Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• The Hybrid team has considerably grown this year, reaching a total of nearly 40 team members at the end of 2017. In particular, 10 new PhD Students have been recruited in 2017, and 2 new Associate Members have joined Hybrid this year: Guillaume Moreau (Professor, Ecole Centrale de Nantes), and Jean-Marie Normand (Associate Professor, Ecole Centrale de Nantes).

• The Hybrid team was strongly involved in conference organization this year, in particular with: IEEE ISMAR 2017 and IGRV 2017. The IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2017 (IEEE ISMAR 2017) notably took place for the first time in France with around 350 attendees, in Nantes, October 9-13, with G. Moreau and A. Lécuyer: General Chairs, J.-M. Normand: Deputy General Chair, F. Argelaguet: Posters Chair, F. Nouviale: Demos Chair, V. Gouranton and R. Gaugne: VR Tour Chairs.

• The team has also organized a 1-week "hackathon" on Virtual Reality, at Inria Rennes in June 2017, with more than 20 participants and 4 teams. It was a very successful event which ended up with 4 live demos presented at Inria/IRISA Rennes and assessed by a Jury of experts.

• We have officially started to work on the topic of "Augmented Reality" this year, with a first paper published in IEEE ISMAR 2017, and several PhD students recruited on this hot topic (Etienne Peillard, Hakim Si-Mohammed, Guillaume Bataille).

• IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award 2017 - Honorable Mention : for former PhD student Merwan Achibet for his work "Contributions to the Design of Novel Hand-based Interaction Techniques for Virtual Environments".

• GdR IG-RV Best PhD Thesis Award 2017 - Honorable Mention : for former PhD student Merwan Achibet for his work "Contributions to the Design of Novel Hand-based Interaction Techniques for Virtual Environments".

• b<>com Award for Best Publication of the year 2017 for former PhD student Lucas Royer for his paper :

Best Paper Award: