Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

A new Virtual Reality room

This year, our virtual reality room is renewed. It is composed of a new wall with four faces (front, two sides and ground), an ART tracker to track user position and a Yamaha sound rendering system linked to Genelec speakers with 10.2 format sound controlled by the user position. The dimension is 9.6 m wide, 2.9 m deep and 3.1 m high. This new equipment allowed us to become a key partner of the VISIONAIR european project which aims at creating a European infrastructure that should be a unique, visible and attractive entry towards high-level visualization facilities open to a wide set of research communities..

Runner-up award at IEEE 3DUI

Jérôme Ardouin, PhD student, obtained the 2nd best short paper award for his paper entitled "Design and Evaluation of Methods to Prevent Frame Cancellation in Real-Time Stereoscopic Rendering", presented at the IEEE 3DUI conference 2011 [10] .

Two presentations at Siggraph E-Tech

The Joyman [33] has been demonstrated in Siggraph Asia while the Virtual Crepe Factory has been presented in Siggraph [14] .