Month: March 2008
Intuition – VR State of the Art
Intuition, the European VR Network of Excellence and soon to be European VR Association, has produced a nice VR State of the art back in 2004. It’s pretty complete with over 100 pages! Happy reading!
Read More »Searis 2008
On March 9th I attended the Searis 2008 Workshop: Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems, which was the perfect workshop for me 😉 svgallery=searis2008 The workshop was about presenting existing architectures and regroup people working on…
Read More »3DUI 2008
On saturday March 8th I attended the 3DUI Conference which was really interesting. svgallery=3dui2008 It seems the trend is to simplify 3D interactions by adding some real life constraints. A lot of talk was about using 2D or…
Read More »IEEE VR 2008
I’m leaving tomorrow to attend IEEE VR 2008 and 3DUI 2008. If you’re there too, let me know so that we can meet there! Virtools will have a booth, or I’ll be asking questions at the conferences =)…
Read More »Maglev Haptics
This article at NewsScientists talks about a new haptics device “levitated by magnets”. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isu7r3Ywqp0&eurl=http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13410-maglev-joystick-gives-better-feedback.html[/youtube] Ralph Hollis and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US, developed a haptic device with just one moving part. (…) A bowl with electromagnets…
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