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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »VR-Gun
A plastic gun, a LCD, a Gyromouse, mix, shake, here’s the VR Gun : (I know, I’m two months late =) You will only get the rotations from the Gyromouse, so walking won’t help you. This is as…
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