Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

VCoRE – Visual COmputing Runtime Environment. Inria ADT (Technology Transfer Initiative), two academic partners: Inria (Grenoble, Lille, Rennes, Saclay, Sophia Antipolis) and IGD Fraunhofer Institute (Darmstadt, Germany). Stéphane Huot: coordinator and principal investigator for INSITU / Inria Saclay–Île-de-France, Romain Primet: investigator for INSITU / SED / Inria Saclay–Île-de-France. The VCoRE project aims to share resources and to develop a new software framework for advanced Mixed/Augmented/Virtual Reality and Visualization platforms. The advantages of this shared framework will be (i) to provide engineers and researchers with unified and flexible development tools to support research projects; (ii) to ease the development and porting of applications on heterogeneous immersive and visualization platforms, while still making the most of their capabilities (specific hardware, computing power, interaction devices, etc.). All the partners are conducting research projects on such platforms and have a strong background in computer graphics, human-computer interaction, software engineering, real-time simulation, parallel computing, etc. In VCoRE, INSITU will contribute with its expertise in HCI and software engineering, thanks to the knowledge gained from the WILD project. In concrete terms, several of the software tools and methods for designing and programming interaction developed at INSITU will be improved and integrated into VCoRE as the framework interaction management tools (FlowStates, WILDInputServer).