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Going to Laval Virtual 2008
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Read More »IEEE VR 2008, AR/MR
From Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th March 2008 was the actual IEEE VR conference. See the complete program. It was harder to take notes because there was no power plug in this room, and Wi-fi was having a…
Read More »IEEE VR 2008, Training and Virtual Humans Session
From Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th March 2008 was the actual IEEE VR conference. See the complete program. Bigger Size Gallery. svgallery=ieee_vr_2008 Training Again, for me one of the most interesting applications of AR/VR is training. See also…
Read More »Intuition – VR State of the Art
Intuition, the European VR Network of Excellence and soon to be European VR Association, has produced a nice VR State of the art back in 2004. It’s pretty complete with over 100 pages! Happy reading!
Read More »Searis 2008
On March 9th I attended the Searis 2008 Workshop: Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems, which was the perfect workshop for me 😉 svgallery=searis2008 The workshop was about presenting existing architectures and regroup people working on…
Read More »3DUI 2008
On saturday March 8th I attended the 3DUI Conference which was really interesting. svgallery=3dui2008 It seems the trend is to simplify 3D interactions by adding some real life constraints. A lot of talk was about using 2D or…
Read More »IEEE VR 2008
I’m leaving tomorrow to attend IEEE VR 2008 and 3DUI 2008. If you’re there too, let me know so that we can meet there! Virtools will have a booth, or I’ll be asking questions at the conferences =)…
Read More »Maglev Haptics
This article at NewsScientists talks about a new haptics device “levitated by magnets”. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isu7r3Ywqp0&eurl=http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13410-maglev-joystick-gives-better-feedback.html[/youtube] Ralph Hollis and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US, developed a haptic device with just one moving part. (…) A bowl with electromagnets…
Read More »VRPack 2.5 is out, MP Website is up
We’ve been working quite hard to give you a nice VRPack 2.5 on the Virtools 4.1 Platform. See the “What’s new” for more info. The website for a brand new product, 3DVIA MP, is online starting today, with…
Read More »Khufu/Kheops is back for good !
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ba6Dch__c[/youtube] The great Khufu show is coming back and it’s here to stay! Friday 22 Feb. at La Géode, Jean-Pierre Houdin will be presenting his theory about the construction of the great Khufu (Kheops in french) pyramid. Then…
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