My name is Sébastien Kuntz. I live in Paris, France.
( for the curious ones, Kuntz is short for Conrad, old German for “judicious advice”)
Do I like VR?
- I started working in VR in 2001.
- I am the founder of MiddleVR (formerly ” i’m in VR “, a company focusing on Virtual Reality services and tools, such as MiddleVR SDK (for Unity).
- I have worked four years on a VR Engine and two VR training simulators with a high level of interactivity (FIACRE and SIMURAT) at SNCF (french railways), with Philippe David. Both simulators won a Laval Virtual Award.
- I have worked at Virtools / Dassault Systèmes with David Nahon, as the lead Virtual Reality engineer for four years.
- I have created the VR Geeks association, which aims at creating cheap VR experiences.
- I was a board member of the French national VR association AFRV.
- I have been teaching introductory VR classes at engineering schools and at the game designers schools.
- In 2010 I have co-chaired the first 3D User Interfaces (3DUI) Grand Prize (see the results, the CG&A coverage).
Major Conferences / Academics
– SVVR 2015: Multi-user Professional Applications for VR
– IEEE VR 2015: Panels: “What’s new in VR?” , “Where is VR consumer market heading at?”
– Oculus Connect 2014 (#OC1): Professional VR applications
– IEEE VR 2014: SEARIS Workshop Keynote
– IEEE VR 2013: Panel: “The Future of Consumer Virtual Reality” (with Jason Jerald, Palmer Luckey, David A. Smith and Amir Rubin),
– VRST 2012: Keynote: “Improving the VR experience, from the authors to the users“,
– JVRC 2012: Panel “Game Engines vs. VR APIs: Pros and Cons for VR Application Development” (with Carolina Cruz-Neira, Dirk Reiners, Perdo Morilla and Roland Blach),
– IEEE VR 2012: Paper at the “Off-the shelf VR workshop“: “Low-cost and home-made immersive systems: For home or for work”, with Jan Ciger,
– Committee member VRIC 2010 – Displays of the near future,
– IEEE CG&A 2010 article: 3DUI 2010 Contest Grand Prize Winners,
– I have also organized workshops at the AFRV 2011 and AFRV 2009 conferences concerning VR democratization.
Personnal
In real life I enjoy photography, sport (horse riding, climbing, street hockey, freefall.. ), going to concerts and way too much other things.
What is VR ?
Here’s my definition.
With Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus:
With John Carmack, CTO of Oculus:
2001 – The Simurat simulator (with Philippe David)
In La Geode with David Nahon
Hi There
Im interested in more details about the Omni directional treadmill you posted on Youtube…. where is it? is it commercially available? …further, I do see some drift. is this something that you are working wirh? ..also some questions about interfacing
cheers
Oshri
Good Day Sébastien!
I too, am interested in the Omni directional treadmill as well as the practical application of your work in our industry.
Thanks for your time.
Barry
Hi
I want to thank you about this blog..It is very useful
I am studying VR in MMU in Malysia..I dont have any idea about my future job..Can you give me an example of work fields..I mean that when I can work after graduation..
Thank you
Hi,
thank you for your nice words =)
For a list of the different applications your could start by reading this article : http://cb.nowan.net/blog/state-of-vr/
Then you can also create your own field, there is a lot to be created!
Then it also depends on wether you want to be on the low level programming side, or the 3D modelling side, or the experience creation (high level scriptig).
Anyway, do what you like, happiness will follow =)
Let me know about your decision and maybe see you one day in Malaysia !
cheers
Hi, your site is one of the few truly informative HMD sites on the net, thanks for your efforts.
Have you come across the VR1440? It appears to be a succesor to the VR920 for consumer use, but information is scarce.
Hi Neil,
I have never heard of this HMD but I sure hope it has more resolution and FOV =)
Let me know if you find more information !
Salut Seb,
j’ai un client qui veux pouvoir passer ses slides powerpoint avec sa main…
pas de gants, pas de lunettes… genre devant une webcam.
As tu une solution pour ca ?
Merci,
Martin
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