Research & Development

The R&D department, composed by a team of research workers and expert engineers, ensures technology watch and produces new hardware solutions for interaction and visualization in virtual environments. These solutions enclose the iliGHT interactive table, the interactive and intuitive Cubtile for 3D objects manipulation, or navigation devices.
The team is also involved into European scale research projects on virtual reality, new multimodal interaction and visualization methods.

Immersion’s R&D also aims at bringing new innovative solutions on the market.
Every day, its activity relies on 3 core missions:
- Leading and anticipating technical progress of our booming market, thanks to our highly skilled team of engineers. Each year, Immersion is actively involved in at least one European high tech research project.
- Creating and developing new products and innovative solutions such as interactive tables (iliGHT project), intuitive interactive solutions (Cubtile project).
- Supporting industry on complex matters such as man to machine natural interfaces or multimodal interaction and visualization applications.

Scientific publications

Immersion bets on innovation. That is why its Research and Development Departement is very involved in terms of technologic and scientific monitoring. Scientific publications in newspapers or during conferences are recurrent and Immersion is also invited for round-table or symposium to share its expertness. You will find in this section the list of these publications.

Cubtile, the first multitouch 3D device

Cubtile™ is a cube that allows, due to its multitouch 3D tactile technology, intuitive manipulation of 3 dimension objects displayed on a screen. Cubtile applications are unlimited and provide new methods of interaction and visualization.

iliGHT Tactile table

Based on gesture (G), hand (H) and touch (T), the iliGHT table allows collaborative work on any collective project. Created by Immersion, iliGHT™ is an instinctive and innovative interface, easy to use and fully adaptable to any application.

Instinct

Instinct is a project of national research (ANR) that will be starting in autumn 2009 and will last for 3 years. This project aims at developing new tactile interfaces with a general public target.

CARE

IMMERSION coordinates the CARE national project that will end in 2010. Selected and co-financed by the ANR (National Agency for Research), CARE aims at implementing virtual reality technologies into the cultural world.

V- CITY

Financed by the European Union within the FP7, the V-CITY project aims at restoring cities in 3D and allows interaction and navigation inward the layout.

OPEN INTERFACE

Immersion joined the Open Interface consortium as a virtual reality technologies supplier.

CAT (Control Action Table)

The CAT (Control Action Table) results from a transfer of technology between the « Labri » (Bordeaux laboratory of Research in Computer Science), the « INRIA Sud-Ouest » (National Institute of Research In Computer Science and Automatics) and Immersion.

INSCAPE

The Inscape project aims at creating a software to create interactive 3D stories.

CRIMSON

This project which was completed in 2007, aimed at searching, developing, and validating an innovative system using the latest virtual reality technologies for preparation, training, and mission management in urban crisis times (terrorist attacks, hostage taking, NBCR crisis, etc).

GENIUS

The Genius project is co-financed by the ANR (National Agency for Research) and it will generate a design assisting tool in 2010.