Section: New Results

Art and Science

Participants: Clémentine Petit, Maxime Agor, Martin Hachet

Potioc collaborates with artists for Art and Science projects. These projects are supported by a dedicated program at Idex - Université de Bordeaux.

The first one, Kilometre 2.0, is a joint project with Cécile Léna https://www.lenadazy.fr who is a visual artist and scenographer. We have augmented physical mockups with digital objects (see Figure 5). More concretely, our system detects train tickets being manipulated above a miniature scenery. Depending on their locations, dedicated movies are projected exactly on them, in the 3D space. Other sound and smoke effects are also generated. This artistic and interactive setup has been showed during the FACTS festival in November 18.

Figure 5. Spatial augmented reality in an artistic installation

The second project is conducted in collaboration with Antoine Clée from Le Cirque Inachevé http://www.lecirqueinacheve.fr. Our objective is to explore new forms of juggling where the balls are not constrained by gravity anymore. More precisely, the balls are held by nano-quadcopters (drones) as illustrated in Figure 6. The juggler controls these drones by way of tracked gloves and associated interaction techniques. We presented this work as a poster presentation at IHM 2017 [16]. It has also been demonstrated during a live performance at OARA in Bordeaux on November 23rd, part of the FACTS festival.

Figure 6. A juggler interacting with flying balls