Crowd Simulation is an essential interactive component in VR Rehearsal. Reacting to the speaker’s eye contact and voice fluency, virtual audience improves the immersion of the virtual reality experience, and provide real-time feedback to the speaker. Simulating human behavior is no easy job, and our goal is not to produce super realistic behavior, but to Read more about Crowd Simulation[…]

Since the presenter always stand at the same location in front of the audiences, it is harder for him/her to notice those at back then those sitting at the first row. Therefore, we decided to use models with different level of detail based on the sitting positions of the audiences so that the application could Read more about Graphics & Optimization #2: Character LOD[…]

It is always necessary to squeeze out every drop of performance in order to run a 3D app on an Android phone. Running the app in VR even doubles the necessity and difficulty. Fortunately, for VR Rehearsal, the fact that the position of presenter and virtual audiences in the environment remains still makes it possible to Read more about Graphics & Optimization #1: Lighting[…]