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Sony EyePet – Augmented Reality for all

Nice nice nice =)

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The “Improve” Project : Architecture and Cars

Improve is a european project that intends to (surprisingly) improve the usability (hardware and software) of automotive and architectural applications, both VR and AR.   The goals are : To develop stereoscopic lightweight transparent eyeglasses with OLED-based micro…

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Try Softkinetic technology at Siggraph (and win a Wii)

Visit the 3DVIA Virtools booth #1217  ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO9jffcB1c8[/youtube]

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VR RC Car

Similar to the VR RC Airplane, here’s the same principle with a car : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ETLtKc0_5c[/youtube] Of course, I want one :p

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Tsukuba Walking System

Just when I said nothing interesting was happening it seems lots of things are spawning ! From NewLaunches : University of Tsukuba Japan has developed a dome shaped virtual reality walking system for patients patients suffering from a…

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DIY 3D Controller

Kyle McDonald shows at Instructables.com  how to make your own cheap 3d desktop tracker. Here’s a small video (non embeddable in my wordpress..) You need : One Arduino board (3) 270k resistors (3) 10k resistors Solder Wire Aluminum…

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Virtual Walk Game Controller

Hum look at that : [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jhr-fbMW4Sc[/youtube] It doesn’t really seem to qualify as “natural walking”. Ok neither does the Virtusphere, and I can’t comment on the ODT since I’ve never tried it but as they want to study…

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Laval Virtual 2008 – Videos

Back at Laval Virtual, David did a lot of videos for internal DS communication of applications made with Virtools VR Pack. They have now released the videos on Youtube here! Warning, it’s a bit corporate 😉 I’ve also…

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What is (not) VR ?

(03/07/10: I know have a proper definition for VR) (19/04/09: Hey people who come directly to this particular post, tell me where do you come from? =) Updates Sorry about the lack of updates, I have lots of…

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Consumer markerless tracking

Yesterday I attended the Dassault Systèmes Developer Conference (Devcon 2008), and had a good time playing with Softkinetic technology of markerless body tracking. They use a special camera that gives you a depth map and from that they…

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