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VR is the ultimate reality - What is VR ? - What is the current state of the VR market ? - How to create VR applications ? - What's the future ? London - Oculus Rift VR Meetup 12-13 December 2013
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VR - Creating the ultimate reality
- 1. VR! The ultimate reality Sébastien ‘Cb’ Kuntz @Cb_VRGeek
- 2. Sébastien ‘Cb’ Kuntz (French railways) “Creating Virtual Reality Games:! The Fundamentals” Founder & President
- 4. • Simplify VR (software)! • So YOU can spend more time creating apps! • MiddleVR for Unity
- 5. Plan • What is Virtual Reality ?! • VR applications! • MiddleVR for Unity! • Future
- 6. What is VR ? • VR is reborn ?! • VR never died !! • Market! • 2013 Europe: 100M$! • Peugeot: 7M€ since 99! • Renault: 3M€ new VR system! • 2018: Between 400M$ and 1B$! • Because VR is used to improve reality! • Saving time, money and lives
- 7. What is VR ? • Growing because of! • Proved usefulness & ROI! • Democratization! • Projectors! • Trackers! • HMDs
- 8. Virtual reality Presence in a virtual world
- 9. CAVE
- 11. Sony
- 12. Experience of presence is in your brain !
- 13. “VR works because reality is virtual” Lawrence Stark • Perceive reality through (imperfect) senses! • Drugs / dreams create perception! • Allegory of the Cave (Plato) Natural reality vs Virtual Reality
- 15. To create and maintain presence, you need to ... • Build hardware • Build software • Build user experience
- 16. VR Applications
- 17. Prototyping Design / Ergonomy • Car, aircraft, boat, tractors, house appliances! • Work on objects or environments that don’t yet exist! • Identify conception errors early! • More iterations, better products! • Test usage ! • Train! • Maintenance! • Communication tool (c) Peugeot PSA
- 18. Marketing • Market study! • Virtual showroom
- 19. Training • Military, surgeons, firefighters, mine safety, oil & gas platforms, nurses, building industry! • Practice actual gestures! • Repeat until master! • Analysis, replay! • Practice rare/dangerous situations! • Easy accessibility! • Reduced costs! • Save material
- 20. Phobia treatment
- 21. Current VR Games • Very early stage! • Similar to origin of radio & TV! • People accept low quality because new and not paying! • Rift is not (yet) a complete VR platform! • “Just” display, missing interaction devices! • Missing hand & head position tracking, joystick
- 22. Current VR Games • We don’t know how to make simple VR games! • Adding as much hardware as possible won’t work! • Presence is fragile! • Adapting existing games! • Automatic drivers conversion can’t deliver on promise! • “Can be played with any game using keyboard/ mouse”
- 24. • Platform for creating interactive 3d applications! • Widely used! • 2 million registered developers
- 25. Desktop
- 28. Deployment • Modify application to! • Change drivers! • Change displays! • Change interactions
- 29. To create and maintain presence, you, the author, need to ... • Build hardware • Build software • Build user experience
- 30. “VR is mainly a software problem”! ! aron Lanier! J
- 31. What is MiddleVR ? • Generic VR plugin ! • Functionalities ○Manage input devices •3D trackers, keyboard, mouse, joystick ! ○Manage display •Viewports, cameras, stereoscopy, cluster
- 32. Desktop
- 35. Supported Devices • Native drivers • Oculus Rift • Leap Motion • Kinect (Microsoft SDK) • PNI SpacePoint Fusion • GameTrak • Razer Hydra • Motion Analysis (beta) • Via VRPN : • A.R.T • Vicon • Optitrack • Wiimote ! • Polhemus Fastrak Tracker, 3Space Tracker, Patriot Trackers, • • • • • • • • Ascension Flock of Bird Intersense IS600, IS900 3dTech HiBall-3000 Wide Area Tracker, Advanced Realtime Tracking Gmbh DTrack Client, World Viz Precision Position Tracker PPT 1.2, Natural Point Optitrack Rigid Body Toolkit, Phasespace optical tracking OWL, ...
- 36. Supported displays • • • • • • • • • Virtually any HMD VR-Wall, Powerwall Workbench, Holobench HoloStage CAVEs 3D TVs zSpace Igloo Vision …
- 37. MiddleVR 1.4 • Free edition! • Oculus Rift! • Leap Motion! • Kinect! • …! • http://www.imin-vr.com/download! ! • Future! • Haptics (IPSI - Haption)! • More interactions! • Menus & GUI (HTML5)! • Warping / blending! • Collaboration / multi-user!
- 38. Future
- 39. Perceptive illusions • Perceive reality through (imperfect) senses! • Sensitivity of senses! • Selectivity of attention
- 40. Perceptive illusions Redirected walking (c) Franck Steinicke - Wurzburg University
- 41. Perceptive illusions Change blindness Change blindness : (c) Evan Suma - USC/ICT
- 45. Perceptive illusions • Playing with limitations of human perception! • Useful to lower cost/complexity of VR systems
- 46. Conclusion
- 47. http://www.imin-vr.com/download ! Thank you ! Questions ? ! Sebastien.Kuntz@imin-vr.com @Cb_VRGeek @imin_vr