Welcome to the Ys.AI website !
The metaverse became a buzzword following recent announcements about massive investments in entirely (or mixed) virtual universes. Such a technological and societal shift is based on the development of a large number of technologies (AR/VR/XR, blockchain/NFT, AI, CG, low latency networks, interactions, coding, rendering…).
As many other tech actors, InterDigital and Inria foresee high potential in the development of metaverse technologies and its associated representation formats. They created a common lab, Nemo.AI, and launched a first project entitled Ys.AI to address some of these new challenges.
In this context, the representation of the humans within those mixed real and virtual environments but also how they interact between each other and with the scene (inc. the objects) is a key concept. It enables an improved user experience and an increased immersion in the virtual environment. The project goal is thus to address this topic with a special focus on the representation formats for digital avatars and their behavior in a digital and responsive environment.
It includes, for instance, the use of Artificial Intelligence (eg Deep Learning) applied to improve several aspects of an avatar (the virtual representation of the user), such as its body, clothes or hair animations but also the interactivity with an emphasis on haptics technologies. The main objective is to mitigate the Uncanny Valley effect while keeping the energy and other resources consumption to a resonable level, in order to provide users with responsible and lifelike immersive experiences.
Inria partners:
- Combo / MimeTIC (Rennes)
- VirtUs (Rennes)
- Morpheo (Grenoble)
- Seamless / Hybrid (Rennes)
InterDigital partners:
- InteractiveMedia (Rennes)
- SympAI (Rennes)
You can learn also more about the Nemo.ai lab in which the project will evolve.
