After the Ph.D. I felt that my time in the academic world was over, and I wanted to do more meaningful things in life. The first real full-time job in the industry was with realworld-one (yes, lowecased), a Germany-based spin-off of the more famous IKA. RWO, as it’s called among friends, wanted to create a …
In 2018 the WorldHaptics conference published a call to action on their websites: universities were asked to design a VR project that would increment the way haptics is perceived in immersive environments, and given that VR and haptics were the two major areas of expertise of our department, we decided to take up the fight …
Just like the modern theater, we were approached by people representing an institution that wanted to embed technology in their daily workflow. In this particular case, the institution is a renowned medical clinic that helps children and young adults with mental illnesses. They won a grant to improve their tech arsenal and decided to work …
One of the perks of working in a public institution is that you get to work with people with different expertises, all trying to put something digital in their daily working lives. In one of these very common occurrences, we got contacted by “La Pergola” theater in Florence, as they were hosting some international schools …