Virtual Embodiment
Research
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With motion controllers and full-body motion capture it is possible to translate your physical movements to a virtual avatar. How this avatar looks like and behaves doesn’t have to be limited to the rules of the physical world.
I wanted to know how this would feel. How would it feel if you where multiple copies of yourself? Or if you shared the same body with somebody else? Or if you were a goat? Or how would it feel if you where an abstract entity? Or just a pair of eyes connected to a brain?
Resources used:
| Hardware: | HTC Vive (Pro) | used as HMD’s |
| OptiTrack Motion Capture System | used for full-body motion capture | |
| Leap Motion | used for hand tracking | |
| Software: | Unity | game engine |
| Visual Studio | coding | |
| Blender | 3D modeling | |
| Motive | motion capture software | |
| OSC Bridge | used to send motion data to multiple computers | |
| Unity Assets: | SteamVR | used for VR support |
| Final IK | used to translate movements between different sizes of people and avatars | |
| Resources: | Mixamo | for the avatars |
| Adobe Fuse | for the avatars |