VRTogether project partners Motion Spell, TNO and CWI participated at the last MPEG meetings (#122 and #123) in San Diego and Ljubljana with the intention of getting brand-new feedback around Virtual Reality. It appears that VR activities blossom in many fields: MPEG-I, OMAF, Point clouds, NBMP, MPEG-MORE. The long-term trend shows that VR is coming […]
Do you feel in control of the body that you see? This is an important question in virtual reality (VR) as it highly impacts the user’s sensation of presence and embodiment of an avatar representation while immersed in a virtual environment. To better understand this aspect, VR together partners Artanim performed an experiment to assess […]
VRTogether’s members are currently analysing the market to provide a wide vision of the current market and the expected evolution of the immersive audiovisual products. The objectives of this study are t: Shed light on changing behaviours and associated expectations in audio-visual consumption. Assess the market potential of the solutions developed within VRTogether group both […]
The virtual reality market is gaining more traction by the day, large players in the field develop new innovative solutions to maximise immersiveness and a lot is fueled by the social media giant named Facebook who owns one of the most powerful companies in the field, Oculus. It’s Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, recently published an […]
Two papers from the VRTogether project have been accepted: one is for a demo at the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2018 (MMSys), which will be held in Amsterdam from 12 to 16 June; the other is a WiP Paper for the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video (ACM TVX2018), which […]