After an online experience in 2021, VirtUs team will be hosting the conference ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) once more, this time in person! The conference will take place at the Inria institute in Rennes, end of August 2026.
The VROOM project, funded by the ANR under the PRCE call and coordinated by Julien Pettre, will explore optimisation of crowd management using virtual reality. The project is set to start in January 2026.
VirtUs participated in the organisation of a panel discussion as part of the second EMRN Conference: “A Metaverse for the Good” in Alicante, Spain. The panel brought together experts from neuroscience, ethics, social sciences, and computer science: Laurynas Adomaitis (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden), Beatrice de Gelder (Maastricht University), Mel Slater (Universitat…
VirtUs team was participating to the workshop: Human-Centered Technological Innovation: A new HUB for future technologies on June 9 at University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. The goal was to promote a human-centered approach to technological innovation, integrating scientific expertise with the needs of the productive world. More information: LinkedIn post
VirtUs is happy to share this updated and expanded resource with the research community working on human crowds. This glossary aims to support interdisciplinary dialogue by clarifying key terms and concepts that are often used differently across fields. With 65 contributors from various disciplines and regions around the world, this…
A new article published in Journal of Biomechanics by Chatagnon et al. presents a novel classification method for recovery strategies following external perturbations. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021929025001514
