Author: sebk

Laval Virtual 2009

The 11th edition of Laval Virtual has been held from the 22th to the 26th of April 2009, and to me it was one of the nicest edition ever! As the conference center was moved a bit further…

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Laval Virtual 2009 – Augmented Reality

There were four students games using AR technology : – Cubes sur Cubes, ATI / Paris 8 – – Qui Suis-Je? (ATI / Paris 8 ) – – The now famous LevelHead – – Scope, Ecole de Design…

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Virtual Showcase

A team of ESIEA students created this really nice system using a single wide-angle projector and NaturalPoint’s Optitrack cameras to track the viewpoint : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh84HnBDSnc[/youtube] It’s good to see that more and more people are working on nice…

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One step closer to home VR

Fresh from E3, and I’m sure you all have seen it, but still I have to print it here because I’m happy : we’re one big step closer to having VR at home 😉 The first controller, by…

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Killing zombies in AR

(The Laval Virtual wrap-up is still on its way, don’t worry 😉 Fellow reader David Cochard, with Kimberly Spreen, created a project at Georgia Tech and SCAD-Atlanta with advisors Blair MacIntyre and Tony Tseng, an AR zombie killing…

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Laval Virtual 2009 – Clarte’s R-Screen

I don’t have time right now to talk about everything that was at Laval Virtual 2009 because I’m leaving this afternoon to Jordan! So if there’s any VR Geek around there, let me know 😉 So I’ll just…

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Laval Virtual 2009 – Ergo Wide 3

Kate Bourdet, from the Dassault Systèmes Corporate Blog “3D Perspectives“, did a great article about Clarte’s Ergo Wide 3 that was demonstrated at Laval Virtual 2009. Basically it’s a tool to design ergonomically valid production line workstations, in…

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French VR association launches its blog !

The French association for VR, AR, MR and 3D Interactions, the AFRV, whose members are researchers, industrials, students, users, creators, has launched its own blog during Laval Virtual 2009. Posts will be in french or english, and any…

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AR Magic

Back from Laval Virtual, I’m of course preparing a post about the 11th edition! Thanks to Xavier for this great video, which is realtime AR !! As stated on the YouTube page : ALL THE GRAPHICS ON THIS…

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IEEE VR 2009

Then after two days of 3DUI, Searis, PIVE and workshops was the actual IEEE VR Conference. For four days the weather was rainy and cold, and finally on the last day the sun woke up and gave us…

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