Accompanied by faculty lecturer Olivier Gendreau, the four students – Simon Dalpé, Julien Monat-Rodier, Guillaume Riendeau and Patrice Voutsinas – took first prize in Virtual Fantasy Limited Time, the competition involving 30 consecutive hours of programming and 3D modelling. During the competition, each team had to create a 3D application, interactive and in real time, using a mystery object particular to each team. This year, the students had the opportunity to use two new interfaces that are about to be brought to market: the Tobii Rex and the Leap Motion controller. Directly in relation to the mystery object they drew, the Polytechnique Montréal team members charmed the jury with a game they called “Chausse-pieds en folie,” drawing from both the Tobii Rex and the Leap Motion controller.

The Polytechnique Montréal team's “Poly-Pétanque” project, presented in the Demos category, received special mention from the IVRC  (International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest) award jury for programming quality. Providing a realistic simulation of a pétanque game, the project uses a screen striped with elastic bands, allowing the user to throw balls across the screen. Also, the effect of perspective augments the player's immersion, projecting onto the screen what the players would be seeing if they were in this virtual universe.

Our heartiest congratulations to the students for this honour!

See also:
A France 3 report on Laval Virtual 2013, including a segment on Polytechnique's “Poly-Pétanque” project (0:33 to 0:50, in French only).

Laval Virtual 2013 website