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Great Economy Awards 2022
Created in 2012, the Great Economy Awards aim to promote and enhance the economic sector of Geneva. They also aim to honor companies whose reputation and influence convey a positive and dynamic image of Geneva. During the Great Economy Awards, held on September 20,...
First in Europe : Dreamscape, an immersive virtual reality center, opening in Geneva
Dreamscape Immersive, the virtual reality company backed by major Hollywood studios, announces the opening of its first European venue in Geneva in July 2022. Halfway between cinema and theme-park, Dreamscape offers its visitors a virtual reality experience like no...
Creating varied virtual populations
Virtual avatars play a key role in many of our activities. They embody the actors in our productions, serve as reliable subjects in our machine learning efforts, or are the virtual bodies we inhabit when going on an adventure in one of our experiences. In cases where...
Aboard The Mayflower
In November 1620, the passengers and crew of the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts and established a colony there. Among them were Puritan Reformists who had crossed the ocean to found a community in accordance with their aspirations, firmly rooted in...
3D character creation for interactive VR
The third year of VRTogether is in full swing, and despite the recent pandemic scare our consortium is hard at work creating the technology and content for our third-year pilot. As we have described before, pilot 3 will involve an interactive scenario where users take...
I know you! : The importance of accurate self-representation in VR
At the heart of the VR-Together project lies the objective to enable social VR experiences with strong feelings of immersion as well as co-presence. To achieve this strong social sense of sharing a space together, photorealistic real-time representations of users are...
Geneva 1850: A revolutionary journey
We are proud to announce the opening of the VR experience Geneva 1850: A Revolutionary Journey co-produced by Artanim and the Museums of Art and History of Geneva. The immersive installation will be open to public starting...
Dreamscape opens first permanent VR storefront
Dreamscape Immersive, the story-oriented VR company leveraging Artanim's VR technology and whose backers include movie chain AMC Entertainment and several Hollywood heavyweights (MGM, Warner, 21st Century Fox, Steven...
Your body feels good
Do you feel in control of the body that you see? This is an important question in virtual reality (VR) as it highly impacts the user’s sensation of presence and embodiment of an avatar representation while immersed in a virtual environment. To better understand this...
Shooting of the VR-Together Pilot 1
Artanim collaborated with Entropy Studio on the shooting of the first pilot of the VR-Together project. After a short flight from Madrid to Geneva, the actors were 3D scanned with our photogrammetric scanner consisting of 96 cameras, to obtain the 3D surface of their...