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…

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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…

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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. Heavy Rain is the story of a father whose kid has been kidnapped and his endeavour to get him back….

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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…

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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 : Tt has gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometer for high rate updates and…

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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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