The ADC XR Makerspace at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is launching a new weekly seminar series, XR Bytes, that will spotlight graduate research in extended reality (XR) and bring together scholars from across the Institute to explore immersive technologies.

Beginning March 6, the series will take place Fridays from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. inside the Makerspace at ISyE Main (115). Georgia Tech graduate students whose research focuses in XR will lead each session, sharing their research and demonstrating how immersive tools are being applied across disciplines.

The Makerspace, which opened earlier this year,  was created to provide students and faculty with access to XR technologies that support research, experimentation, and collaboration. The space is designed not only to advance technical development, but also to help researchers think critically about how immersive tools can visualize information and enhance real-world applications. Makerspace Captain Steven Yoo, shares that the series aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration while showcasing how XR technologies are being applied to real-world research challenges.

The seminar speakers represent a range of schools across the Institute, including computer science, psychology, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering. The series schedule and topics include:

• March 6: Srikanth Tindivanam Varadharajan (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering) XR for the Sky: Enhancing UAV and UAM Operations
• March 13: Jorge Garcia (ISyE) — Human-in-the-Loop and XR for Context-Rich Industrial Decision-Making
• March 20: Hanna Neroj  (School of Psychology) — Simulating the Future: Experience Prototyping for Emerging Technologies via Multimodal XR
• April 3: Prithiv Premkumar (School of Computer Science) — Motion, Heart Rate, and Haptics: Using XR Devices for Human Monitoring and Regulation
• April 10: Seok Joon Kim (George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering) — AHEAD of Time: Toward Robots That Behave Like Human Companions
• April 17: Alex Yang (School of Computer Science) — LitForager: Exploring Multimodal Literature Foraging Strategies in Immersive Sensemaking
• April 24: Austin Graves (George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering) — Robot-Independent Visual-Tactile XR Teleoperation for Multi-Humanoid Cooperation

All members of the Institute community are invited to attend the weekly seminars. Those interested in staying informed about future programming can RSVP to join the ADC XR Makerspace mailing list.