Month: March 2010
IEEE VR 2010 – Perceptive illusions
This year the major conference of our field has been held in Waltham, USA, in the Boston area. I could only be there for three days, 2 days of 3DUI and 1 day of IEEE VR, and as…
Read More »3DUI Grand Prize 2010 – The winners !
The first 3DUI Grand Prize is finally over ! After a whole year of preparation, 23 teams from all over the world joined the contest. Only 12 of them sent us a video of their solution to participate…
Read More »Heavy Rain and Plausibility Illusion
Heavy Rain is not your usual game. It’s dark, it’s emotionnal and to me it feels very real. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7vEZTkfoZU[/youtube] Heavy Rain is the story of a father whose kid has been kidnapped and his endeavour to get him…
Read More »Cave for sale
It seems that because of the crisis, some vr geeks need money. Thus they’re selling their Cave !!! I didn’t imagine this was possible but hey why not. I have some space in my appartment, maybe if we…
Read More »Playstation Move – 3D Tracker
In the end of 2006, Sony was already talking about it. Now they’ve finally made a demonstration at GDC of their upcoming 3D tracker, named Playstation Move : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKpgSpq-8o[/youtube] Tt has gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometer for high rate updates…
Read More »Augmented Reality pool game
In his blog Xavier Gouchet talks about a really nice application example that will be shown at Laval Virtual in april : an AR pool game ! Queen’s University Authors: Samuel Jordan, Michael Greenspan Abstract: ARPool is an…
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