Current Virtual Reality (VR) systems are bereft of stylization and embellishment of the user\u2019s motion – concepts that have been well explored in animations for games and movies. We present CoolMoves, a system for expressive and accentuated full-body
\nmotion synthesis of a user\u2019s virtual avatar in real-time, from the limited input cues afforded by current consumer-grade VR systems, specifically headset and hand positions. We make use of existing motion capture databases as a template motion
\nrepository to draw from. We match similar spatio-temporal motions present in the database and then interpolate between them using a weighted distance metric. Joint prediction probability is then used to temporally smooth the synthesized motion,
\nusing human motion dynamics as a prior. This allows our system to work well even with very sparse motion databases (e.g., with only 3-5 motions per action). We validate our system with four experiments: a technical evaluation of our quantitative
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