Winners of IVRC2014 Final!

IVRC2014 Final took place in MIRAIKAN, Tokyo, JAPAN from October 23 to October 26.
Awards of IVRC2014 Final were selected by jury committee, sponsors and visitors. Congratulations!

Youth Category

• Gold：Haunted Oculus（team:Mathematical Science Club 3D / Rikkyo Ikebukuro Junior & Senior High School）
• Silver：I Wish Eyewash（team:GNCT Task Force Gungle / Gunma National College of Technology）
• Bronze：Shadowgraph（team:SpicyⅦ / Matsumoto Technical High School）

University Category

• 1st place (Overroll Winner): CHILDHOOD（team:Champignon / University of Tsukuba）
• 2nd place (VRSJ Award): Vibro-Skate（team:Darake Haptics / Tokyo institute of technology）
• 3rd place (Kawakami Award): Virtual highline（team:Koraku / Osaka University）
• Special Recognition Award: Overflown（team:’3/4 / L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, France）

Sponsors Awards

• Laval Virtual Award：CHILDHOOD（team:Champignon / University of Tsukuba）
• Microsoft Award: HauntedOculus（team:Mathematical Research Club 3D / Rikkyo Ikebukuro Junior & Senior High School）
• Christie Digital Systems Award: CHILDHOOD（team:Champignon / University of Tsukuba）

（Special Recognition Award: sharedFace (team: Moréaré, McGill University, Canada)

• Solidray Award: Peeling Museum（team:Peeling Curator / Meijo University）
• Unity Technologies Japan Award: Vibro-Skate（team:Darake Haptics / Tokyo institute of technology）

MIRAIKAN Awards (voted by visitors)

• Virtual highline（team:Koraku / Osaka University）
• Haunted Oculus（team:Mathematical Science Club 3D / Rikkyo Ikebukuro Junior & Senior High School）

BoF@SIGGRAPH2014!

We will have Birds of a Feather meeting at ACM SIGGRAPH2014 in Vancouver.

IVRC: International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest

Sunday, 10 August 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Vancouver Convention Centre, ACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Building, Room 210

Welcome to IVRC!

IVRC is the acronym of “International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest”, which has been held since 1993 and is the contest of Interactive products using advanced technologies such as virtual reality and robots. Our English name changed for internationalization in 2004, because we began to invite awarded teams from the French VR contest “Laval Virtual”.

When you hear the words such as “Virtual Reality” and “robot”, you should feel that special expensive machines are nessesary to realize them. Though, there are many ideas which can be actualized only with handmade machines. The main purpose of this contest is for participants to gain deeper understanding of and familiarity with interactive technologies through activities such as planning interactive systems, making devices themselves, and improving quality of their contents.

IVRC is not only a contest, but also the cooperative attempt of district, industry, and academy, to construct the new education system of the 21st century to develop the excellent human resources, who can think, learn, and work for themselves.

IVRC2014 Accepted Works from Overseas

IVRC Award @Laval Virtual

• STUART (Grégoire Davenas, Benoît Senand & Marc Teyssie, L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, France)
  

International Video Submission

• Overflown (team: ‘3/4, L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, France)
  Overflown uses virtual reality to allow the user to embody the wind, which is an intangible and uncontrollable entity. This mixed reality and poetic experience associates a dreamlike world with tangible propellers. With hand movements, the player affects wind, allowing him to control the trajectory of a virtual soap-bubble.
  
• sharedFace (team: Moréaré, McGill University, Canada)
  sharedFace enables a participant to become a desired character using a face mask and dynamic projection mapping. Other participants can switch the theme of the projection or paint on the mask through mobile web browsers, which is intended as an art performance and a novel communication tool between the participants.