Month: October 2006
The future of internet, the inter-virtual worlds
Here’s a really interesting article, found through vroot.org, about where the web and online virtual worlds are heading. Notably talking about the multiverse initiative and how it could federate all online VW into one big inter-vw, just as…
Read More »VR to learn a foreign language
Exills is a project by Xerox ( Xerox Research Centre Europe, XRCE ) to learn foreign language on the web through a virtual world (via the Blaxxun Vrml plugin). This article on Web3D-fr (in french) presents the project….
Read More »LiveMove : Motion recognizer
Here’s a video of AiLive LiveMove, that allows you to train your application to recognize the 3d motion (for the wiimote for example 😉 quickly and simply.
Read More »Wii-mote like for PC / PS3 / 360
This article from Gamasutra talks about a controller made by In2Games, makers of GameTrak : “Named Gametrak Fusion, it uses a patent-pending ultrasonic and RF system to track the motion of a Wii-Mote-style controller, using a small base…
Read More »My VR Setup
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I really like this input method and think it might be useful for symbolic input in VWs.
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The 3rd dimension could be used to switch the output characters (uppercase, numerical, punctuation etc).
Read on for more infos about QuickWrite.
Read More »Wiimote, a first test
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QuickWrite is an input method created by Ken Perlin so that \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”you shouldn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t ever need to pick up the pen (ie: no clicking, only gliding).\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”
I really like this input method and think it might be useful for symbolic input in VWs.
So today I played in Virtools with the idea of using Natural Point\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s TrackIR as an input device. Of course any 3DOF (it needs only 2DOF) tracker would fit (the Wii-mote for example).
Here\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s a video (slightly higher quality (6.4mb) ) of my experiment. I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’m quite a beginner at this input method but it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s really easy to learn and write fast.
The 3rd dimension could be used to switch the output characters (uppercase, numerical, punctuation etc).
Read on for more infos about QuickWrite.
Read More »Sensics piSight : first review
[Update: This was written 3 years ago, the product is now much better, lighter and easy to use!] I’ve had the chance to test the famous Sensics piSight yesterday. I could only test it for 5 mins, and…
Read More »Back from the skies
Back from Bouloc after a week of freefall. In spite of the bad weather we managed to do 17 jumps. I’m very happy with this week, learned a lot and had a lot of fun ! We also…
Read More »VR FPS : Atrium Experience
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pagVgeFaR5Q[/youtube] Here’s a great video from Atrium Exprience, “one of the first FPS games in a CAVE-like display (SASCube)!”. It was made by Alexandre Bouchet and Lionel Dominjon from Clarte, using Virtools and the VR Pack. I played…
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