Author: sebk

AFRV – 2nd days

The french association for virtual reality (AFRV [fr], english page here) was holding its annual meeting in Marseille. Nearly all the major actors of VR in France were there. The complete photo gallery is here. – The 3x3x4m…

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Cheap “impact-generating” device

The 3rdSpace® Vest from TN Games allows you to feel impacts of bullets and punches inside the game. It works with air micro-compressors that generate impacts like “3 year old punching you” (words from a tester in the…

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Automatically adjust multiple projectors

Sorry for the lack of updates, I didn’t find time nor something enough interesting to say lately =) Here are two videos I found through this article about the Mersive technology, which “allows you to combine low cost…

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Markerless realtime 3D tracking & modeling

A french lab, who published a paper at Siggraph 2007, is working on a impressive markerless tracking/modeling system, the GrImage Platform: This architecture is designed for mixed reality applications requiring such dynamic models, tele-immersion for instance. (…) The…

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Interactive 360º Light Field Display

From a Siggraph 2007 paper, heres’ an interesting new display technology “for an autostereoscopic light field display able to present interactive 3D graphics to multiple simultaneous viewers 360 degrees around the display.”. This video (86.6MB, (Quicktime h264) )…

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Soon, the Wii will win

Aha, who would have bet on these figures 6 months ago ? From this Digg post : “With only 620,000 units seperating them and Wii selling around 200,000 units per week more than 360 worldwide we should see…

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Echochrome – 3D game with M.C. Escher perspective

by FUJIKI Ju for Sony, PS3 and PSP, 2008. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epz7rzRzIMA[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23a7ENF8qY[/youtube]

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IPT/EGVE 2007 – Hardware

I just returned from Weimar, Germany, attending the Immersive Projection Technologies/Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. This has been a really interesting event. I’ve met some very nice people and learned a lot of things! I’ll try to speak…

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Intersense IS-1200 VisTracker

Back at IPT/EGVE, Intersense was presenting its MictroTrax and new Wand. The head tracker is really small, and the wand is smaller. It can fit on cheap, lightweight passive stereo glasses without any problem. I did the setup…

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News on Brain Computer Interfaces

I’m just returning from IPT/EGVE 2007, more on that later. There have been several interesting talks about BCI (Brain Computer Interfaces). >> Wheelchair control from thought The first one was from Prof. Dr. Gert Pfurtscheller from the Laboratory…

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