VR+4CAD
Closing the VR-loop around the Human in
Computer-Aided Design
About
What is VR+4CAD?
The goal of VR+4CAD is to address a series of recurring limitations that prevent a wider adoption of Virtual Reality (VR) by the manufacturing and design industries.
VR+4CAD aims for CAD-authored design to be automatically converted and adapted for human interaction within a virtual environment. Interaction is made more immediate by means of an experimental, markerless motion capture system. Its acquired data is further analyzed via Human Activity Recognition (HAR) techniques and transformed into implicit feedback. Both explicit and implicit feedback are merged and sent back to the CAD operator for the next design iteration.
Objectives
What challenges?
Objective 1
Automatic conversion of CAD data to VR content ready for human interaction
Objective 2
Enabling VR-based explicit annotation of CAD data for future design cycles
Objective 3
Integrate full-body user representation through markerless motion capture
Objective 4
Provide implicit feedbacks about the user experience using HAR
Benefits
Major impacts
Benefit 1
Remove the reliance on costly physical prototypes
Benefit 2
Reduce the number of design iterations through explicit and implicit feedback
Benefit 3
Simplify the evaluation of designs for ergonomics and manipulability
Benefit 4
Design and develop in a more ecological and sustainable manner