Author: sebk
PSA Peugeot Citroen VR Center – New Video
PSA/Peugeot Citroen released a new video of their VR Center. They have a CAVE, a Holobench, and an Holostage ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBuNHqJrHHk[/youtube]
Read More »China’s copy of the Wii : the Vii
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wed_bW8iiEw[/youtube] No 3D, no CD-Rom, that’s the Vii. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHodHY3KqiY[/youtube] And there hardware is .. well, there’s nearly nothing into it !! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncRWCVdFFM8[/youtube]
Read More »Old school VR by Sega and Nintendo
Did you know that in 1995 Nintendo released a portable VR console, called the Virtual Boy ? With a monochrome stereoscopic HMD with a 384×224 resolution, it was priced at 180$ and reportedly Nintendo sold 700’000 units. The…
Read More »1977 StarWars’ 3D
Back in 1977 there were no Maya, no shaders, no spacemouse… Here’s another video from the EVL, the lab that created the Cave : (1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry…
Read More »The pocket cathedral – birth of the CAVE
Alex Bouchet showed me those two vintage videos of the early days of the CAVE : “(1991) before the CAVE was called “The CAVE” it was internally named the Pocket Cathedral (actually it was called the Closet Cathedral…
Read More »Multitouch with the Wiimote
A really clever use of the Wiimote, by Johnny Lee, from Carnegie Mellon University. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU[/youtube] You might need WiiYourself! to read the position of 4 different dots. It’s the best Wiimote interface I found so far.
Read More »Cave Unreal Tournament Video
Alex Bouchet sent me this video of him playing Jeffrey Jacobson’s Cave Unreal Tournament : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yan8R4aZfhg[/youtube] Alex says it’s a bit buggy (synchronisation problems), and the navigation is not very natural yet, but the immersion awesome. Can I…
Read More »Levelhead – Augmented Reality Game
Here’s a really nice use of AR, by Julian Oliver (you should look at the higher res video on the site). (from O-Town) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ks1u0A8xdU[/youtube]
Read More »DLP 3D – Stereoscopic HDTV & HD-Projectors
The DLP 3D technology is reaching mass market! This ZDNet article says that those TVs “which uses DLP-based rear projection and ranging in price from $1499 to $4500”. Moreover, Mitsubishi is planning 3D Blu-Ray player for early 2008….
Read More »VR in USB norm
Did you know that VR devices are represented in the USB HID norm ? More precisely in the Usage tables, page 43. This document describes all the usages that a USB device can represent, a sort of abstract…
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