Month: November 2007
1977 StarWars’ 3D
Back in 1977 there were no Maya, no shaders, no spacemouse… Here’s another video from the EVL, the lab that created the Cave : (1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry…
Read More »The pocket cathedral – birth of the CAVE
Alex Bouchet showed me those two vintage videos of the early days of the CAVE : “(1991) before the CAVE was called “The CAVE” it was internally named the Pocket Cathedral (actually it was called the Closet Cathedral…
Read More »Multitouch with the Wiimote
A really clever use of the Wiimote, by Johnny Lee, from Carnegie Mellon University. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU[/youtube] You might need WiiYourself! to read the position of 4 different dots. It’s the best Wiimote interface I found so far.
Read More »Cave Unreal Tournament Video
Alex Bouchet sent me this video of him playing Jeffrey Jacobson’s Cave Unreal Tournament : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yan8R4aZfhg[/youtube] Alex says it’s a bit buggy (synchronisation problems), and the navigation is not very natural yet, but the immersion awesome. Can I…
Read More »Levelhead – Augmented Reality Game
Here’s a really nice use of AR, by Julian Oliver (you should look at the higher res video on the site). (from O-Town) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ks1u0A8xdU[/youtube]
Read More »DLP 3D – Stereoscopic HDTV & HD-Projectors
The DLP 3D technology is reaching mass market! This ZDNet article says that those TVs “which uses DLP-based rear projection and ranging in price from $1499 to $4500”. Moreover, Mitsubishi is planning 3D Blu-Ray player for early 2008….
Read More »VR in USB norm
Did you know that VR devices are represented in the USB HID norm ? More precisely in the Usage tables, page 43. This document describes all the usages that a USB device can represent, a sort of abstract…
Read More »AFRV – 2nd days
The french association for virtual reality (AFRV [fr], english page here) was holding its annual meeting in Marseille. Nearly all the major actors of VR in France were there. The complete photo gallery is here. – The 3x3x4m…
Read More »Cheap “impact-generating” device
The 3rdSpace® Vest from TN Games allows you to feel impacts of bullets and punches inside the game. It works with air micro-compressors that generate impacts like “3 year old punching you” (words from a tester in the…
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