Most Innovative Use of XR

Sponsored by: .auDA

School: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Awarded for the most creative and transformative application of extended reality technologies, sponsored by .au Domain Administration.

ApparentlyAR

by  Pascal Tauran, Christophe Weng, Najla Putri, Benjamin Ghahramani, Yugansh Pancholi, Faraihan Adityawarman

Supervisor(s): Nathan Nunes, Julia Drugova, Thilina Halloluwa, Mashhuda Glencross, Jason Weigel

Data Visualisation tool in the Augmented Reality space that allows grade 8-10 students under the Australian curriculum to improve data literacy and analysis.

Design and Development of an Interactive Augmented Reality Educational Application

by  Airyl Harridzuan Bin Suaidi

Supervisor(s): Dr Nell Baghaei

An interactive mobile application designed to enhance chemistry education through augmented reality (AR). Using Unity and Vuforia, the app allows students to scan printed visuals to explore 3D molecular structures and chemical reactions.

Loco-Manipulation for Quadruped Robot: Deploying RL Policies on Unitree Go2

by  Zhizhen Zhang, Steph Li

Supervisor(s): Dr Yadan Luo, Prof Helen Huang

Deploy reinforcement-learned full-body control on a Unitree Go2 to unify locomotion and manipulation. PPO policies are adapted with Unitree SDK2 on Jetson Orin, a VR/WebRTC interface enables parallel control, and sim-to-real performance is evaluated across tasks.