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AI & Creative Tools

Instead of Re-Prompting a Writing AI, Pull a Slider Toward the Change You Can't Name Yet

Oct 27, 9:55 AM · 2 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Crossing a Line Can Select Faster Than Clicking a Filter — Except When It Can't

Oct 27, 9:40 AM · 1 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Does a VR Funeral Let You Say Goodbye? A Study Compares Formats for Being There

Oct 23, 8:10 AM · 4 min read

Creative Coding

Dancing Diffusion Turns a Prompt Into a Program With Addressable Steps

Oct 21, 6:10 AM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

PhonoBridge Reads Silently Mouthed Words Off the Face, at a 24.77% Error Rate

Oct 20, 6:50 PM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

CAESAR Attacks Its Own Users to Find Out What Breaks Them

Oct 20, 5:45 PM · 4 min read

Research & Innovation

Too Long to Watch, Too Short to Leave

Oct 20, 4:40 PM · 5 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

SplatXR Wants to Make Gaussian Splats First-Class Citizens in Mixed Reality

Oct 19, 3:55 PM · 3 min read

Creative Coding

Teaching a Letterform's Style to a Human Pose

Oct 19, 3:20 PM · 3 min read

Research & Innovation

A Paper That Treats the Prompt as the Wrong Question

Oct 19, 2:45 PM · 3 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Trinketry Lets You Keep the Fragments, Not the Whole Image

Oct 19, 2:10 PM · 4 min read

Interactive Art

Four Years of Interviews Say Museum AI Is Moving From Prefab to Improvised

Oct 19, 1:35 PM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

A Conversational Model That Keeps Gesturing While It Is Listening

Oct 18, 8:35 AM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

A Robot That Decides Where to Point the Projector

Oct 18, 8:20 AM · 4 min read

Research & Innovation

500 Real Fabrics, Each Shot 580 Times by a Robot, Released Under CC BY 4.0

Oct 18, 8:05 AM · 4 min read

Digital Artists

A Tool That Generates Throwaway Portfolios So Artists Can See Their Own Work as a Stranger Would

Oct 17, 7:10 AM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

A 3D Printed Neighbourhood With Swappable Futures and an LED Sun on a Rail

Oct 16, 6:00 PM · 5 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

XR Interfaces Break in Rooms You Cannot Test From a Desk. AdapTest Moves the Authoring Into the Headset

Oct 16, 5:00 PM · 5 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

AR Freed Their Eyes From the Screen. Eye Tracking Showed the Attention Went to the Hologram Instead

Oct 15, 6:15 AM · 5 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Making the Waterfall in a Captured Splat Scene Actually Flow, Without Simulating Anything

Oct 12, 2:45 PM · 3 min read

Research & Innovation

Research Roundup: Judging Generated Worlds, Faking Fluid Physics, and Noise You Can Control in Time

Oct 12, 1:45 PM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Instead of Asking an LLM to Act Like a Disabled User, Build an Inspectable Model and Simulate It

Oct 11, 10:30 AM · 4 min read

Digital Artists

An Agent That Plans a Subdivision Cage, Inspects Its Own Result, and Rolls Back When It Made Things Worse

Oct 11, 10:15 AM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Stop Re-Rendering the Splat Scene for Every Small Camera Move and Reuse the Last Frame Instead

Oct 10, 8:05 AM · 4 min read

Research & Innovation

LLM-Generated Interfaces Pass the Brief and Repeat Each Other, With Creative Range at 0.581 Against 0.902 for Humans

Oct 10, 7:50 AM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Reconstructing Dense 3D Human Point Clouds From Body Heat, Using One Commodity Thermal Array

Oct 10, 7:35 AM · 4 min read

Digital Artists

Turning a Static Gaussian Splat Into a Scene That Moves Forever, Seamlessly, From Any Angle

Oct 10, 7:20 AM · 5 min read

Digital Artists

Previsualizing Where a Generative Reshoot Will Have to Invent, While You Can Still Shoot the Pickup

Oct 9, 9:45 AM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

A Pen That Works Out Whether You're Writing, Highlighting or Erasing, and Learns Your Habits

Oct 9, 9:25 AM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Judder in Peripheral Vision Can Be Masked by Shifting the Phase of Noise Instead of Rendering More Frames

Oct 9, 9:05 AM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

A Wrist-Worn Infrared Sensor Turns the Bare Palm Into an Absolute Coordinate Surface

Oct 8, 10:20 AM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Looking at an AR Assistant Beats a Wake Word, but Nobody Notices When It Stops Listening

Oct 8, 10:05 AM · 4 min read

Community

CTM's Spatial Audio Lab Treats Space as a Compositional Element, and Closes October 15

Sep 26, 12:25 PM · 3 min read

Research & Innovation

KaiNinja Generates 3D Models That Come Apart

Sep 22, 4:00 PM · 3 min read

Emerging Interfaces

TherMosaic Makes Heat Feel Faster Than It Actually Is

Sep 22, 3:00 PM · 3 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

GaussAnything Spends 90% of a Headset's Budget on the One Object You're Looking At

Sep 21, 3:00 PM · 3 min read

Research & Innovation

Nobody Had Ever Captured a Real Splash in 3D, So These Researchers Built the Dataset First

Sep 20, 10:10 AM · 3 min read

Research & Innovation

Streaming Point Clouds Live Is Still Hard — DELUGE Takes Apart the Problem

Sep 19, 8:05 AM · 3 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

FenceXR Replays Your Own Movement Back at You, in the Place You Made It

Sep 19, 8:00 AM · 3 min read

Digital Artists

Turning a Painting Into 3D Is Impossible — So This Paper Prints the Ambiguity Instead

Sep 18, 8:20 AM · 3 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Teaching Stage Lighting in VR, With an LLM Turning What the Instructor Says Into What Students See

Sep 17, 8:15 AM · 3 min read

Research & Innovation

HairCS Converts Game-Ready Hair Cards Back Into Millions of Actual Strands

Sep 17, 8:00 AM · 3 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Blur One Eye, Sharpen the Other: A VR Trick That Exploits How the Brain Fuses Images

Sep 16, 8:15 PM · 3 min read

Emerging Interfaces

A Wristband That Feels Your Tendons Can Tell How Hard You're Pressing

Sep 16, 8:05 PM · 3 min read

Research & Innovation

Reading Research Papers: Getting Started

Sep 16, 7:45 AM · 4 min read

Research & Innovation

Disney Research's Neural Render Proxies Relight Path-Traced Scenes at Interactive Speed

Jul 21, 7:00 PM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

DeepMind Genie 3: Generating Explorable, Interactive Worlds From a Single Image

Jul 15, 8:00 PM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

This Wearable Controls a Robot Arm While You're Running, Shaking, or Riding Ocean Waves

Jul 14, 12:00 PM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

This Fabrication Method Treats an Invisible Electric Field as the Actual Design Material

Jul 13, 5:00 PM · 2 min read

Emerging Interfaces

This Brain Implant Is Thin Enough to Handle Like Wet Tissue Paper — and It Talks to Your Devices Over Wi-Fi

Jul 13, 11:30 AM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

An Academic Workshop Is Trying to Define What 'AI Art' Even Means When the AI Is an Agent, Not a Prompt Box

Jul 12, 12:00 PM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

A SIGGRAPH Best Paper Replaces Slider-Tweaking With an AI That Learns What You're Trying to Get

Jul 11, 12:00 PM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

A New Research Framework Wants Your Coffee Mug to Be Part of the Gesture

Jul 10, 5:00 PM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

CHI 2026's Best Papers Aren't Asking If AI Can Be Creative — They're Asking Who Gets Credit

Jul 10, 12:00 PM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

An MIT Media Lab Device Turns Old Photographs Into Fragrances for Memories You Never Had

Jul 6, 10:00 AM · 2 min read

Research & Innovation

A SIGGRAPH 2026 Best Paper Solves a Problem Every 3D-to-Line-Art Tool Runs Into

Jun 30, 9:30 AM · 3 min read