Steven LaValle

1968

He is best known for his work on RRT"s, the Oculus Rift, and his book Planning Algorithms, one of the most highly cited texts in the field Academic From 1995 to 1997, he was a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. From 1997 to 2001, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. Since 2001 he has been on the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a full professor In 2012 he was named "University Scholar" among six other professors at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. During 2015, he is featured on displays offering expert perspective in the Robot Revolution exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago). During a leave of absence from the University of Illinois, LaValle started working for in September 2012, a few days after their Kickstarter campaign. He developed head tracking methods for the core software, based on IMUs and computer vision, and led a team of perceptual psychologists to provide principled approaches to virtual reality system calibration and the design of comfortable user experiences. He was a coauthor of the first Oculus SDK Overview. He is a coinventor on two patents. One (with Peter Giokaris) is for perception based predictive tracking for the Oculus Rift, which was crucial in reducing perceived tracking latency. The other is for sensor calibration and filtering methods, which were important for highly accurate, low-latency tracking.

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LaValle received his Bachelor of Science, Mississippi, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990, 1993, and 1995, respectively.

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He is best known for his work on RRT"s, the Oculus Rift, and his book Planning Algorithms, one of the most highly cited texts in the field Academic From 1995 to 1997, he was a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. From 1997 to 2001, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University.

Since 2001 he has been on the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a full professor

In 2012 he was named "University Scholar" among six other professors at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. During 2015, he is featured on displays offering expert perspective in the Robot Revolution exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago).

During a leave of absence from the University of Illinois, LaValle started working for in September 2012, a few days after their Kickstarter campaign. He developed head tracking methods for the core software, based on IMUs and computer vision, and led a team of perceptual psychologists to provide principled approaches to virtual reality system calibration and the design of comfortable user experiences.

He was a coauthor of the first Oculus SDK Overview.

He is a coinventor on two patents. One (with Peter Giokaris) is for perception based predictive tracking for the Oculus Rift, which was crucial in reducing perceived tracking latency. The other is for sensor calibration and filtering methods, which were important for highly accurate, low-latency tracking.

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He served as their principal scientist from March 2013 until the company was acquired by Facebook in July 2014, addressing virtual reality challenges "including sensor fusion, magnetic drift correction, and kinematic modeling" while disseminating the company"s technical achievements in a science blog.

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