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Online VR Introduction
I’ve recently given an introductory VR course at my former engineering school and I’ve decided to put my presentation online under a Creative Commons license, hoping that this can help someone to learn or teach VR (not that…
Read More »How moving while playing hacks into your emotions
There’s a nice article at Wired explaining why playing with the Wii, Kinect or the PS Move (outrageously absent from the article!) triggers emotions impossible to have with a simple gamepad : Numerous studies have shown that movements…
Read More »Quick links #5
It seems I’m using Twitter more and more. I didn’t realize I had twitted so much, I’ll try to summarize more often. – A new 3D mouse –http://t.co/nZQMKMg – Seems to work a lot like the GlobeFish doesn’t…
Read More »Immersion Lounge > Test Sensics HMD
If you’re in Paris on the November 4th, you may consider going to the first Immersion Lounge where you will be able to test Sensics HMD. The french company Immersion will showcase the xSight (wide FOV and Full HD)…
Read More »AR to interact with your everyday world
Fellow reader Brett Jones sent me a video of his (and his team) work that they’re currently presenting at ISMAR, the AR conference : Build Your World and Play In It: Interacting with Surface Particles on Complex Objects…
Read More »More about Ford’s VR facilities
DigitalTrends has made a nice visit to Ford’s VR facilities (which I already talked about here), notably the Programmable Vehicle Model (PVM) and the Digital Preassembly Lab, but also the VIRTTEX driving simulator : There are two things…
Read More »Interviewing Jeffrey Jacobson, creator of Cave Unreal Tournament
If you’re a VR Geek, you’ve probably already bumped into Cave Unreal Tournament (CaveUT), an adaptation of the Unreal engine to run in CAVEs and create VR applications. I’ve had the chance to meet its creator Jeffrey Jacobson…
Read More »3DUI Contest 2011
The next 3dui contest rules are now available : Build an application that allows users to solve simple 3D puzzles such as that shown in Figure 1. The system should measure time of completion, and it should provide…
Read More »Quick links #4
Tada, a couple of months worth of twitting : – Haptic Virtual Copy of Real Objects - http://vroot.org/node/5610 – Human Unconscious Is Transferred to Virtual Characters - http://vroot.org/node/5625 – New Interface Technology Realizes ‘Touchable’ 3D Images http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20100826/185229/ – Nintendo’s Virtual Boy…
Read More »Sony PSMove – First impressions
I’ve been interviewed by the french tech magazine Amusement (October edition) about the new 3D controller by Sony, the PSMove. Sony liked the interview and decided to put it in the (french) press kit: The interview was done…
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