Overview

The Emotive VR art-science research project focuses on virtual reality and implicit interactions (EEG physiological sensors). It is a neuro-interactive film device in 360° VR, the pilot for which is entitled Freud, la dernière hypnose (Freud, the Last Hypnosis). The research’s artistic challenge is to create new narrative forms by exploring the possibilities offered by 360° virtual reality and the viewer’s emotions as data for interaction with the film. In parallel, the scientific challenge is to measure the viewer’s virtual reality experience through the prototype of a neuro-interactive film with two innovative modes: immersion of two viewpoints in an omnidirectional virtual reality film coupled with the EEG sensors to analyse the viewer’s emotions.

Research results

• In February 2018, 360° shooting of the pilot of the film Freud, la dernière hypnose by Marie-Laure Cazin.
• From February to April 2018, hosting two interns, Matias Harju, a Masters 1 Sound Design student at University of Aalto in Helsinki (Finland), and Christophe Rey, a Masters 1 Digital Creation student at Université de Toulouse.

Numerous presentations were organised in research symposiums and seminars in France and abroad.

Connection to the curriculum

• Organisation of an intersite workshop: Un neuro de plus (One more neuro), TALM-Tours, March 2018.

Informations sur le programme

• Campus: TALM-Le Mans
• Professor: Marie-Laure Cazin
• Partner : Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes (LS2N)
• Start date: 2017
• Fundings:
  • TALM;
  • ARTEX;
  • SCAM bourse Brouillon d’un rêve numérique 2016;
  • RFI OIC (appel à projet recherche 2017).