Month: March 2007
The Pyramid and the biggest VR screen
On Friday March 30th 2007, the biggest VR screen was inaugurated with a great event; A big show at La Géode (IMAX theater in Paris) to unveil the theory of Jean-Pierre Houdin about his theory on the construction…
Read More »Light efficiency in stereoscopic projection
[Update : Barco has updated their page with a single PDF. This broke the images below] Â – Two LCD projectors – Barco has a really interesting page about how much luminosity you can get from your stereoscopic…
Read More »The come-back (again) of the third dimension in movies
After the early tests (1838),a golden era (1952-1955), a revival (1960-1979), and the beginnings of IMAX 3-D (1980-1984), it seems stereoscopic movies are in for a new-new-new revival! James Cameron is the leader of this movement that never…
Read More »Virtual Reality for Virtual Eternity
A grant has been attributed to the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Central Florida in Orlando to create realistic avatars of historical figures that could hold a conversation. From Newswise : (…) UIC will…
Read More »VR Nostalgia, look at the future!
Back in the 90s there was a lot of hype about Virtual Reality, but the technology didn’t live up to the expectations. I found this video of one of the most famous movie about VR, Johnny Mnemonic (1995)…
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