Author: sebk

Some news

Hey ! How are you doing ? Long time no see ! (unless you’re following me on Twitter!) Sorry for the lack of updates, 110% of my energy is going to my company ” i’m in VR ”…

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New immersive cubes

During my “european tour” to beta test MiddleVR I’ve been able to experience a few new VR systems that have been recently built or upgraded: London – a 4 sided immersive cube in London, at the University College…

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Quick links #10

Twitting requires definitely less time than blogging 🙂 – B-Reel Eels: Mobile Projection Mapping Game – http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/b-reel-multiplayer-mobile-projection-mapping-game/ – Just tested the new Sony #HMD : quite impressed! Good fov, good picture, nice sound, a bit heavy on nose,…

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Body representation in VR

This is a summary of Mel Slater‘s keynote at JVRC 2011, entitled “Body representation in Immersive Virtual Reality”. M. Slater started his talk by stating that the goal of VR is that people act as if what they’re…

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Razer Hydra – Cheap magnetic tracking

I just got my Razer Hydra, the new cheap (140$/€) magnetic trackers distributed by Razer, and created by Sixense. Magnetic tracking was the king of tracking several years ago, with Ascension and Polhemus leading the way. Magnetic tracking…

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MiddleVR – Teaser 2

[Update: MiddleVR for Unity is now released !! http://www.imin-vr.com] Some of you already know it, but I’ve been working on a new product called MiddleVR, a middleware for VR (pun intended). It’s a VR plugin which goal is…

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VR Geeks @ Laval Virtual 2011

The VR Geeks (non-for-profit association) were invited to the Laval Virtual tradeshow, the largest VR tradeshow in Europe ! (See my review here) (Update: by the way, we now have a Facebook page. We’re trendy. ) Setup Our…

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Quick Links #9

Twitting, coding, twitting, coding … – Ouverture des inscriptions au master VR de Laval : http://graduateschool.paristech.fr/programme.php?id=947 – FRAVE: Flexible Virtual Reality System – 10 3D full HD (1920×1080) plasma screens. Any video ? http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/2056946/frave_flexible_virtual_reality_system/ – Realtime facial animation…

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Laval Virtual 2011

At last, a small review of Laval Virtual 2011 ! The tradeshow was renamed as “Virtual Reality and Converging Technologies”. Indeed, there is more and more  “converging technologies”, even though all the major actors of VR were here…

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VR Minecraft

I wanted to see if I could adapt Minecraft to VR : It’s not perfect yet but it’s fun to be immersed in cubes 🙂

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