Publications associées à Standardized Virtual Reality, are we there yet ?

From finger animation to full-body embodiment of avatars with different morphologies and proportions

VR (Virtual Reality) is a real-time simulation that creates the subjective illusion of being in a virtual world. This thesis explores how integrating the user's body and fingers can be achieved and beneficial for the user to experience VR. At the advent of ...

EPFL2023

Virtual reality enabled building-data management through the combination of a fully integrated IFC-BIM model and an IoT-based building management system

Laurent Deschamps, Jean-Philippe Bacher, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Alexandre Denis Stoll

Professionals involved in building construction and monitoring increasingly implement new practices made available by Building Information Modelling (BIM), Virtual Reality (VR) and the Internet of Things (IoT). In spite of numerous efforts, most methods in ...

2021

Reconciling Being in-Control vs. Being Helped for the Execution of Complex Movements in VR

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

Performing motor tasks in virtual environments is best achieved with motion capture and animation of a 3D character that participants control in real time and perceive as being their avatar in the virtual environment. A strong Sense of Embodiment (SoE) for ...

IEEE2019

Body-machine interfaces for non-homologous human-machine interactions

Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt

Virtual reality (VR), the interactive experience of being immersed in a simulated environment, has seen a tremendous development in the last years. Numerous applications came into being, ranging from flight simulators through a virtual ascent of Mount Ever ...

EPFL2019

Adequacy of Immersive Virtual Reality for the Perception of Daylit Spaces: Comparison of Real and Virtual Environments

Marilyne Andersen, Kynthia Chamilothori, Jan Wienold

This article presents a novel experimental method that uses a virtual reality (VR) headset, aiming to provide an alternative environment for the conduction of subjective assessments of daylit spaces. This method can overcome the difficulty of controlling t ...

2018

Methods for using immersive virtual reality for experimental studies in lighting research

Marilyne Andersen, Kynthia Chamilothori, Jan Wienold

Due to the growing popularity of virtual reality (VR) as a tool for conducting subjective experiments, we propose a session addressing methodological concerns and good practices for the use of VR in lighting research, going further than a simple demonstrat ...

2018

Self-attribution of distorted reaching movements in immersive virtual reality

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Henrique Galvan Debarba

This study explores the extent to which individuals embodied in Virtual Reality tend to self-attribute the movements of their avatar. More specifically, we tested subjects performing goal-directed movements and distorted the mapping between user and avatar ...

2018

SPA: Sparse Photorealistic Animation Using a Single RGB-D Camera

Ronan Boulic, Eray Molla, Jingyu Yang, Kun Li

Photorealistic animation is a desirable technique for computer games and movie production. We propose a new method to synthesize plausible videos of human actors with new motions using a single cheap RGB-D camera. A small database is captured in a usual of ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Privacy-Friendly Photo Sharing and Relevant Applications Beyond

Lin Yuan

Popularization of online photo sharing brings people great convenience, but has also raised concerns for privacy. Researchers proposed various approaches to enable image privacy, most of which focus on encrypting or distorting image visual content. In this ...

EPFL2017

Precise and Responsive Performance Animation for Embodied Immersive Interactions

Eray Molla

The recent advances in immersive display technologies offer a unique opportunity for providing intuitive interaction techniques easing the user involvement in the Virtual Environment. This trend underlines the great potential of Performance Animation espec ...

EPFL2016

Thinking Penguin: Multi-modal Brain-Computer Interface Control of a VR Game

Robert Leeb

We describe a multi-modal brain-computer interface (BCI) experiment, situated in a highly immersive CAVE. A subject sitting in the virtual environment controls the main character of a virtual reality game: a penguin that slides down a snowy mountain slope. ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

"Seeing" and "feeling" architecture: how bodily self-consciousness alters architectonic experience and affects the perception of interiors

Olaf Blanke, Isabella Maria Pasqualini, Joan Llobera Mahy

Over the centuries architectural theory evolved several notions of embodiment, proposing in the nineteenth and twentieth century that architectonic experience is related to physiological responses of the observer. Recent advances in the cognitive neuroscie ...

Frontiers Media2013

Motion Synergies for Real-Time Postural Control in Virtual Environments

Daniel Raunhardt

Virtual prototyping has become an important part during the product development process. The common way to let a user interact with the virtual prototype is the use of a three dimensional virtual mannequin that is controlled by the user. These human figure ...

EPFL2010

Automated Motion LoD with Rigid Constraints

Daniel Thalmann, Junghyun Ahn

Motion LoD (Level of Detail) is a preprocessing technique that generates multiple details of captured motion by eliminating joints. This LoD technique is applied to movie, game or VR environments for the purpose of improving speed of crowd animation. So fa ...

2010

Virtual Human Control for Reaching Tasks

Damien Maupu

In the framework of virtual prototyping, a virtual human is a useful tool to evaluate what one can reach or see. However because engineers and industrial designers are not necessarily skilled animators, it is important to provide intuitive or high-level in ...

EPFL2010

Semantics for virtual humans

Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

Population of Virtual Worlds with Virtual Humans is increasing rapidly by people who want to create a virtual life parallel to the real one (i.e. Second Life). The evolution of technology is smoothly providing the necessary elements to increase realism wit ...

EPFL2009

Generating, animating, and rendering varied individuals for real-time crowds

Jonathan Maim

To simulate realistic crowds of virtual humans in real time, three main requirements need satisfaction. First of all, quantity, i.e., the ability to simulate thousands of characters. Secondly, quality, because each virtual human composing a crowd needs to ...

EPFL2009

Two-handed haptic feedback in generic virtual environments

Renaud Ott

Since [years] we hear about Virtual Reality as a discipline that could potentially provide benefits to many applications. Basically, the principle of Virtual Reality consists in stimulating user senses in order to give the impression to be in another place ...

EPFL2009

Simulation of Individual Spontaneous Reactive Behavior

Daniel Thalmann, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

The context of this work is the search for realism and believability of Virtual Humans. Our contribution to achieve this goal is to enable Virtual Humans (VH) to react to spontaneous events in virtual environments (VE). In order to reflect the individualit ...

2008

An ontology of virtual humans: Incorporating semantics into human shapes

Daniel Thalmann, Laurent Moccozet, Frédéric Vexo, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

Most of the efforts concerning graphical representations of humans (Virtual Humans) have been focused on synthesizing geometry for static or animated shapes. The next step is to consider a human body not only as a 3D shape, but as an active semantic entity ...

2007