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ART FingerTracking
A neat new optically tracked device by ART, the FingerTracking : The Fingertracking device is now fully integrated in the DTrack system, wireless and able to track two hands with three fingers each. The Fingertracking device is an…
Read More »Le FN in Second Life
This article [Fr] states that the extremist right wing french party Le Front National (FN), is the first european party to have a permanent presence, and the first and only official french organisation in Second Life. I find…
Read More »IBM and the Metaverse
For those of you who don’t know what the Metaverse is, I’ll post an article about that later. Briefly, SecondLife is one Metaverse, a “virtual reality-based Internet“. As you may know, more and more big companies start to…
Read More »Sony to copy Wiimote ?
Sony is thinking about a “motion-sensitive controller”that would work like TrackIR and ART, that is with markers on the device and a camera to analyse their position. The Wii-mote has the camera inside the device and the markers…
Read More »Why gesture gives you more immersion ?
Here’s an interesting theory, explained for the Wii : “How the Nintendo Wii will get you emotionally invested in video games.” “we have to revisit an old theory of emotion, first proposed by the great American psychologist and…
Read More »Using the Wii accelerometers on the PC
Seems some people have connected the bluetooth Wiimote to a PC and started getting infos about the accelerometers. Here’s a page about the Wiimote protocol. This video (from marcan42 on youtube) is very shaky, so prepare for some…
Read More »Laws in Second Life ?
Here’s an article talking about the necessity of laws in SL, which also poses good questions : “Yet the notion of grassroots justice in a virtual world raises a host of serious questions: On what authority would they…
Read More »Second Life facts
From this article where a journalist of The Observer immerges for one week in Second Life : Anshe Chung, Second Life’s richest avatar, owns a property empire on the site worth $250,000 (£137,000) and employs 17 real-life people….
Read More »Multiverse Open Beta
“Multiverse is the only company focused on delivering a complete, end-to-end solution for MMOG and virtual world development. (…) Download the SDK (software development kit) with the full platform, the sample game, the complete documentation, and the starter…
Read More »NVidia 3D Stereo drivers
The NVidia 3D Stereo drivers allow users of any NVidia GPU to have their OpenGL and DirectX games in “real” stereoscopic 3D on their screen. You can have active, passive, anaglyph stereo, as well as horizontal/vertical interleaved, white/blue…
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