Build IoT through Virtual Reality

How Virtual Reality Meets the Industrial IoT

The increasing level of virtualization in our world is pushing us to get more and more devices connected to the internet. The same is happening in our cities where data, such as road information, air quality and traffic control, is being gathered and virtualized. This paper gives an overview of the concepts of Virtual Reality, (Industrial) Internet of Things and how they can be interconnected t...

AmbientVR: Blending IoT Interaction Capabilities with Web-based Virtual Reality

Emerging frameworks for Web-based Virtual Reality (WebVR) enable developers to easily create VR applications that can be experienced using a smart-phone, mobile web browser and a low-cost headset. Although WebVR has great promise, the limited input and output capabilities afforded by modern web browsers prevents user interaction with external VR controllers, precision hand tracking sensors and ...

Inducing Cooperation Through Virtual Reality

Studying altruism through virtual reality

A new SISSA study explores the areas of the brain involved in the processes that lead us to help others even at the cost of our own lives, A computer-based environment developed with the aim to shed light on the origins of altruism: this is the innovative approach used by a research group at SISSA in Trieste, in collaboration with the University of Udine. This new study-recently published in th...

An Identification Tool to build Physical Models for Virtual Reality

Virtual reality applications including visual and gestural man-machine interaction requires the use of particle-based deformable and articulated models. However, they lack the relevant model building methods, in order to ensure realistic behaviours based on observations of real-world objects. To this end, our research aims at looking for reliable physical model building mechanisms, which use ex...