virtual reality – Page 2 – Student Projects

[Unavailable] Cinematic Lighting in VR: Enhancing Emotional Storytelling Through Real-Time Illumination

Rachel McDonnell (email | all projects)

[FYP or MSc Level] This project will explore how lighting design, informed by cinematography and psychological theories, can be used to enhance emotional expressivity in characters and user immersion within a real-time VR open-world environment. The student will research emotional lighting techniques from film and psychology—such as color theory, contrast, and lighting direction—and apply them … Read more

[Unavailable] Learned Motion Matching for body-swapping experiences in VR

Rachel McDonnell (email | all projects)

[MSc level] In this project, you will investigate learned motion matching and how it can be used for embodiment in VR, in particular body-swapping, where the user takes on the motion of somebody else. Student must be taking the Real Time Animation module and also a machine learning module and have strong programming in Unreal … Read more

[TAKEN] How does it feel if your avatar in Virtual Reality is wearing realistic clothing?

Rachel McDonnell (email | all projects)

[FYP or MSc Level] This project will investigate clothing a virtual character using existing cloth plugins (e.g. uDraper or Marvelous Designer), and applying them to photorealistic Metahuman characters in UE5. Cloth simulation will then be tested using Chaos cloth or other, and student will create an embodiment system, where the user can embody a character … Read more

[Unavailable] Enfacement for Deep Fakes

Rachel McDonnell (email | all projects)

CitizenMetaOne Youtuber live capture setup [FYP or MSc level] Become a virtual youtuber, and create your own live Metahuman system setup, using HTC Vive controllers for tracking the hands and a webcam for capturing the face. This project will use pre-existing animation plugins in Unreal Engine as a starting point (Faceware for the facial capture, … Read more