Maya vr returns (#266)

* feat: brings maya back to main projects

* Added Maya to the onboarding paper page and modified the people page

* Removed changes from Gemfile and Gemfile.lock

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Co-authored-by: Sean Perry <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Aviral Agarwal <[email protected]>

Gemfile

@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ gem "wdm", "~> 0.1.1", :platforms => [:mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin]
 
 # Lock `http_parser.rb` gem to `v0.6.x` on JRuby builds since newer versions of the gem
 # do not have a Java counterpart.
-gem "http_parser.rb", "~> 0.6.0", :platforms => [:jruby]
+gem "http_parser.rb", "~> 0.6.0", :platforms => [:jruby]

Gemfile.lock

@@ -148,4 +148,4 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   wdm (~> 0.1.1)
 
 BUNDLED WITH
-   2.5.5
+   2.5.5

_bibliography/onboarding_papers/maya_archeology.bib

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+@Article{Guo2022,
+  author    = {Guo, Kolin and Ramaniyer, Shrutheesh and Sharkey, Tommy},
+  title     = {Digital Preservation of Maya Archaeological Sites Using Virtual Reality},
+  year      = {2022},
+  month     = {June},
+  note      = {Technical Report, University of California, San Diego},
+  abstract  = {There’s an ongoing tension between the preservation of cultural heritage sites and the need for usable land. As a result, there have
+ been several efforts to preserve these sites using current advances in scanning, modeling, and visualization technologies- notably
+ RGB-D cameras, scene reconstruction pipeline, and Virtual Reality (VR). However, these individual technologies have mostly been
+ developed independently, and little effort has been dedicated to integrating them. This paper presents an evolution of an existing
+ system for reconstructing and displaying cultural heritage sites in Virtual Reality environments. To achieve this, we develop a pipeline
+ to (i) track the cameras using visual-inertial SLAM, (ii) perform a 3D reconstruction using registered depth and RGB data, (iii) facilitate
+ loading and displaying the reconstruction in VR, and (iv) create virtual voice-guided tours. We discuss the details of this automated
+ pipeline and demonstrate its ability to take an unskilled user from data capture to an immersive virtual tour without the need for 3rd
+ party or command-line tools by designing a desktop GUI interface. We hope that this automated scanning and reconstruction pipeline
+ will help the digitization and education of cultural heritage sites.},
+  url       = {https://kastner.ucsd.edu/ryan/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/06/admin/maya-vr.pdf},
+}

_data/people.yml

@@ -1645,6 +1645,10 @@
   level: Project Lead
   image: assets/people/l.vonschoenfeldt.jpeg
   start: 2023
+- name: Aviral Agarwal
+  description: Maya Archeology since 2024
+  level: Project Lead
+  image: assets/people/a.agarwal.jpeg
 - name: Ben McCalmon
   description: FishSense Core since 2024
   level: Project Lead

onboarding-papers.md

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ papers:
 - bib_file: mangrove_monitoring
   name: Mangrove Monitoring
   url: /mangrove-monitoring
+- bib_file: maya_archeology
+  name: Maya Archeology
+  url: /maya-archaeology
 - bib_file: radio_telemetry_tracking
   name: Radio Telemetry Tracking
   url: /radio-collar-tracker