VR/AR/XR - Spatial Computing
The University of Waterloo's XR and spatial computing design team.
Our Projects
Reality From Scratch
Our magnum opus: a VR headset built from open-source principles
VITracker
Building custom hardware for real-time visual-inertial SLAM tracking
North Star
An open-source, birdbath optics-based AR headset built from scratch
Universal Gestures
Using on-device machine learning to recognize hand gestures on Meta Quest
Universal Text
Unity software package for dynamic text representation of a user's virtual environment.
Anima
Unity VR app for exploring life-sized, real-world building scans.
About Us
We venture into the rift between dimensions.
Researching, experimenting, and building.We create real-life interfaces for the virtual world.
Waterloo Reality Labs is the first design team in Canada that offers students hands-on experience with consumer VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) technologies.
About us