Distributed, Collaborative Virtual Reality Application for Product Development 
with Simple Avatar Calibration Method

Dixken, M; Diers, D; Wingert, B; Hatzipanayioti, A; Mohler, BJ; Riedel, O; Bues, M

doi:10.1109/VR.2019.8797884

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Distributed, Collaborative Virtual Reality Application for Product Development with Simple Avatar Calibration Method

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Hatzipanayioti, A
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
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Dixken, M., Diers, D., Wingert, B., Hatzipanayioti, A., Mohler, B., Riedel, O., et al. (2019). Distributed, Collaborative Virtual Reality Application for Product Development with Simple Avatar Calibration Method. In 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) (pp. 1299-1300). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. doi:10.1109/VR.2019.8797884.

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Abstract

In this work we present a collaborative virtual reality application for distributed engineering tasks, including a simple avatar calibration method. Use cases for the application include CAD review, ergonomics analyses or virtual training. Full-body avatars are used to improve collaboration in terms of co-presence and embodiment. Through a calibration process, scaled avatars based on body measurements can be generated by users from within the VR application. We demonstrate a simple, yet effective method for measuring the human body which requires off-the-shelf VR devices only. Tracking only the user’s head and hands, we use inverse kinematics for avatar motion reconstruction.