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Jaron Lanier’s message to VR Geeks
I’m still in Lafayette, Louisiana, attending the IEEE VR 2009 conference. We’re eating lots of hamburgers but the conference is just fabulous, I’ll try to talk to you about that soon. In the meantime, I’ve had the chance…
Read More »See you at IEEE VR!
I’m leaving for IEEE VR in Lafayette, Louisiana, see you there 😉
Read More »Video – World Builder
Here’s a nice video (by Bruce Branit) of what creating worlds in VR could look like : World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
Read More »Visiting the Max Planck Institute
I’ve had the great honnor to be invited by Betty Mohler, who is currently working at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, to come and visit their research projects that use VR. Part of what they do…
Read More »Improved Circulafloor
The CirculaFloor is back ! From this article at BotJunkie : A 5 meter square of area is sufficient for continuous movement in any direction. The tiles also incorporate lifts sufficient to replicate the feeling of climbing stairs……
Read More »One LED 3D tracking with two wiimotes
Using two wiimotes and a simple calibration step, Simon Hay and his team of the Cambridge University are able to track a single LED using stereovision algorithms : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT6aQN-lwmo[/youtube] Ok now please somebody write an opensource software to…
Read More »Kweekies – Mobile augmented reality game by Int13
Yay! The girls and boys from Int 13 (who were already interviewed on this very blog) have just released videos of their upcoming AR game. The game should be available this summer for iPhone, Windows Mobile and Smartphones…
Read More »VR in Marseille
The CRVM , VR research center in sunny Marseille, south of France, had the greatest idea of publishing lots of the videos of their work (in french). (I’m sure you can guess what software they’re using..) Here are…
Read More »Navidget
Navidget is a really nice navigation technique developped by Martin Hachet and his team (they also organized the VRST 2008 conference and created the CAT 6DOF input device). Navidget is a new interaction technique for camera positioning in…
Read More »Homebrew VR installation
Here’s a really nice VR setup by Timo Fleisch using two Wiimotes; one for hand tracking, one for head tracking. Simple, clever and efficient ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLy9AWi67XU[/youtube] And yes you do look ridiculous, so this is real VR 😉…
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