CMIC staff present their paper "Adventures in Hologram Space” and poster/demo “VR Simulation for Radiation Therapy Education” at VRST 2019

CMIC post-doc researcher Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos and Daniel Medeiros had the opportunity to present their latest paper and poster/demo at the VRST2019 conference in Sydney, Australia.

holograms-teaser — Volumetric projection-based telepresence in fictional visions of the future do not guarantee eye-contact. For instance, the character in (A) is looking down, while the character in (B) is looking forward, thus, their eye gaze does not match. We present a design space where (C) and (D) can communicate with eye-contact.

Rafael and Daniel presented their paper "Adventures in Hologram Space: Exploring the Design Space of Eye-to-eye Volumetric Telepresence" at the paper program.

Modern volumetric projection-based telepresence approaches are capable of providing realistic full-size virtual representations of remote people. Interacting with full-size people may not be desirable due to the spatial constraints of the physical environment, application context, or display technology. However, miniaturizing remote people can create eye-gaze matching problems. Eye-contactis essential to communication as it allows for people to use natural nonverbal cues and improves the sense of “being there”. In this paper we discuss the design space for interacting with volumetric representations of people and present an approach to dynamical lymanipulate scale, orientation and position of holograms that guarantees eye-contact. Results garnered from a 14 participant test of our Augmented Reality prototype show improved collaboration and mutual participant awareness.

"Adventures in Hologram Space: Exploring the Design Space of Eye-to-eye Volumetric Telepresence".
Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos (CMIC, Victoria University of Wellington, INESC-ID / Universidade de Lisboa),
Maurício Sousa (INESC-ID / Universidade de Lisboa),
Daniel Medeiros (CMIC, Victoria University of Wellington, INESC-ID / Universidade de Lisboa),
Daniel Mendes (INESC-ID / Universidade de Lisboa),
Mark Billinghurst (ITMS, University of South Australia),
Craig Anslow (School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington),
Joaquim Jorge (INESC-ID / Universidade de Lisboa)
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Daniel and Rafael presented a poster and demo as well.

LINACVR is the first VR radiation therapy treatment tool for both radiation therapist training and patient education. LINACVR includes a multi-user mode for the radiation therapist training, and a portable headset version for the patient education simulation.

"LINACVR: VR Simulation for Radiation Therapy Education"
Haydn Bannister
Ben Selwyn-Smith
Craig Anslow (School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington)
Brian Robinson
Rafael K dos Anjos (CMIC, Victoria University of Wellington, INESC-ID / Universidade de Lisboa)
Daniel Pires (CMIC, Victoria University of Wellington, INESC-ID / Universidade de Lisboa)
Paul Kane
Aidan Leong

VRST 2019, 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology was held from November 12 - 15th, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.