Section: New Results

Immersia Virtual Reality room

Participants : Georges Dumont [contact] , Alain Chauffaut [contact] , Ronan Gaugne [contact] , Rémi Félix, Marwan Badawi, Bruno Arnaldi, Thierry Duval, Valérie Gouranton.

The team was the first in France to host a large-scale immersive virtual reality equipment known as Immersia. This platform, with full visual and sound immersion, is dedicated to real-time, multimodal (vision, sound, haptic, BCI) and immersive interaction. The Immersia platform is a key node of the european transnational VISIONAIR infrastructure and will be open in 2012 to the access of foreign research projects. It will accommodate experiments using interactive and collaborative virtual-reality applications that have multiple local or remote users. Our new wall has four faces: a front, two sides and a ground. Dimensions are 9.6 m wide, 2.9 m deep and 3.1 m hight. The visual reproduction system combines eight Barco Galaxy NW12 projectors and three Barco Galaxy 7+ projectors. Visual images from Barco projectors are rendered on glass screens. They are adjusted for the user's position, and this, together with their high resolution and homogeneous coloring, make them very realistic. The ART localization system, constituted of 16 ART-track2 cameras, enables real objects to be located within the U-shape. Sound rendering is provided by a Yamaha processor, linked either to Genelec speakers with 10.2 format sound or Beyer Dynamic headsets with 5.1 virtual format sound, controlled by the user's position.