lPresentation Time: March 8, 2023, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

lPresentation Venue: Tencent Meeting Room ID: 657249598

lSpeaker: Prof. Wei Lei

lPresenter's Biography:

Dr. Wei Lei is a lifelong professor at IISI, Deakin University, Australia. He serves as the Chief Research Scientist, Team Leader, and Project Manager at Tencent Robotics X. His research encompasses multimodal touch rendering for fingertips, palms, and upper limbs (kinesthetic and tactile), interface design for mechanical, embedded systems, hardware/software interfaces, human-computer interaction, and VR/AR/MR-based training simulations. Dr. Wei has rich research experience in touch rendering, interaction, and collaboration, with over 100 published papers (including top-tier journals such as Science Advances) and over 20 filed patents. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics.

lPresentation Overview:

As visual and AI technologies mature, issues previously discussed only in academia, such as Haptics, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI/HMD/HRI), and Extended Reality (XR/AR/MR), are gradually entering industrial and practical applications, integrating into the realm of the metaverse. Companies like Microsoft, Accenture, and Meta are deeply understanding and envisioning the core and extension of the metaverse, bringing new opportunities for innovation and development to related industries. This lecture explores the emergence of the metaverse from the perspective of human evolution and development. It delves into several core technologies, including Haptics, XR, and immersive human-machine interaction, to introduce and anticipate current and future academic and industrial applications in complex scenarios.