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…
VirtUs was present at the Dagstuhl Seminar 24371. An incredible opportunity to be offered time to think without the usual hustle. An inspiring and rewarding week collaborating with international experts, all driven by a shared mission: to exchange knowledge and learn from each other to advance the topic of XR and…
It’s a great honor and pleasure to welcome Bobby Bodenheimer to our team. In transit between SAP 2024 in Dublin and the Dagstuhl Seminar in Germany, we’re enjoying Bobby’s inspiring talk on augmented reality interfaces for pedestrian navigation.
Our paper “E.T. the Exceptional Trajectories: Text-to-camera-trajectory generation with character awareness” has been accepted at ICCV 2024. With Nicolas Dufour, Xi Wang, Marc Christie, and Vicky Kalogeiton. It will be presented by Robin in Milan. Check the paper here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.01516 and find more details on the dedicated website https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/vista/projects/2024_et_courant/
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…
Our paper “ Wheelchair Proxemics: interpersonal behaviour between pedestrians and power wheelchair drivers in real and virtual environments ” has been accepted to VRST 2024. This paper is authored by Emilie Leblong, Fabien Grzeskowiak, Sébastien Thomas, Louise Devigne, Marie Babel and Anne-Hélène Olivier. In this paper, we aimed to investigate…
Our IEEE TVCG paper “Real-time Multi-map Saliency-driven Gaze Behavior for Non-conversational Characters” is presented at ACM/Europgraphics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2024) in Montreal, Canada. This paper introduces the first real-time fully data-driven gaze animation technique with unprecedent of level of realism. Still time to read our paper.
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…
Today was the official launch of the SocNav Associate Team. The SocNav team is funded by Inria, promoting an interdisciplinary collaboration between Inria Centre de l’Université de Rennes (France) and Cirris – Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (Canada). More broadly, this project involves Cirris, LogVS team, VirtUs…
The VirtUs team is participating the “Fete des Sciences”, 2022 edition. We are performing live demonstrations in Virtual Reality of our immersive simulations. We also showcase some of our animation techniques, and show movies of recent experiments we performed. Please visit and join us if you are in Rennes.
