Avatar embodiment realism and virtual fitness training

Lugrin, Jean-Luc; Landeck, Maximilian; Latoschik, Marc Erich

doi:10.1109/vr.2015.7223377

Cited by 45 publications

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“…Both studies demonstrate that the avatar influences the overall experience on VR and expands this experience to the user in the physical world. Similar results were obtained in a study by Lugrin et al (2015), confirming that behavior and performance are indeed altered by avatar representation.…”

Section: Avatar Embodimentsupporting

confidence: 87%

Peer Review #1 of "A method for creating interactive, user-resembling avatars (v0.1)"

2017

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Virtual reality (VR) applications have disseminated throughout several fields, with a special quest for immersion. The avatar is one of the key constituents of immersive applications, and avatar resemblance can provoke diverse emotional responses from the user. Yet, a lot a virtual reality systems struggle to implement real lifelike avatars. In this work, we propose a novel method for creating interactive, user-resembling avatars using available commercial hardware and software. Avatar visualization is possible with a point-cloud or a contiguous polygon surface, and avatar interactions with the virtual scenario happens through a body joint-approximation for contact. In addition, the implementation could be easily extended to other systems and its modular architecture admits improvement both on visualization and physical interactions. The code is under Apache License 2.0 and is freely available as supplemental material.

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Section: Avatar Embodimentsupporting

confidence: 87%

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2017

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“…Both studies demonstrate that the avatar influences the overall experience on VR and expands this experience to the user in the physical world. Similar results were obtained in a study by Lugrin, Landeck & Latoschik (2015), confirming that behavior and performance are indeed altered by avatar representation.…”

Section: Avatar Embodimentsupporting

confidence: 86%

A method for creating interactive, user-resembling avatars

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2017

PeerJ Computer Science

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Virtual reality (VR) applications have disseminated throughout several fields, with a special quest for immersion. The avatar is one of the key constituents of immersive applications, and avatar resemblance can provoke diverse emotional responses from the user. Yet a lot a virtual reality systems struggle to implement real life-like avatars. In this work, we propose a novel method for creating interactive, user-resembling avatars using available commercial hardware and software. Avatar visualization is possible with a point-cloud or a contiguous polygon surface, and avatar interactions with the virtual scenario happens through a body joint-approximation for contact. In addition, the implementation could be easily extended to other systems and its modular architecture admits improvement both on visualization and physical interactions. The code is under Apache License 2.0 and is freely available as Supplemental Information 1 in this article.

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“…Avatars are a core part of VR applications like social communication [28], sports training [21], or healthcare [20]. A major line of scientific work has focused on how to make such avatars more realistic, interactive, and autonomous [10,24,33].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%