Cinematic Virtual Reality has been increasing in popularity in the last years. Watching 360° movies with a Head Mounted Display, the viewer can freely choose the direction of view, and thus the visible section of the movie. We explored three cinematic ...

Existing redirected walking applications use accurate tracking systems to determine the position and orientation of the user within a designated tracking space. In order to plan redirection and to ensure the user's safety, it is necessary to define the ...

Designing a VR content is a challenging task due to the complexity of the analysis of a user's experience. We propose a tool allowing a reviewer to record a user's movements when consuming a VR content, and to playback this experience. During the ...

This paper describes our demonstration of a walkable self-overlapping maze and its corresponding map to facilitate asymmetric collaboration for room-scale virtual reality setups in public places.

This paper describes two exploratory and ongoing projects on data perception with the support of some preliminary experimental results. Firstly, the paper describes two approaches for haptic-based representation of multivariate data. Later, one of the ...

Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies bring often definitions understanding issues for novice users. In this paper, we introduce our work in progress, Immercity, regarding the development of a content curation application which manage the idea of ...

GalVR is a navigation interface that uses galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) during walking to cause users to turn from their planned trajectory. We explore GalVR for collaborative navigation in a two-player virtual reality (VR) game. The interface ...

The latest advancements in Augmented Reality (AR) and Diminished Reality (DR) have allowed the development of many consumer-oriented applications (such as sales and driving aid, or education). To increase the realism in rendering, estimating the ...

In this paper we report on an investigation of the effects of a self-avatar's visual similarity to a user's actual appearance, on their perceptions of the avatar in an immersive virtual reality (IVR) experience. We conducted a user study to examine the ...

The authors developed a system for augmenting live performances where the performer can drive the rendered background image via an infrared LED transmitter prop. A multi-sensory prop was designed to aid the position tracking of performer on large scale ...

Redirected Walking (RDW) manipulates a scene that is displayed to VR users so that they unknowingly compensate for scene motion and can thus explore a large virtual world on a limited space. So far, mostly visual manipulation techniques have been ...

The specularity prediction task in images, given the camera pose and scene geometry, is challenging and ill-posed. A recent approach called JOint LIght-MAterial Specularity (JOLIMAS) addresses this problem using a geometric model under the assumption ...

We present a novel signaling method for head-mounted displays, which surpasses eye (pupil) and delivers guiding light signals directly to retina through tissue near the eyes. This method preserves full visual acuity on the display and does not block ...

Swarm-based braiding of structures represents a novel research direction in the domain of building architecture. The idea is that autonomous agents, for instance robots that unroll threads or plants that grow, are programmed or influenced to braid. It is ...

The advent of affordable virtual reality (VR) displays and 360° video cameras has sparked an interest in bringing cinematic experiences from the screen and into VR. However, it remains uncertain whether traditional approaches to filmmaking can be ...

Most existing Augmented Reality (AR) applications use either template (picture) markers or bar-code markers to overlay computer-generated graphics on the real world surfaces. The use of template markers is computationally expensive and unreliable. On the ...

Humans are capable of haptically perceiving the shape of an object by simply wielding it, even without seeing it. On the other hand, typical hand-held controllers for virtual reality (VR) applications are pre-designed for general applications, and thus ...

This paper investigates the effect of avatar realism on embodiment and social interactions in Virtual Reality (VR). We compared abstract avatar representations based on a wooden mannequin with high fidelity avatars generated from photogrammetry 3D scan ...

Properly handling occlusion between real and virtual objects is an important property for any mixed reality (MR) system. Existing methods have typically required known geometry of the real objects in the scene, either specified manually, or ...

Augmented reality (AR) enables the illusion of computer-generated virtual objects and humans co-existing with us in the real world. Virtual humans (VHs) in AR can further induce an illusion of physicality in the real world due to their form of ...