Two people slipped into the same body . . . virtually!

Submitted on 15/10/2020

The experience is unprecedented. So much so that it has led to the invention of a word: co-incarnation. This experience consists of two people sharing the simultaneous control of one and the same avatar. This milestone opens up an array of possibilities, in particular in the field of VR-based training.

Débutées en 2018, les résultats de ces expériences surprenantes sont parus dans l'édition de juin 2020 du prestigieux journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ....
The finding of this astonishing experiment, beginning 2018 were published  in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics in June 2020.

 

First, let's give credit where credit is due, says Inria scientist Anatole Lécuyer, Researcher Inria and head of Hybrid research team.

The brunt of this work was carried out by two PhD students. Namely: Nami Ogawa, a visiting student from the University of Tokyo under supervision of Professor Michitaka Hirose, and Rebecca Fribourg, a PhD student co-directed by my colleagues Ludovic Hoyet, Ferran Argelaguet and myself. Both women happened to be working on rather similar scientific topics. So they decided they would team up. They joined forces, shared the same research topic and ...wound up sharing one same virtual body, which adds a funny quirk to the story.

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This nice result is the result of a successful collaboration between the Hybrid team and the Mimetic team.
Hybrid research team works on virtual reality and 3D interaction with virtual environments
Mimetic research team is focused on motion analysis, autonomous virtual humans, and physical activity in virtual reality.

 


Ouest France (6 octobre) – « Première mondiale : À Rennes, ils se retrouvent à deux dans un même corps… virtuel »
Sciences et avenir (12 octobre) – « La coincarnation, le contrôle plus ou moins partagé d’un même corps virtuel »

 

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