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Networked Virtual Theater

Virtual theater is an idea i’ve been wanting to investigate for a long time, and now the university of Buffalo has experienced with it. It is called Human Trials, and features an immersive environment for a “player”, but…

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VR Shoes

This article from Gizmag talks about VR Shoe that will be presented at Siggraph : “the Powered Shoes effectively cancel the horizontal displacement of the user as they are driven from electrical motors in a backpack worn by…

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BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype

Here’s a cool video of a 3d desktop that uses piles of document as the base of organisation. Looks intuitive, but I don’t like piles on my real desktop :p

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QTVR is not VR

Sorry for the lack of update, we’re working hard to get the VRPack 2.0 out 😉 More on that later. In the meantime I just want to express my anger at QuicktimeVR and everything related (hello VRMag, VRWay…

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Circular Floor Video

Here’s a pretty cool video of the CirculaFloor in action, developped at the VR Lab of the University of Tsukuba. “CirculaFloor is a locomotion interface using a group of movable tiles. (…) Circulation of the tiles enables the…

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The first cave gets an upgrade

From this article at AScribe : “More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University’s six-sided virtual reality room. (..) Iowa State’s C6 opened in June 2000 as the country’s first…

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Laval Virtual : a mini video

Here’s a mini video filmed by a student of the Ecole de Design de Nantes, featuring the Virtual Brownie, Touch Light, Invisible and some others. This blog (in french) also has some articles about installations presented at laval…

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Head-Mounted Projective Display

I was reading 3D User Interfaces and I stumbled across the definition of a HMPD. I didn’t know this kind of VR display, and it looks quite promising ! Here’s what I understand of it, based on those…

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Paper: Advances in X3D multi-user virtual environments

This paper presents the current state of the art in web3d multi-user technologies and more specifically networked virtual environment platforms that support the X3D standard.

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The Metaverse Roadmap

from Metaverse Roadmap : “What happens when video games meet Web 2.0? When virtual worlds meet geospatial maps of the planet? When simulations get real and life and business go virtual? When your avatar becomes your blog, your…

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