through an immersive journey into the realm of XR. The course encompasses Extended Reality, Metaverse, and Digital […]

Digital Twin of Cincinnati

A realtime flythrough demo for Digital Twin of City Cincinnati Digital Futures Building at the University of Cincinnati Destroy Alien buildings near the UC campus. Project developed by students Cooper Pflaum and Nishanth Chidambaram. 

P&G Metaverse

Title: Leveraging Metaverse Platforms for Enhanced Global Professional Networking – Phase 1 Ming Tang, Principal Investigator Amount: $32,416 Funding: P&G Digital Accelerator. Gotal: Metaverse technologies for global engagement. Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Human. Immersive visulzation.  P&G Team. : Elsie Urdaneta, Sam Azeba. Paula Saldarriaga UC Team: Ming Tang, Students: Nathaniel Brunner, Ahmad Alrefai, Sid Urankar    

Fluid Sim in VR

Fluid Simulation in Virtual Reality. Unreal Engine. Collision test with hand. 

Digital Twin, LLM & IIOT

IIOT for legacy and intelligent factory machines with XR and LLM feedback with a Digital Twin demonstration of real-time IOT for architecture/building applications using Omniverse. PIs: Sam Anand, Ming Tang $40,000. UC Industry 4.0/5.0 Institute Consortium Research Project: 01.2024-01.2025 Environment Sensors for Digital Twin model. XR-Lab and SM-Lab at Digital Futures Building. Integration of Reality capture, IOT, […]