Chicago Tribune (April 21) -- Steve LaValle, a computer science professor at Illinois and former chief scientist of Oculus, is a bit of a virtual reality hipster. While virtual reality appears to be on the verge of taking off commercially, augmented reality – a mashup of your physical surroundings and virtual images and information – is a ways off, LaValle says. Also: Chicago Inno (April 21), ASEE FirstBell (April 25).