Description

Virtual Reality (VR) allows unique experiences where users can embody avatars that go beyond the limit of their real bodies. Such avatars may also be called “dissimilar avatars” as they differ from users’ real bodies by either subtle modifications (e.g., another body proportion, skin tone, etc.) or more extreme body changes (e.g., robot, animal, creature body, etc.). However, the study of dissimilar avatars is a complex multidisciplinary topic, and despite the increasing interest in them, a lot of challenges remain to be overcome to fully take advantage of their benefits. Given the sparsity and multi-disciplinary dimension of research related to dissimilar avatars, it tends to lack a common understanding and methodology to explore them. In this topic we want to investigate how two users can control a non human avatar already developped.

Tasks

• Develop the networking of the nonhuman avatar
• Develop experimental tasks to demonstrate and test co-embodiment of nonhuman avatar
• Run an experiment to evaluate the avatar

Requirements

• Knowledge of English language (source code, comments, and final report should be in English)
• Programming skills (C/C++/C#)
• Knowledge of Unity 3D and VR is advantageous

Environment

The project will be developed in Unity3D, with HTC Vive or Oculus Quest for VR immersion.

Responsible

For more information please contact Hugo Brument (https://www.vr.tuwien.ac.at/people/hugo-brument/) hugo.brument@tuwien.ac.at

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