Month: April 2009

Laval Virtual 2009 – Ergo Wide 3

Kate Bourdet, from the Dassault Systèmes Corporate Blog “3D Perspectives“, did a great article about Clarte’s Ergo Wide 3 that was demonstrated at Laval Virtual 2009. Basically it’s a tool to design ergonomically valid production line workstations, in…

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French VR association launches its blog !

The French association for VR, AR, MR and 3D Interactions, the AFRV, whose members are researchers, industrials, students, users, creators, has launched its own blog during Laval Virtual 2009. Posts will be in french or english, and any…

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AR Magic

Back from Laval Virtual, I’m of course preparing a post about the 11th edition! Thanks to Xavier for this great video, which is realtime AR !! As stated on the YouTube page : ALL THE GRAPHICS ON THIS…

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IEEE VR 2009

Then after two days of 3DUI, Searis, PIVE and workshops was the actual IEEE VR Conference. For four days the weather was rainy and cold, and finally on the last day the sun woke up and gave us…

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IEEE VR 2009 – Awards

Two famous people, one paper and two sketches were given an award: The IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Career Award 2009 went to Jaron Lanier (which explains his presence at the conference). Here’s an excerpt from the award page…

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3DUI, Searis, PIVE 2009

Two days before the real IEEE VR conference are other international events, mostly running in parallel. So choosing between one or another is really heartbreaking. The organizers managed to have only a single track for the VR conference…

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IEEE VR 2009 – Keynote Speech – VR at Ford

I’m still processing my notes to make a summary of the conference, so in the meantime, here’s a nice video. The keynote was given by Elizabeth Baron, from Ford Motor Company. It is a very interesting and thourough…

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