"VENISE" V&AR Group

Virtuality and Immersive ENvironments for Simulation and Experiments

VENISE is the Virtual & Augmented Reality (V&AR) research team of the CNRS/LIMSI lab. Our research aims at developing methods and tools to make immersive and collaborative interactions more "natural" or more intuitive, either in virtual worlds or in virtual worlds coupled to the real one. We strive at making our models generic enough so that they apply to a large range of immersive environments, such as collaborative (RAVE, CAVE, Workbench ...), individual (HMD, see-through ...), or multi-sensorimotor (stereoscopic, 3D audio, haptic ). We develop and test the usefulness of our concepts in the context of different application areas. >>> OPEN PROPOSALS for Post-Doc, PhD thesis, Master thesis, and Internships (clic on this link)

Research topics

Interaction models for V&AR Interactive paradigms for Virtual Navigation Sensorimotor channels for 3D interactions Multimodal and Collaborative Immersion Mixed Reality and Teleoperation Data models and simulation models in V&AR Molecular Simulation Explorations of CFD simulations Simulation of Physical phenomena inaccessible to direct experience Design, Engineering & Manufacturing Our main application fields are: Industries, Sciences (Physic, Biology, Cognitive and Social), Education and Training.

EVE System (Evolutive Virtual Environment)

The VENISE group has worked during several years on the specification of the EVE System, a large and reconfigurable immersive Virtual Environment, dealing with multi-sensorimotor and collaborative aspects of human interactions within Virtual or Augmented worlds. Actually, EVE system includes many original features, whose combination is currently unique in the world: Visual display (BARCO technology) composed of several 5m-high HD screens surrounding a 13m² floor glass screen, one surrounding screen articulated for the management of two immersive geometries: CAVE vs Wall; Multi-stereoscopy to provide an exact visual depth perception for separate groups of people, in order to study co-localised immersive collaborations; 3D audio facilities (Binaural and Ambisonic), visual projectors enclosed in acoustic casings, full system settled in a large room with strict acoustical constraints; Haptic feedbacks over the full zone of the 13m² floor glass screen (cf. Scale 1 / Boom 3D device of HAPTION). More information on EVE system is available here.

V&AR applications developed by the VENISE group

• Analysis and Simulation of large and complex 3D Scientific data
  

  Bioinformatics (CoRSAIRe ANR project)	Computer Fluid Dynamics (CoRSAIRe ANR project)

• Design, Engineering & Manufacturing
  

  VRAD: Virtual Reality Aided Design (Perf-RV RNTL and INTUITION IST FP6 projects)	MalCoMIICs: Multimodal and Colocalized Multi-user Interactions for Immersive Collaborations (Perf-RV2 ANR and SIMCoD Digiteo projects)

• SACARI: Supervision of an Autonomous Car in an Augmented viRtuality Interface (in cooperation with IEF and Intempora)
• Educational Virtual Environments and ILlustration of Science (EVEILS ANR project)
  

Main partnerships and projects of VENISE group

• Current projects
  • DIGIPOD (SESAME Ile-de-France council)
  • EXAVIZ (ANR)
  • DIGISCOPE (ANR Equipex)
• Past projects
  • EVEILS (ANR White Program)
  • SIMCoD (RTRA Digiteo)
  • Perf-RV2 (ANR RNTL)
  • CoRSAIRe (ANR MDMSA)
  • Perf-RV (RNTL)
  • INTUITION (NoE IST)

Scientific Animations or Meetings organized by VENISE

• Next event: The 10th EuroVR Conference(International meeting of the Virtual and Augmented Reality European Association), co-oragnised by VENISE team of CNRS/LIMSI and the CEA/LIST; planned on december 2013, Campus Orsay-Saclay, France.
• AFRV 2010 - 5th Meeting of AFRV (French Virtual Reality Association); Université Paris-Sud (co-organisation CNRS/LIMSI & CEA/LIST) ; 6, 7 and 8 december 2010, Orsay, France.
• EuroVR-EVE 2010, 1st European meeting of the Special Interest Groups of EuroVR in parallel with the inauguration of the EVE system ; Université Paris-Sud, 6 and 7 may 2010, Orsay, France.
• Laval Virtual 2003 : VR demonstrations and special session "Scientific Application of Virtual and Augmented Reality". 14-18 may 2003, Laval, France.
• Thematic School "Réalité Virtuelle et Sciences du Comportement" (Virtual Reality and Behavior Science) ; 19-23 may 2003, Marseille, France.
• Science Festival 2002 : VR demonstrations and animation of the CNRS stand. Gardens of the Ministry of Research. October 2002, Paris, France.
• Web Site of the former Scientific Action "Virtual Reality and Cognition" of the department STIC of CNRS.

V&AR "VENISE" group
Contact : Patrick.Bourdot@limsi.fr
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