3DUI 2011 is now over and the 3DUI Contest winners of 2011 have been announced !

1st prize : Virginia Tech (again!)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aRJJfR01tM[/youtube]

Great idea of “building” the pieces instead of choosing them among all the pieces !

2nd prize : Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZ6FzkibpQ[/youtube]

They used their great pCubee display !

3rd prize : Hasselt University

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SId-wFTBQbs[/youtube]

I love their VR system : optical tracking of AR patterns, semi-transparent mirror enabling colocated interaction (à-la Personal Space Station), and no buttons for interaction !

It’s also probably quite cheap to build !

Other entries

All the video entries can be found on the contest webpage.

(Be sure to check the CubTile by Immersion 😉

You can see last year’s winners here.

Congratulations to all the entries

What I particularly like about this contest is that it quickly gives you a lot of good ideas about both interactions and systems, and to realize that more and more people are building their own VR systems 🙂