Vanity Mirror
PULSE of CYENS
Description
Vanity Mirror is a real-time Unreal Engine MetaHuman facial capture experience that lets visitors become and customise a digital avatar. Users can choose a main character, add accessories such as glasses, hats, and makeup, and calibrate two facial expressions such as smiling and frowning.
The system can exaggerate these expressions and creatively invert them, displaying the opposite emotion on one avatar while another reflects the user’s live expression. Webcam-tracked ArUco markers drive the interaction, controlling the experience while simultaneously handling real-time facial capture.
Affiliations
CYENS Centre Of Excellence: PULSE Team – Development and Design Team
Limassol Theatre Museum – Client and Key Stakeholder
CREDITS
Panagiotis Charalambous
Ismail Hadjri
The PULSE Research Group is a multidisciplinary team at the CYENS Centre of Excellence in Nicosia, Cyprus, dedicated to breathing life into virtual worlds. They specialise in creating believable digital environments through virtual human simulation, motion capture and immersive XR technologies.
PULSE integrates AI, computer graphics and multimodal content to push the boundaries of how people experience virtual spaces. Their advanced research and development fuel major applications across several industries and areas, such as performing arts, edutainment, history, cultural heritage and more.
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