Creating reactive motions with conventional motioncapture systems is difficult because they require a variety of task environments. To overcome this drawback, we developed the reactive motion capture system that combines the conventional motion capture system with haptic feedback and a human-scale virtual environment. Our objective is to acquire reactive motion data generated from the interacti...

This paper is in the field of tele-immersion, which pertains to the use of technology to virtually represent three dimensional bodies from remote locations. The primary goal of the project is to integrate real time motion capture data into the existing virtual environment and subsequently minimize the time required to render the bodies when facial movements and other detailed characteristics ar...

This paper describes a new system for panoramic two-way video communication. Digitally combining images from an array of inexpensive video cameras results in a wide-field panoramic camera, from inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware. This system can aid distance learning in several ways, both by presenting a better view of the instructor and teaching materials to the students, and by enabling bette...

This paper describes a framework for animating virtual characters in real-time environments thanks to motion capture data. In this paper, we mainly focus on the adaptation of motion capture data to the virtual skeleton and to its environment. To speed-up this real-time process we introduce a morphology-independent representation of motion. Based on this representation, we have redesigned the me...

This paper is a practice and experience paper on the use of a low cost motion capture system. We describe the integration of the Optitrack motion capture system with HALCA a hardware accelerated library for character animation in a Virtual Reality system called XVR. We demonstrate our system by mapping in real-time the tracked whole body motions of a person onto a virtual character which is vis...