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!

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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…

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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…

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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 =)…

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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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