Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Mélanie Cogné (Medical Doctor, PhD, CHU Rennes) has joined the Hybrid team as a new External Collaborator.

• Hybrid team has been strongly involved in the organization of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2019 (IEEE VR), with F. Argelaguet (Program Chair) and A. Lécuyer (Panels Chair) and Jean-Marie Normand (Program Committee).

• The Immersia VR platform has celebrated its 20 years of existence at Inria Rennes/IRISA center, within the “20ans d'Immersia” event (November 2019).

• Hybrid team has organized a “VR Hackathon” at the Inria Rennes/IRISA Center, gathering around 20 participants (May 2019).

Awards

• IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award 2019 was obtained by Anatole Lécuyer.

• IEEE VR Best 3DUI Contest Demo Award 2019: was obtained by Team Hybrid (Hugo Brument, Rebecca Fribourg, Gerard Gallagher, Thomas Howard, Flavien Lecuyer, Tiffany Luong, Victor Mercado, Etienne Peillard, Xavier de Tinguy, and Maud Marchal), for the demo entitled “Pyramid Escape: Design of Novel Passive Haptics Interactions for an Immersive and Modular Scenario” [11].

Best Papers Awards:

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