Month: October 2008
Waterscreen for large displays
Woops, bad manipulation so this old post got lost.. Here is it again : Â From Clickz, just a nice example of using finely sprayed water as a screen, “part of a promotion for an upcoming movie release” :…
Read More »ACM VRST 2008
I’ll be at the VRST (VR Software & Technology) conference in Bordeaux, France, from Monday to Wednesday, so see you there! (But I won’t be at the AFRV days so don’t wait for me 😉
Read More »jDome – an interview of John Nilson
One day, John Nilson, a 38 years old swedish system engineer, decided he wanted to play in an immersive environment and that everybody should have the same chance. So he created the jDome: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-IvzpFE7nc[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtpxgZc73o[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0mDDnBoXo[/youtube] And so…
Read More »Augmented Reality on a mobile phone and interview of Int13
You may have seen the slow (but full-featured ARToolkit) AR on an iPhone, so here’s a fast version by French company Int13 on Windows Mobile, much more smooth! [In the meantime I heard that the iPhone doesn’t have…
Read More »StarCAVE, a new type of CAVE
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit²) has built a new type of CAVE, the third generation is a diamond shaped CAVE ! It was conceived by Tom DeFanti and Daniel J. Sandin (with others, see…
Read More »The story behind the Novint Falcon
The Financial Times has an interesting article about the creation and the innovative business model of the Falcon haptics device :  “They said: ‘How are you going to get game support when you don’t have an installed base…
Read More »Two VR companies going down
Trimersion, makers of cheap HMDs, seems to have gone out of business. Their website is down and people have been trying to contact them with no success. French company Nautilus, makers of VR applications and well know at…
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