SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 is proud to host its first VR Showcase program. This new program aims to provide a highly visible and energetic venue to explore emerging trends and applications in virtual reality. The VR Showcase offers exciting opportunities for attendees to delve deep into digital worlds, try state-of-the-art technologies, and experience new approaches for creative expression and collaboration within immersive environments.
Viblock: block-shaped content manipulation in VR
VR is increasingly becoming an interaction platform that allows users to display and manipulate various digital content such as text, computer graphic, 3D model, amination, and sound in a 3D space. In this work, we seek an enjoyable interface to manage ...
Be closer as you being there: HMD-based social interaction system
- Joung-Huem Kwon,
- Yong-Ho Lee,
- Young-Uk Kim,
- Eun-Seok Choi,
- Hyuk-Min Kwon,
- Gyeong-Soo Noh,
- Eun-Mi Lee,
- Sang-Hun Nam,
- Joong-Jae Lee,
- Bum-Jae You
The proposed system dose not only provides an immersive live 360 degree experience through the HMD-controlled remote stereoscopic cameras but also enables the users to perform social activities with an interactive virtual messenger. This system was ...
Real-time facial tracking in virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) emerges as the next social computing platform. For realizing immersive social interactions, projecting facial expressions onto the virtual avatar a crucial component. This is a challenge in VR as it requires capturing the facial ...
The battle for hearts and minds: interrogation and torture in the age of war: an adaptation for oculus rift
Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project is a Virtual Reality art installation developed using a novel method for direct output of the Unity-based virtual reality projects into CAVE2™ [Febretti et al. 2013] environment. This artwork incorporates ...
Tunable, a VR reconstruction of "Listening to a Guqin" from emperor Zhao Ji
With rumors of painted by the Emperor Zhao Ji, who subjugated his nation of Song, as a portrait of himself and his corrupted courtiers Cai Jing and Tong Guan. The work of art has been highly valued not only for being a masterpiece of the painter's ...
Interactive virtual reality animation STRAY SHEEP
"STRAY SHEEP" is a virtual reality character animation, which uses Oculus. This narrative film follows a quirky and curious lost sheep. The viewer will explore various imaginative environments made from common items of a child's daily life by following ...
Real-time diagnostic data in multi-user virtual reality post-stroke therapy
We present a novel multi-user virtual reality (VR) environment for post-stroke rehabilitation that can be used independently in the home to improve upper extremity motor function. This project represents a collaborative multidisciplinary approach to ...
VRgram
In this work, we will present our virtual reality experiencing application, VRgram. We will describe its concept, mechanism and functionalities.
Rhapsody
Rhapsody is a music video created with live-action video and visual effects. Audience can experience a fantastic environment with virtual reality device.
Urbanite's life is busy for the miserably long working hours. An old photo on your office desk may ...
Journey to the centre of the cell (JTCC): a 3D VR experience derived from migratory breast cancer cell image data
Journey to the Centre of the Cell (JTCC) is a multi-disciplinary initiative exploring the visualisation of nanotechnology. This particular VR research work demonstrates how Virtual Reality (VR) on HTC Vive head mounted display (HMD) can be used as a ...
Robo recall
Robo Recall is an action-packed virtual reality first-person shooter with gratifying gameplay and an in-depth scoring system. Explore immersive environments as you take on a variety of rogue robots, unlock an expanding arsenal of weapons and access all-...
Rectifeye: a vision-correcting system for virtual reality
Most head-mounted displays for Virtual Reality (VR) are designed for users with perfect eyesight. Wearing prescription eyeglasses inside such a headset can be uncomfortable, or even impossible if the glasses do not fit (Fig. 1, left). While some ...
A novel dexterous instrument tracking system for augmented reality cataract surgery training system
Cataract surgery is one of the most common operations performed worldwide. Therefore, the computer aided training system is important to reduce the risk resulted from an inexperience surgery performance. We introduced a novel optical tracking method for ...
How oculus story studio created an immersive illustrated story
In many ways, Oculus Story Studio's upcoming VR experience, "Dear Angelica" (Fig. 1), is a unique project. We wanted to immerse the viewers inside a series of hand-drawn illustrations, and tell a story by artfully transitioning between different ...
Index Terms
- SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 VR Showcase
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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SIGGRAPH ASIA '10 | 274 | 49 | 18% |
SIGGRAPH Asia '09 | 275 | 70 | 25% |
SIGGRAPH Asia '08 | 320 | 59 | 18% |
Overall | 869 | 178 | 20% |