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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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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) )…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »Wii Fit
A new cool device for the Wii : [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5oNVIcMnZh4[/youtube]
Read More »Some haptics fun
Lionel Dominjon is a haptics master; he can make a PHANToM dance ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnRhska8f34[/youtube]
Read More »Comparing HMDs
Marc Bernatchez, from VResources, has an interesting article about comparing HMDs. He compares angular resolution, field of view, stereo overlapping, and the relevance of all these factors when compared to human visual abilities. For example, here’s the summary…
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