Month: December 2007
The Wii is hacked
Until now nobody could run an application on the Wii without it being approved by Nintendo. This means that the application had to be signed with Nintendo’s encryption key. At the Chaos Computer Club Congress, some hackers explain…
Read More »iVibe Tactile Feedback System
iVibe.com is selling tactile feedback sits for $239.95 : The TFSU itself is a thick and durable seat cushion made of the highest quality fabric laminated polyurethane foam. It will fit in the chair you already use right…
Read More »Wiirtual Reality
Johnny Lee is definitely a genius.. After the Finger Tracking and the Wiimote whiteboard, here’s how with two Wiimotes he’s creating VR games at home !! (not that we didn’t think about it, but hey.. he actually *did*…
Read More »Future Crew – Second Reality
Just a small post to show you a video of one of the most famous, old-school demos : Second Reality, by Future Crew (1993). Back then you had to tweak your autoexec.bat and config.sys to get enough memory…
Read More »Cyberwalk project
The Max Planck Institute, along with other german and italian institutions, is running a program called Cyberwalk which was first demonstrated in April 2007. Their flyer explains it all : The Goal Un-constrained, quasi-natural omni-directional walking in virtual…
Read More »PSA Peugeot Citroen VR Center – New Video
PSA/Peugeot Citroen released a new video of their VR Center. They have a CAVE, a Holobench, and an Holostage ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBuNHqJrHHk[/youtube]
Read More »China’s copy of the Wii : the Vii
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wed_bW8iiEw[/youtube] No 3D, no CD-Rom, that’s the Vii. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHodHY3KqiY[/youtube] And there hardware is .. well, there’s nearly nothing into it !! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncRWCVdFFM8[/youtube]
Read More »Old school VR by Sega and Nintendo
Did you know that in 1995 Nintendo released a portable VR console, called the Virtual Boy ? With a monochrome stereoscopic HMD with a 384×224 resolution, it was priced at 180$ and reportedly Nintendo sold 700’000 units. The…
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