Facilities and equipment

Facilities and equipment

Irisa and M2S laboratories share their experimental facilities.

ComBO benefits from priviledge access to two virtual reality plaforms Immersia (Irisa) and Immermove (M2S), grouped in a unique collaborative immersive platform named “ImmerSTAR” leaded by Georges Dumont.

Immersia

Description of the platform :

Backed by the Inria Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique centre and the IRISA laboratory, Immersia has immersive equipment that plunges users into a high-quality visual and auditory world. This 9.60-metre-long technological tool aims to enable interaction with a virtual world that is as realistic as possible. Immersia is primarily a research tool, open to the scientific community, whether regional, national or European, academic or industrial. Its collaborations within future investment programmes, such as the Comin Labs labex and the IRT B-Com, and European projects, have given Immersia visibility on a European scale.

The Immersia platform and its team have developed extensive expertise in the field of virtual reality and offer training, support and access to high-level equipment for professionals who need:

  • immersive visualisation at scale 1
  • interaction with their models
  • collaborative work simulation

The Immersia VR platform is owned by IRISA and Inria. This platform is organised around a large immersive infrastructure and dedicated softwares. Immersia is in fact the third version of this VR platform.

Facilities and Resources:

  • SALLE IMMERSIA [3 M X 10 M X 3M]
  • 14 Projectors / 35 Millions pixels / 80 M² screen
  • 360 Tracking (full body markers)
  • Genelec and Yamaha 5.1 & 10.2 spatial
  • Sound Systems
  • Full space bi-manual haptic system
  • Various HMDs (HTC vive Pro, Oculus Quest 2, Hololens,…)

Services:

  • Resources:
    Visualisation of 3D models (virtual prototypes) in an immersive space with exceptional qualities and dimensions (scale 1).
  • Organisation of collaborative working sessions:
    – Model review.
    – Access to powerful computing and graphics rendering resources.
    – Interaction with 3D digital models (haptic), testing of simulation and visualisation applications at scale 1, scenario analysis.
    – Involvement in collaborative R&D projects (FUI, ANR, Europe) in immersive virtual reality.
  • Consulting:
    – Support for the design, implementation and operation of visualisation and virtual reality platforms.
  • Training:
    – Introduction to immersive virtual reality
    – Unity 3D for virtual reality

Projects :

  • Immersia is associated to the platform Immermove through Immerstar
  • Immersia is a member of the Continuum Equipex+ project, and French National Research Infrastructure

Immermove

Description of the platform :

Immermove is an experimental platform for the analysis of human movement and interaction, particularly in the field of sports. It is a 30 x 20 meters² gymnasium fully equiped and dedicated to analyzing human motion. It also includes VR devices and a CAVE of 12 x 4 x 4 meters.

Technical specifications (VR and CAVE):

  • Vertical retro-projected main screen: 12 x 4 m²
  • Direct-projected ground screen: 12 x 4 m²
  • Right side screen : 4 x 3 m²
  • Stereo Projectors (120 Hz) : 4 Christie Mirage 4K25 + 1 Christie Mirage WU12K-M
  • Tracking system: 12 Vicon Bonita cameras, 1 Apex
  • Active stereoscopy with RF Volfoni ActiveEyes
  • Surround sound 5.1
  • Rendering software: MiddleVR
  • Head mounted display (HTC): 8 HTC Vive Pro

Equipment (Motion Capture):

  • Ground forces measurement: 2 force plates 120x60cm (AMTI)
  • Electromyographic systems :
    – 16 wireless Trigno Advanti (Delsys)
    – 16 waterproof wireless mini wave infinity with a Wave Plus EMG system (Cometa)
  • Motion capture systems :
    – Qualisys system with 23 cameras (7+)
    – Vicon system (Oxford Metrics) with 24 camera (MX and Vantage)
    – Optitrack (Natural Point) with 20 cameras
  • Cycle Ergometer: SRM indoortrainer science version with 7 powercontrol and a crank torque analysis system
  • XSENS Awinda
  • Kinect 2 (Microsoft)

Projects:

Exermove

Description :

The exercise physiology area (100 m²) is dedicated to measuring physiological parameters during rest and exercise.

Equipment :

  • Isokinetic CON-TREX ergometer with multijoint and TP-1000 modules
  • A portable cardiopulmonary exercise testing system – Metalizer 3B (Cortex)
  • A permanent cardiopulmonary exercise testing system including :
    • Gas exchange analysis system – Ultima CardiO2 (Medgraphics)
    • An ambulatory 12-lead ECG (Mortara)
    • Tensiomètre d’effort BL-6 (Metronik)
    • Pulse oxymetry – (Masimo)
    • Lactate test meter Sirius (H/P/Cosmos)
  • Treadmill Pulsar 3P (H/P/Cosmos)
  • Ergocycle Excalibur (Lode)
  • Cyclus 2 Ergometer

Projects: