Author: sebk
Try the Crescent HMD at Laval
The Crescent HEWDD-768 HMD was presented at Laval Virtual 2007. It is being improved and will be showcased on July 13th 2007 at Laval, in Nautilus buildings. Contact Gilles Brossard for more information about the HMD or the…
Read More »“Stringwalker enables realistic walking in Virtual worlds”
Copy paste from this VirtualWorldlets article : The StringWalker is the work of Hiroo Iwata from the University of Tsukuba and will be demonstrated for the first time outside Japan at SIGGRAPH. The walker works by means of…
Read More »Kheops For All !
As said by Olivier, you can now book a seat for the first public Kheops event at La Géode in Paris, on Thursday, 24 mai at 20h00. The theory of Jean-Pierre Houdin on the construction of the Kheops/Khufu…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2007
These three great days have been very intense; holding the booth, meeting people, attending conferences, trying hardware and applications, being a jury member for the student competition. First things first, here are some pictures I took there. I…
Read More »See you at Laval Virtual !
I’m leaving today for Laval Virtual, the biggest VR tradeshow in Europe. See you there 😉 I hope the Kobitos will be there too!
Read More »Debian has a new leader
The excellent Sam Hocevar is now the new Debian Project Leader. Congratulations! I hope you’ll still have time for some beers 😉
Read More »VR Medical training should be mandatory
Here’s an interesting article from Nature about the advantages on using VR for surgery training, but also for procedures standardisation : Virtual surgery could soon be a realityVirtual reality (VR) simulators should be used to teach doctors new…
Read More »The Pyramid and the biggest VR screen
On Friday March 30th 2007, the biggest VR screen was inaugurated with a great event; A big show at La Géode (IMAX theater in Paris) to unveil the theory of Jean-Pierre Houdin about his theory on the construction…
Read More »Light efficiency in stereoscopic projection
[Update : Barco has updated their page with a single PDF. This broke the images below] Â – Two LCD projectors – Barco has a really interesting page about how much luminosity you can get from your stereoscopic…
Read More »The come-back (again) of the third dimension in movies
After the early tests (1838),a golden era (1952-1955), a revival (1960-1979), and the beginnings of IMAX 3-D (1980-1984), it seems stereoscopic movies are in for a new-new-new revival! James Cameron is the leader of this movement that never…
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