Zoom conveys visual signals about gaze behavior, but they are spurious. In a new paper, I discuss the problem as a general lack of directionality, and show that using display technology that simulates motion parallax is necessary and sufficient to fix it. jov.arvojournals.org/issues.…

I (@NTroje ) am currently spending a sabbatical year with the Konstanz Collective Behaviour group. It's an amazing experience. Here is @tomscott's take on a current experiment. youtu.be/KRIBVykhpC4

Adam Bebko and Anne Thaler gave a very well crafted tutorial on bmlTUX today @IEEEVR conference. If you missed it, check out the recording on YouTube: youtu.be/-1dh_U5RcKw. Starts at -4:56. @vistayorku @YorkUScience

BioMotionLab is employing. We are looking for a full time developer with experience in both Unity and iOS development, particularly ARKit. If you are @IEEEVR this week, feel free to talk to Niko Troje, Adam Bebko or Anne Thaler. Or just check out biomotionlab.ca/join/

BML members Adam Bebko and Anne Thaler are presenting new tools @IEEEVR. Here is the teaser for tomorrow's presentation on a tool that animates AMASS data in Unity. Poster session starts at 10am EST. youtube.com/watch?v=5uyAHu2o… @vistayorku, @YorkUScience

Sia Eftekharifar just defended his PhD thesis on the role of motion parallax and binocular disparity on presence, cybersickness, and restoration in VR. New papers coming soon. Congratulations @SiaEftekharifar.

As the new term has started there are new students, too: Andres and Romina are new 4th year honours thesis students, Ashley joins as MSc candidate, Viswajit who's been with us as an RA is now also an MSc student. Welcome all! @vistayorku @YorkUScience

BML graduate student Saeed Ghorbani leads publication of new method for realistic human motion modelling with natural variation to be used for crowd animation and other applications. Paper will be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH/EG SCA @vistayorku @YorkUScience diglib.eg.org/handle/10.1111…

Another new paper from BML: Those who look down a virtual cliff in #VR know that they are perfectly safe. Yet, their body responds with real fear. Sia Eftekharifar investigates what drives that response. @vistayorku, @YorkUScience @CentreforVisio1 @Sia_Eft ingentaconnect.com/content/i…

New paper! Our toolbox that turns Unity into a tool to design and execute factorial, trial-based experiments in Unity3D just appeared as a journal article in i-Perception. Congratulations to Adam Bebko! @vistayorku, @YorkUScience, @PerceptionSAGE, @unity3d biomotionlab.ca/tux/