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.
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…
Our team has been a pioneer in exploring the use of virtual reality to collect data on collective behaviour. While the relationship between density and speed is of prime importance in these studies, in this new article we look at the effect of the way in which the crowd is…
Our paper “Collision avoidance behaviours of young adult walkers: Influence of a virtual pedestrian’s age-related appearance and gait profile” has been presented to SAP 2024 Dublin. This paper, authored by Sheryl Bourgaize, Michael Cinelli, Pierre Raimbaud, Ludovic Hoyet, and Anne-Hélène Olivier, is a collaboration between the VirtUs team, Wilfrid Laurier…
It was a great honour for us to present our work on pedestrian movement, from the individual to the crowd, as well as the experimental approaches we have been able to develop in real and virtual conditions. It was a presentation with several voices, reflecting the complementary nature of our…
