Description
The collaborative research initiative (ARC) NIEVE aims at:
- Studying the modulation of emotion in audiovisual VEs, focusing on the case of phobia of dogs in the iCube.
- Studying appropriate representations, view combinations/transitions and auditory feedback for effective navigation in VEs
- Developing novel immersive audiovisual interfaces for navigation in VEs
- Developing an innovative emotion-based methodology for the evaluation of immersive navigation interfaces.
Publications
- A Multimode Immersive Conceptual Design System for Architectural Modeling and Lighting, Marcio Cabral, Peter Vangorp, Gaurav Chaurasia, Emmanuelle Chapoulie, Martin Hachet, George Drettakis, Proceedings of IEEE 3DUI (technote) – 2011
- Perception of Visual Artifacts in Image-Based Rendering of Façades, Peter Vangorp, Gaurav Chaurasia, Pierre-Yves Laffont, Roland Fleming, George Drettakis Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), Volume 30, 2011
- Walking in a Cube: Novel Metaphors for Safely Navigation Large Virtual Environments in Restricted Real Workspaces, G. Cirio, P. Vangorp, E. Chapoulie, M. Marchal, A. Lecuyer, G. Drettakis (conditional accept IEEE VR/IEEE Trans. on Vis. & Comp. Graphics)
- Study of viewing angle for Image based rendering, P. Vangorp, M. Banks, A. Bousseau, G. Chaurasia, G. Drettakis. (in preparation)
- Material perception for stereo rendering, P. Vangorp, J. O’Shea, M. Banks, A. Bousseau, G. Chaurasia, G. Drettakis. (in preparation)
- Natural Gestures and Lighting for presence in VR. E. Chapoulie, E. Dimara, M. Roussou, G. Drettakis (in preparation)
Presentation at the INRIA Scientific Days Workshop
Presentation here
Partners
- INRIA
- REVES Research group: the
coordinator of the NIEVE project is George Drettakis,
leader of the REVES group in Sophia-Antipolis (contact:
george.drettakis at sophia.inria.fr)
- DREAM service Sophia-Antipolis:
the research engineer service DREAM provides software
and hardware support for the activities to be performed
in the Immersive Space. Contact: Jean-Christophe
Lombardo
- BUNRAKU Research group in Rennes -
Contact: Anatole Lécuyer
- REVES Research group: the
coordinator of the NIEVE project is George Drettakis,
leader of the REVES group in Sophia-Antipolis (contact:
george.drettakis at sophia.inria.fr)
- IRCAM - Contact: Isabelle Viaud-Delmon
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Immersive Space
The Immersive Space in Sophia-Antipolis has two display devices, a CadWall for its ease of use and an iCube for its immersion quality. Both devices offer 6:1 sound restitution, stereo images and optical tracking. In NIEVE, we will be using the iCube. iCube This display device offers a 3.2m x 2.4m working area. It is made of 3 vertical screens (left, front, right) and an horizontal one (floor). Thanks to the head tracking, it allows a single user to be completely immersed in a virtual environment. It is a unique setup at INRIA since it is the first immersive “CAVE-like” immersive environment of the Institute; in particular, the floor is retroprojected, which is essential for the sensation of immersion and presence. In addition, we provide full Head-Related Transfer Funtion based 3D audio spatialization, delivered over headphones or speakers using Cross Talk Cancellation (planned for 2010). Technical features Enforcing the user experience quality has been one of our main goals. It results in several features:
- Screens Retro projected screens (including the iCube floor) to avoid shadows. Dark screens to enhance contrast.
- Projectors 12k lumen to guarantee brightness. Xenon bulbs for their spectrum.
- Stereo Active Infitec to minimize ghosting and avoid synchronization issues Two different image and sound generators are available:
- a single PC with multiple graphics card and a multi canal sound card,
- a graphics cluster where a master drives one slave dedicated to each projector and a sound server. Graphics cards are Nvidia Quadro 5800FX. A photograph of the iCube is shown below:
