Background Encouraging healthy eating behavior and increasing physical activity can improve health, vitality, and quality of life. Individuals and health professionals have specific needs and wishes. Creative technology allows personalization of blended lifestyle programs that support behavior change …

In this thesis you can find an explaination on how Metahuman characters can be used as digital patients. These characters will have dynamic elements which will mimic medical situations. These patients will be used in a VR operating room simulation. This thesis also contains information about animating …

This demo is the first outcome of the research project VR for Diversity. The theoretical backgrounds for the project are shortly discussed and the concept for Amelia’s Dream is presented. Amelia’s Dream is a VR experience that is filmed using volumetric video capture technology, in which a young woman …

This thesis covers the development process of a realistic representation of a news item in VR. Additionally, the thesis aims to test whether this technology can generate empathic feedback in young adults from 20 to 30 years old. Another purpose is to make recommendations for future developers who are …

During the graduation period, I have worked with Leiden University Medical Center on bringing to reality the first steps to creating a complementary training tool for their residents. As a result, together with an IMT&S team, we designed and created a demo application which simulates a kidney transplant …

The Saxion XR Lab offered the assignment to recreate a news item in virtual reality. This report covers the research regarding the news items‘ impact compared to a traditional representation, such as an article. To invent a solution that appeals to young adults and fills a market gap, a demo VR experience …

This research focuses on some globalillumination techniques from the past several years that are reimplemented for relevant (to the time ofthe research) software - a low-level graphics API, such as DirectX 12, and hardware - a modern GPUwith hardware-accelerated raytracing, such as NVIDIA RTX2060. The …

Kruidenrijk grasland staat volop in de belangstelling. Melkveehouders ontdekken steeds meer de positieve kanten van grasland met een grotere diversiteit aan kruiden, vlinder­bloemigen en grassen. Dit is in de afgelopen jaren versterkt doordat de zuivelketen in samenwerking met de supermarktketens en …

De vraag vanuit Deltaplan Agrarisch Waterbeheer (DAW) was om voor agrarische ondernemers in Gelderland een eenvoudiger overzicht met watermaatregelen te vormen die voor elke agrarische ondernemer op een geschikte en passende wijze in de onderneming ingepast kan worden én daarbij voldoet aan de eisen …

Voor stemloze patiënten die beperkt zijn in hun communicatie door verwijderde stembanden (larynchectomie), zijn er stemprothesen. Een stemprothese is een chirurgisch ingebracht ventieltje of niet-invasief een electrolarynx. In de VS is ook een kunstgebit met ingebouwde elektronische stemprothese en afstandsbediening …