We are proud to announce that our project PraktikApp will take part at this year’s IFA NEXT from the 02.09 to 06.09 in Berlin.
The goal of the Goethe project was to digitally resurrect one of the most influential German poets of all time. By means of modern technology, we created a virtual image of Goethe’s life mask, offering visitors a novel way to approach the poet.
The dance piece and choreographic installation Spheres is an artistic research project at the intersection of dance, philosophical discourse on bodies and agency. Five spherical robots move seemingly independently alongside three dancers in the exhibition space and open the dialogue on connections and physicalities of different agents. The installation focuses on the exchange between human and other beings and on the question of how movement can be transformed within and through different bodies by decomposing interaction principles and artistic discourse.
In what follows we will compare the two game engines Unity and Unreal with respect to the realization of an augmented reality (AR) application. The comparison is based on the visual quality and the technological possibilities of our current state of development and experience.
Can performers, audience and technology interact with each other in a symbiotic manner? Charlotte Triebus has been working on answering this question for the past three years. With ‘Spheres’ (2020), the artist created a choreographic installation as an interface between intimacy, communication, and artificial intelligence. It enables two performers, up to twelve intelligent spheres, and the visitors to interact with as well as react to each other.
There is a substantial number of body tracking systems (BTS), which cover a wide variety of different technology, quality and price range for character animation, dancing or gaming. To the disadvantage of developers and artists, almost every BTS streams out different protocols and tracking data. Not only do they vary in terms of scale and offset, but also their skeletal data differs in rotational offsets between joints and in the overall number of bones
Gesturing with arms, hands and fingers is a natural part of conversations. That is why we have developed a system that is able to track finger movement with a high accuracy. This allows users of mixed reality to have a virtual conversation without having to forgo complex gestures.
MireviMotionHub is a middleware for multiple body tracking systems and it unifies them in a single plug-in for the Unity game engine.
The perception of the movement of the own fingers is important in VR. Also the sense of touch of the hands provide crucial information about an object that is touched. This is especially noticeable when climbing in VR. While prototyping a VR climbing application, we developed the finger tracking glove g 1. Glove g 1 enables the perception of the finger movements but limits the sense of touch of the hand.
When people talk to each other, they do not only use the various facets of language and voice to convey information, but also their facial expressions. The latter are an essential part of our social interaction, and communication in virtual reality (VR) has been lacking this factor entirely as of yet. That is why we explore the possibilities of face tracking technology in this project.
In order to be able to move 3D characters in a virtual environment, they have to be provided with a skeleton. The vertices of the mesh (of the 3D character) are connected to the joints of the skeleton. Animations can then be applied to the skeleton, which lead to deformation of the mesh or movement of the character.
In diesem Beitrag stellen wir die Ergebnisse eines einwöchigen Workshops mit dem Ziel der Überprüfung des Nutzens alternativer Arbeitsprozesse zur Erforschung künstlerisch-wissenschaftlicher Synergiepotentiale im tänzerischen Umfeld vor. Der Workshop fand zwischen Teilnehmern aus dem kreativ-tänzerischen Umfeld und Teilnehmern aus dem wissenschaftlich-technischen Umfeld statt. Während des Workshops kamen Technologien wie Motion-Capturing, Virtual Reality, Biosensorik und Muskelstimulation zum Einsatz, und es entstanden insgesamt sechs verschiedene Konzepte für und teilweise Umsetzungen von Installationen, Performances und Collagen.
Die Nutzererfahrung einer VR-Applikation, die eine Outdoor Virtual Environment (OVE) enthält, hängt von Kriterien wie der Präsenz während der Interaktion ab. Interagiert man mit einer OVE in einem geschlossenen Raum, können Wetterparameter nur simuliert werden. Die Immersion des Systems wird jedoch erhöht, wenn der Nutzer die Anwendung im Freien erlebt, und die natürlichen Gegebenheiten der realen Umgebung in die virtuelle Nutzererfahrung übertragen werden.
Have you ever dreamed of singing on an opera stage? With this project, we want to enable everyone to do just that - even without any vocal experience.
In diesem Paper wird ein neuartiger Ansatz eines Fingertracking-Systems auf Basis neuronaler Netze vorgestellt. Dazu werden mithilfe eines externen, optischen Trackingsystems kleine Marker (Ø 4 mm) an den Fingerspitzen erkannt, womit zwei neuronale Netze die Positionen aller Fingergelenke bestimmen.