Month: August 2009

Making fun of AR

I just laughed so much when I saw this video.. It exactly summarizes the current state of AR for marketing: useless! Simply displaying an object is boring! Adding crappy animations is boring! Come on guys, be creative, add…

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On the way to flat displays for caves

The guys behind the StarCave have created a new VR display using flat HDTV. From this Physorg article : The technology, dubbed “NexCAVE,” was inspired by Calit2’s StarCAVE virtual reality environment and designed and developed by Calit2 Research…

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Ultrasonic haptics

The University of Tokyo has demonstrated at Siggraph an interesting haptics system where you can feel contact .. without any contact ! From the paper : “Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display [Iwamoto et al. 2008]” is a tactile display…

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VR-Gun

A plastic gun, a LCD, a Gyromouse, mix, shake, here’s the VR Gun : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ym0tZSWGMc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGSpAZtm38[/youtube] (I know, I’m two months late =) You will only get the rotations from the Gyromouse, so walking won’t help you. This…

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