Immersive technologies are a powerful tool for prevention and education. Immersion allows you to see the reality of today or tomorrow. In this way, virtual reality can help to raise awareness of our impact on the environment. Laval Virtual has selected five use cases that…
VR research team at the service of transport users
13 October 2020
ESTACA, an engineering school for new mobilities, and CLARTE, a technological resource centre specialized in Virtual and Augmented Reality, are creating a common research team to develop virtual reality technologies in transport systems.
Virtual reality and augmented…
What benefits can virtual reality bring to teaching?
13 October 2020
Teaching has undergone a small revolution in recent months. New technologies have played an important role in this transition. New practices have emerged, and immersive techniques have proven their value to teachers. What are the contributions of virtual reality to teaching?
Virtual Human Project: the toolbox for avatar animation
6 October 2020
How to imagine a good immersion in Virtual Reality without a sense of social presence with the virtual characters populating the environments? For Geoffrey Gorisse, assistant professor at the Arts et Métiers institute of Laval, avatar visual and behavioral consistency…
How virtual reality helps to fight sexism at work
5 October 2020
Since the birth of the #metoo movement, we hear more and more about sexism and new hashtags to denounce sexist actions emerge every week. Present in all levels of companies, prevention of sexism represents a real dilemma. Training everyone costs a lot of money, but so as not…
The sensations of mountain biking in virtual reality
25 September 2020
A bicycle shop in the Netherlands opened a new installation: Ride Out. This is a virtual reality experience that allows you to ride a mountain bike as if you were in real life. It is based on figures and movements performed by the Scottish champion Danny MacAskill, who is…