Section: New Software and Platforms

#FIVE

Framework for Interactive Virtual Environments

Keywords: Virtual reality - 3D - 3D interaction - Behavior modeling

Scientific Description: #FIVE (Framework for Interactive Virtual Environments) is a framework for the development of interactive and collaborative virtual environments. #FIVE was developed to answer the need for an easier and a faster design and development of virtual reality applications. #FIVE provides a toolkit that simplifies the declaration of possible actions and behaviours of objects in a VE. It also provides a toolkit that facilitates the setting and the management of collaborative interactions in a VE. It is compliant with a distribution of the VE on different setups. It also proposes guidelines to efficiently create a collaborative and interactive VE. The current implementation is in C# and comes with a Unity3D engine integration, compatible with MiddleVR framework.

Functional Description: #FIVE contains software modules that can be interconnected and helps in building interactive and collaborative virtual environments. The user can focus on domain-specific aspects for his/her application (industrial training, medical training, etc) thanks to #FIVE's modules. These modules can be used in a vast range of domains using virtual reality applications and requiring interactive environments and collaboration, such as in training for example.

• Participants: Florian Nouviale, Valérie Gouranton, Bruno Arnaldi, Vincent Goupil, Carl-Johan Jorgensen, Emeric Goga, Adrien Reuzeau and Alexandre Audinot

• Contact: Valérie Gouranton

• Publication: #FIVE : High-Level Components for Developing Collaborative and Interactive Virtual Environments

• URL: https://bil.inria.fr/fr/software/view/2527/tab