Peloton

Ensor, J. Robert; Carraro, Gianpaolo U.

doi:10.1145/259081.259285

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Dynamically simulated characters in virtual environments

Brogan

Metoyer

Hodgins

1998

IEEE Comput. Grap. Appl.

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A nimated characters can play the role of teachers or guides, teammates or competitors, or just provide a source of interesting motion in virtual environments. Characters in a compelling virtual environment must have a variety of complex and interesting behaviors, and be responsive to the user's actions. The difficulty of constructing such synthetic characters currently hinders the development of these environments, particularly when realism is required. In this article, we present one approach to populating virtual environments-using dynamic simulation to generate the motion of characters. We explore this approach's effectiveness with two virtual environments: the Border collie environment, in which the user acts as a Border collie to herd robots into a corral, and the Olympic bicycle race environment, in which the user participates in a bicycle race with synthetic competitors (see Figure 1). Motion for characters in virtual environments can be generated with keyframing, motion capture, or dynamic simulation. All three approaches require a tradeoff between the level of control given to the animator and the automatic nature of the process. Animators require detailed control when creating subtle movements that are unique or highly stylized. Generating expressive facial animations usually requires this low level of control. Automatic methods are beneficial because they can interactively produce motion for characters based on the continuously changing state of the user and other characters in the virtual environment.

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Dynamically simulated characters in virtual environments

Brogan

Metoyer

Hodgins

1998

IEEE Comput. Grap. Appl.

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Development of Ground Surface Simulator for Tel-E-Merge system

Noma¹,

Sugihara²,

Miyasato³

Proceedings IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 (Cat. No.00CB37048)

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Walking-pad

Bouguila

Évéquoz

Courant

et al. 2004

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

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This paper presents a new locomotion interface that provides users with the ability to engage in a life-like walking experience using stepping in place. Stepping actions are performed on top of a flat platform that has an embedded grid of switch sensors that detect footfalls pressure. Based on data received from sensors, the system can compute different variables that represent user's walking behavior such as walking direction, walking speed, standstill, jump, and walking. The overall platform status is scanned at a rate of 100Hz with which we can deliver real-time visual feedback reaction to user actions. The proposed system is portable and easy to integrate into major virtual environment with large projection feature such as CAVE and DOME systems. The overall weight of the Walking-Pad is less than 5 Kg and can be connected to any computer via USB port, which make it even controllable via a portable computer.

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Dynamically simulated characters in virtual environments

Dynamically simulated characters in virtual environments

Development of Ground Surface Simulator for Tel-E-Merge system

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