Publications

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Peer-reviewed

Camera placement figure
ISMAR 2026

Navigating the Last Mile: Evaluating Head- and Cane-Mounted Cameras for Egocentric Spatial Awareness

Apurv Varshney, Lucas Nadolskis, Tobias Höllerer, Michael Beyeler

Wayfinding guidance figure
ISMAR 2026

Actionable guidance outperforms map and compass cues in demanding immersive VR wayfinding

Apurv Varshney, Lily M. Turkstra, Jiaxin Su, Mable Zhou, Scott T. Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty, Michael Beyeler

SABER figure
IEEE VR 2026

SABER: Spatial attention, brain, extended reality

Tom Bullock, Emily Machniak, You-Jin Kim, Radha Kumaran, Justin Kasowski, Apurv Varshney, Julia Ram, Melissa M. Hernandez, Stina Johansson, Neil M. Dundon, Tobias Höllerer, Barry Giesbrecht

Scene simplification figure
ACM VRST 2025

Static or temporal? Semantic scene simplification to aid wayfinding in immersive simulations of bionic vision

Justin M. Kasowski, Apurv Varshney, Michael Beyeler

Checkerboard raster figure
J. Neural Engineering 2025

Simulated prosthetic vision confirms checkerboard as an effective raster pattern for epiretinal implants

Justin M. Kasowski, Apurv Varshney, Roksana Sadeghi, Michael Beyeler

Stress navigation figure
Scientific Reports 2024

Stress affects navigation strategies in immersive virtual reality

Apurv Varshney, Mitch Munns, Justin Kasowski, Mantong Zhou, Chuanxiuyue He, Scott Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty, Michael Beyeler

AR Carrom figure
ACM UIST 2021

Flick gesture interaction in augmented reality: AR Carrom

Apurv Varshney, Justin Nilsen, Richa Wadaskar, Misha Sra

Preprints & under review

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Under review · 2026

Adaptive training for navigation under stress: impacts of stress exposure and spatial anxiety

Mable Zhou, Apurv Varshney, Kayla P. Salcedo, Scott T. Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Michael Beyeler, Mary Hegarty

Virtual patient figure
Preprint · 2025

A deep learning framework for predicting functional visual performance in bionic eye users

Jonathan Skaza, Shravan Murlidaran, Apurv Varshney, Ziqi Wen, William Wang, Miguel P. Eckstein, Michael Beyeler

Selected posters

CVPR VizWiz Workshop '25 Evaluating camera placement for last-mile navigation by blind users — Varshney, Nadolskis, Beyeler.
VSS '25 Assessing the efficacy of visual augmentations for high-stress navigation — Turkstra, Varshney, Su, Grafton, Giesbrecht, Hegarty, Beyeler.
VSS '23 Visual navigation under high-stress conditions — Varshney, Munns, Kasowski, Zhou, He, Grafton, Giesbrecht, Hegarty, Beyeler.