FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality

The FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality was founded at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. It was established with generous support from the HTC Corporation and the Faith Hope & Love Foundation, both co-founded by UC Berkeley alumna Cher Wang and her husband, Wenchi Chen. The mission of the FHL Vive Center is to sponsor fundamental research and high-impact applications in the emerging fields of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence – and to serve as the central hub across the Berkeley campus facilitating the deployment of disruptive VR, AR, and AI technologies for cross-disciplinary research and education. The Center aims to achieve these goals by offering seed grants to our faculty, supervising and facilitating student research activities, and fostering external industry partnerships with other stakeholders. Current programs include Berkeley Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR), established in 2019 to advance solutions of autonomous systems, intelligent machines, and human-in-the-loop control for extreme robotics applications. The multi-faceted program includes the ROAR Academy, a STEM program for K-12 students, and the AI Racing Tech team, which races full-size driverless racecars against other university teams in the international Indy Autonomous Challenge.