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Virtual World Has Billions of Residents
Through Terra Nova, a funny article at GameSpot about a new MMO : Real Life. Real life isn’t above reproach. In one of the stranger design decisions in the game, for some reason you have no choice in…
Read More »VR to create a new communication form
There’s an interesting set of articles at Edge, about why some of the greatest minds of this planet are optimistic. Jaron Lanier thinks that “Interpersonal Communication Will Become More Profound” thanks to VR : I’ve been fascinated by…
Read More »Lenticulations
Interesting technique to see depth in images, the lenticulation. It seems all you have to do is take 3 offseted pictures. Amazing =) Does anybody know how to build/buy one of those camera?
Read More »Virtools VR Library 2.0.5
An update of the VR Library (formerly known as the VRPack) is now downloadable.
Read More »Atrium Experience in a HMD
The guys that made Atrium, Alex Bouchet and Lionel Dominjon, are very cool guys, they gave us the sources of the first VR only FPS! Geoffrey modified it to use the VRNR, Virtools VR abstraction, so that the…
Read More »New multi-touch screen demo
Just in case you haven’t already seen it this week. Jeff Han and Phil Davidson are back to demonstrate their multi-touch interface. embedPlayer(271543545)
Read More »WiiRobot and a sword
That’s pretty cool! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEotHQgUsg&eurl=[/youtube] More infos at TechEBlog
Read More »eMagin z800 price increased by 2.5, and some words about other HMDs
The eMagin Z800 was the closest thing to a good consumer HMD, at a somewhat affordable $599. The only reason why I didn’t buy it yet is that I haven’t been able to test it yet. But last…
Read More »Mercedes and VR
Here are some articles about the use of VR at Mercedes / Daimler-Chrysler. The first at CarAndDriver.com : Ride/handling simulators and virtual reality coves also advanced the design [of the 2008 Mercedes Class-C] to a very mature level…
Read More »Fighting the Front
Here are some pictures of the fight in Second Life to get the french extremist party Le FN out. Here’s a story where the pictures come from.
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