Research seminar: Jeremy Cooperstock and Yon Visell

Jeremy Cooperstock and Yon Visell, Center for Intelligent Machines, McGill University: Distributed and Multimodal Interaction in Virtual and Augmented Reality Environments

Abstract: Shared Reality aims to achieve high-fidelity distributed interaction, with both real and virtual data, at levels of presence that support the most demanding applications.  We describe two sets of activities in this context, the first dealing with high-fidelity distributed human-human communication, and the second, human-ground interaction with acoustically, haptically and visually augmented synthetic surfaces.  Our goal is the creation of a realistic and dynamic area of ground that allows multiple, untethered users to engage in intuitive interaction via  locomotion in a virtual or augmented reality environment.  To this end, we present a floor-space design that provides the impression of walking on various terrains by rendering graphical, audio and haptic stimuli synchronously with low latency.