The 2019 VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award

The 2019 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award goes to Anatole Lécuyer of Inria, Rennes, France, in recognition of his research on using Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCI) and pseudo-haptics in Virtual Reality (VR) systems. Dr. Lécuyer has been working in VR for over two decades. He coined the term "pseudo-haptics" in his dissertation research to describe how appropriate visual feedback could induce haptic sensations when using passive input devices. He later played a key role in introducing BCI to VR research and, over the past decade, has led the OpenViBE project, whose open-source software is used by many researchers worldwide to support real-time processing of brain signals. The IEEE VGTC is pleased to award Anatole Lécuyer the 2019 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award. Anatole Lécuyer is currently Senior Researcher at Inria, the French National Institute for Research.