{"id":258,"date":"2016-10-19T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/?p=258"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:12:07","slug":"virtual-meeting-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/2016\/10\/19\/virtual-meeting-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Meeting environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project Description:<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this project is to create a virtual meeting place where two individuals in VR will be able to meet and be able to talk to each other in virtual environment. It requires transmission of real-time tracking data about both user\u2019s body movements as well as facial expression and lip movements. I feel we can use Microsoft Kinect to track body movements and project it using a default avatar. Or every user will be photographed before using this application and that can be used as an avatar in VE. The difficult part I feel is the face tracking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Project Type:<\/p>\n<p>Experience\/Experiment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interest:<\/p>\n<p>This is a project that I would like to do<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Device(s) to Be Used:<\/p>\n<p>HTC Vive\/Oculus Rift and Microsoft Kinect<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Things I Know How To Do:<\/p>\n<p>Never worked on VR\/graphics project before but have a good understanding of computer programming and using APIs. Know how to create a communication link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Things I Would Need Help With:<\/p>\n<p>Tracking face and projecting lip movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Description: The goal of this project is to create a virtual meeting place where two individuals in VR will be able to meet and be able to talk to each other in virtual environment. It requires transmission of real-time tracking data about both user\u2019s body movements as well as facial expression and lip movements. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}