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Unite 2012: MiddleVR
The document discusses virtual reality (VR), outlining its definition, hardware, applications, and challenges in creating VR applications. It highlights the current evolution of VR and calls attention to its democratization and potential impact on the future. Additionally, it provides insights on software requirements, VR systems, and user's interaction with immersive experiences.
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Unite 2012: MiddleVR
- 1. Simplify VR SébastienKuntz President Thursday, August 30, 12
- 2. Plan • What is VR ? • Hardware • Applications • Challenges of creating a VR application • MiddleVR for Unity Thursday, August 30, 12
- 3. WHY NOW ? Thursday,August 30, 12
- 4. WHY NOW ? •Already changing the world Thursday, August 30, 12
- 5. WHY NOW ? •Already changing the world • Democratization Thursday, August 30, 12
- 6. WHY NOW ? •Already changing the world • Democratization • Are we in the future ? No ! We’re still in prehistory ! Thursday, August 30, 12
- 7. WHY NOW ? •Already changing the world • Democratization • Are we in the future ? No ! We’re still in prehistory ! • WE can make a difference ! Thursday, August 30, 12
- 8. Virtual reality Presence in a virtual world (c) Barco (c) eMagin Thursday, August 30, 12
- 9. Virtual reality Presence in a virtual world (c) Barco (c) eMagin Thursday, August 30, 12
- 10. i’m in! Thursday, August30, 12
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- 13. mersion teraction Thursday, August 30, 12
- 14. mersion teraction Presence Thursday, August 30, 12
- 15. Plan • What is VR ? • Hardware • Applications • Challenges of creating a VR application • MiddleVR for Unity Thursday, August 30, 12
- 16. PROJECTOR BASED VR SYSTEMS Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb29bLHEjUg Clarte - SAS Cube Thursday, August 30, 12
- 19. REALITY CENTER - HOLOSTAGE (c) Arnaud Muthelet Thursday, August 30, 12
- 20. PROJECTOR BASED - WORKBENCH Thursday, August 30, 12
- 21. PROJECTOR BASED VR SYSTEMS • Cons • (Very) expensive ! • Lots of space ! ( front and behind, AC... ) • Not 360° • Cluster hard to program ! • Pros • +/- Collaborative • Not much to wear • High resolution, big FOV Thursday, August 30, 12
- 22. HMD HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS Thursday, August 30, 12
- 23. VUZIX •640x480 •32° FOV •852x480 •32° FOV Thursday, August 30, 12
- 24. EMAGIN Z800 • 800x600 • 40° FOV Thursday, August 30, 12
- 25. SONY • HMZ-T1 • 1280x720 (720p) • 45° Thursday, August 30, 12
- 26. SENSICS • piSight • Multiple screens • zSight • 1280x1024 • 70° FOV Thursday, August 30, 12
- 27. NVIS • nVisor SX60 • 1280x1024 • 60° FOV • nVisor SX111 • 1280x1024 • 111° FOV Thursday, August 30, 12
- 28. FAKESPACE LABS • Wide5 • 150° horizontal FOV • 1600x1200 • Progressive Thursday, August 30, 12
- 29. OCULUS • Rift (DevKit) • 90° horizontal FOV • 1280x800 • 640x800 per eye Thursday, August 30, 12
- 30. HMD • Cons • Low resolution, low FOV • Must wear, adjust • No peripheral vision • Pros • Lightweight • Compact • Easier to program • 360° tracking Thursday, August 30, 12
- 31. LOCOMOTION • Virtusphere • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTnnJR-hS7k • CirculaFloor • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsvB2y2Ero • OmniDirectionnal Treadmill • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs Thursday, August 30, 12
- 32. LOCOMOTION • Virtusphere • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTnnJR-hS7k • CirculaFloor • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsvB2y2Ero • OmniDirectionnal Treadmill • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs Thursday, August 30, 12
- 33. LOCOMOTION • Virtusphere • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTnnJR-hS7k • CirculaFloor • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsvB2y2Ero • OmniDirectionnal Treadmill • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs Thursday, August 30, 12
- 34. LOCOMOTION • Virtusphere • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTnnJR-hS7k • CirculaFloor • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsvB2y2Ero • OmniDirectionnal Treadmill • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs Thursday, August 30, 12
- 35. Plan • What is VR ? • Hardware • Applications • Challenges of creating a VR application • MiddleVR for Unity Thursday, August 30, 12
- 36. IVR APPLICATIONS DESIGN, PROTOTYPING (c) Peugeot PSA (c) Miele Thursday, August 30, 12
- 37. IVR APPLICATIONS MARKETING RESEARCH (c) Virtools Thursday, August 30, 12
- 38. IVR APPLICATIONS TRAINING (c) SNCF Fiacre (c)- Fiacre (c) SNCF SNCF Thursday, August 30, 12
- 39. RE-LION http://vimeo.com/25032061 Thursday, August 30, 12
- 40. IVR APPLICATIONS RESEARCH • Research on perception Thursday, August 30, 12
- 41. IVR APPLICATIONS RESEARCH • Phobias Thursday, August 30, 12
- 42. IVR APPLICATIONS RESEARCH • Phobias Thursday, August 30, 12
- 43. Art ? Games? Thursday, August 30, 12
- 44. CAVE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pagVgeFaR5Q Clarte - Atrium Thursday, August 30, 12
- 45. BATTLEFIELD 3 SIMULATOR • www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQR49JGySTM Thursday, August 30, 12
- 46. Plan • What is VR ? • Hardware • Applications • Challenges of creating a VR application • MiddleVR for Unity Thursday, August 30, 12
- 47. “VR is mainlya software problem” Jaron Lanier Thursday, August 30, 12
- 48. Regular 3D application 2D Screen Keyboard / Mouse 3D Application Thursday, August 30, 12
- 49. Requirements for a VR application 3D Trackers 3D Application 3D Screen (c) eMagin (c) Barco Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 51. Correct perspective http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw (c) Johnny Lee Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 54. VR application 3D Screen 3D Trackers 3D Application 3D Screen 3D Screen Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 57. Cluster • Scenelock • Swaplock • Genlock Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 59. Blending (c) Scalable Display Thursday, August 30, 12
- 60. Deployment (c) eMagin (c) Barco Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 62. To achieve agood iVR experience, you need to ... Thursday, August 30, 12
- 63. To achieve agood iVR experience, you need to ... • Build hardware Thursday, August 30, 12
- 64. To achieve agood iVR experience, you need to ... • Build hardware • Build software Thursday, August 30, 12
- 65. To achieve agood iVR experience, you need to ... • Build hardware • Build software • Build experience Thursday, August 30, 12
- 66. To achieve agood iVR experience, you need to ... • Build hardware • Build software • Build experience Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 68. What is MiddleVR? ○Manage input devices •3D trackers, keyboard, mouse, joystick ○Manage displays •Viewports, cameras, stereoscopy, cluster Thursday, August 30, 12
- 69. What is MiddleVR? • C++ Interface (SDK) ○Designed to be used in many 3D applications • C# Interface ○Unity3D integration • Graphical User Interface Configurator • Possible interfaces for Python, Lua, … Thursday, August 30, 12
- 70. Simply configure yoursystem Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 73. Supported Devices • Via VRPN : • A.R.T • Vicon • Optitrack • Direct drivers • Wiimote • Kinect (Microsoft SDK) • PNI SpacePoint • Polhemus Fastrak Tracker, 3Space Tracker, Patriot Trackers, Fusion • Ascension Flock of Bird • Intersense IS600, IS900 • GameTrak • 3dTech HiBall-3000 Wide Area Tracker, • Razer Hydra • Advanced Realtime Tracking Gmbh DTrack Client, • Motion Analysis (beta) • World Viz Precision Position Tracker PPT 1.2, • Natural Point Optitrack Rigid Body Toolkit, • Phasespace optical tracking OWL, • ... Thursday, August 30, 12
- 74. VR Camera • MiddleVR computes all the cameras’ parameters automatically • Projection Matrix Thursday, August 30, 12
- 75. Stereoscopy • Active stereoscopy • Passive stereoscopy • 3D TVs Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 77. Supported displays • Virtually any HMD • VR-Wall, Powerwall • Workbench, Holobench • HoloStage • Caves (beta) • 3D TVs • Active stereoscopy • Passive stereoscopy Thursday, August 30, 12
- 78. MiddleVR - Tutorial1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEKH-1EilXs&feature=youtu.be Thursday, August 30, 12
- 79. • Free 30days trial • http://www.imin-vr.com/download • Documentation • User Guide • Class references Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 81. Requirements • Unity 3.4 / 3.5 free ! Thursday, August 30, 12
- 82. Requirements • Unity 3.4 / 3.5 free ! • Windows 7 Thursday, August 30, 12
- 83. Requirements • Unity 3.4 / 3.5 free ! • Windows 7 • Active stereo Thursday, August 30, 12
- 84. Requirements • Unity 3.4 / 3.5 free ! • Windows 7 • Active stereo • Unity Pro Thursday, August 30, 12
- 85. Requirements • Unity 3.4 / 3.5 free ! • Windows 7 • Active stereo • Unity Pro • NVidia Quadro (GPU > G80) Thursday, August 30, 12
- 86. Requirements • Unity 3.4 / 3.5 free ! • Windows 7 • Active stereo • Unity Pro • NVidia Quadro (GPU > G80) • Quadro FX 2700M, FX 3700, FX 3800, FX 4600, FX 4700, FX 4800, FX 5600 Thursday, August 30, 12
- 87. Requirements • Unity 3.4 / 3.5 free ! • Windows 7 • Active stereo • Unity Pro • NVidia Quadro (GPU > G80) • Quadro FX 2700M, FX 3700, FX 3800, FX 4600, FX 4700, FX 4800, FX 5600 • Quadro 4000, 5000, 6000 Thursday, August 30, 12
- 88. Requirements • Unity 3.4 / 3.5 free ! • Windows 7 • Active stereo • Unity Pro • NVidia Quadro (GPU > G80) • Quadro FX 2700M, FX 3700, FX 3800, FX 4600, FX 4700, FX 4800, FX 5600 • Quadro 4000, 5000, 6000 • Drivers version > 265 Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 92. • Adaptability • Software Thursday, August 30, 12
- 93. • Adaptability • Software • Hardware Thursday, August 30, 12
- 94. • Adaptability • Software • Hardware • Simplicity Thursday, August 30, 12
- 95. • Adaptability • Software • Hardware • Simplicity • Creation Thursday, August 30, 12
- 96. • Adaptability • Software • Hardware • Simplicity • Creation • Deployment Thursday, August 30, 12
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- 99. Thank you ! Questions ? Sebastien.Kuntz@imin-vr.com http://www.imin-vr.com/download http://www.slideshare.net/SebKuntz Thursday, August 30, 12