Author: sebk

Some AR fun

Some people at Total Immersion have made a fun application that could change the way we do magic tricks, inspired by Portal : [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=kd0rCu3teb8[/youtube]

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Nintendo Virtual Boy video

Here’s the original TV ad for the Nintendo’s Virtual Boy. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKK6FH1vGw[/youtube]

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How to make your own multitouch surface

.. with a sheet of paper, some glass and a webcam! The NuiGroup shares this great video : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQpr3W-YmcQ[/youtube] I’ll have to take a look at this Touchlib, based on OpenCV which already has lots of multitouch functions.

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Sivic – VR Crime scene investigation

Here’s a video of the Sivic application made by ESCIN students and presented at Laval Virtual 2008. It was created in collaboration with french police to train officers at crime scene investigation. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC0gHv-Snmw[/youtube]

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Laval Virtual 2008 – How Virtual is VR to your brain ?

Lutz Jancke, from the Neuropsychology lab of Univeristy of Zurich, made an amazing presentation about the reality of VR to our brain. The short answer is for the brain, VR is just another reality; the brain only interprets…

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Laval Virtual 2008 – Tradeshow

This year Laval Virtual was celebrating its 10th anniversary. The tradeshow is getting bigger and there was not enough room for all the exhibitors that wanted a booth! There was not many technical innovations, rather evolutions of existing…

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Virtual Reality for condom use study

Back from Laval! Lots of things to tell and show you, but that will require some time. In the meantime, this article talks about a study which “goal is to see if risky sexual decisions are based on…

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Going to Laval Virtual 2008

 See you there 😉

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IEEE VR 2008, AR/MR

From Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th March 2008 was the actual IEEE VR conference. See the complete program. It was harder to take notes because there was no power plug in this room, and Wi-fi was having a…

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IEEE VR 2008, Training and Virtual Humans Session

From Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th March 2008 was the actual IEEE VR conference. See the complete program. Bigger Size Gallery. svgallery=ieee_vr_2008 Training Again, for me one of the most interesting applications of AR/VR is training. See also…

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