IEEEVR 2025 XR Gallery Chair

From 2024 to 2025 at IEEEVR 2025, Saint-Malo, France Blog post

As part of the prestigious IEEEVR A* conference on XR research. I had the privilege to chair the first edition of the IEEEVR 2025 XR Gallery fostering bridges between digital artists and researchers questioning the fundamentals of the immersive spaces we’re interacting with daily. Despite their intellectual affinities, bringing these two worlds together required a great deal of compromise and adaptation.

We got positively surprised by the amount of great quality submissions we got for this new format (68 submission, 25 Shortlisted after a double-blind review process , 17 accepted). A bit more than 12000+ people attented the event between march 10-12 2025 in Saint Malo France. According to feedback from researchers and artists, the first edition of the IEEEVR25 XR gallery was a great success.

Immersive crowd research

From 2022 to 2025 in VirtUS Team at INRIA Rennes, Rennes, France Blog post

As an XR research engineer in the VirtUs research team, I was involved in the creation of immersive spaces (VR/XR) where real humans and virtual agents are coexisting with a sufficient level of realism so that the virtual experience and its results can be transposed into reality. In this role, I maintained the team's XR hardware and softwares ( CrowdMP and UMANS) while also providing supervision.

Caduta dall'Alto

From 2021 to 2023 in Vicarios Team at IIT Genoa, Italy Blog post

Caduta dall'Alto (Falling from Heights) is a project exploring a set of novel safety and mixed reality virtual training systems to improve workers safety when working at heights. The main challenges lie in the precise understanding of the mechanisms leading to the fall, in reliable bio-mechanical models, and in a realistic design for a mixed reality training environment. At the same time, ergonomics must be thoroughly investigated with field professionals to ensure their specific needs and peculiar concerns are fully met.
This project was held in collaboration with INAIL (Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work).

Robot Teleoperativo 2

From 2021 to 2023 in Vicarios Team at IIT Genoa, Italy Blog post

Robot Teleoperativo 2 is addressing immersive and collaborative teleoperation use-cases in challenging environments. Part of my work here is directed towards efficient integration of sensors data from the robotic platform as well as their meaningful representation inside a virtual environment for the pilot operator and his collaborators.
This project was held in collaboration with INAIL (Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work).

TENSIVE : Immersive teleoperation of telepresence robots for verbal interaction and social navigation

From 2016 to 2019 between GIPSA-lab, Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, INRIA Grenoble, Grenoble, France

The TENSIVE project focuses on designing and evaluating a new generation of immersive telepresence robot control systems, aimed at enhancing navigation and verbal interaction capabilities for humanoid robots. A key challenge of the project is to foster a sense of virtual "embodiment" within the robotic platform by providing a coherent visual representation of the remote environment—particularly through the robot's head and eye movements. The system also supports semi-automatic immersive navigation driven by the pilot’s body and gaze.

As part of my PhD work, I took part in the development of a new paradigm for immersive teleoperation called SGCS (Stereo Gaze Contingent Steering), which allows control of the iCub robot’s head and gaze using the pilot’s head orientation and eye vergence. The VR setup utilized Oculus DK2 and HTC Vive headsets, both equipped with SMI eye-tracking technology, and the robot was controlled through the YARP framework. In the later stages of the project, I used a Pepper robot to implement immersive teleoperated navigation using the ROS framework.

In this research internship, I characterized the rôle of vision in postural control. Based on the work done on the "Moving Box paradigm" (Lee1978), I was questionning how vision can influence balance and drive it. Our setup platform consisted of a VR head-mounted-display and a force platform (wii balance board).

As part of those two research internships, I have explored the use of haptic devices in immersive project reviews in order to offer news paradigms for an accurate modification CAD objects.