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Heavy Rain and Plausibility Illusion
Heavy Rain is not your usual game. It’s dark, it’s emotionnal and to me it feels very real. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7vEZTkfoZU[/youtube] Heavy Rain is the story of a father whose kid has been kidnapped and his endeavour to get him…
Read More »Cave for sale
It seems that because of the crisis, some vr geeks need money. Thus they’re selling their Cave !!! I didn’t imagine this was possible but hey why not. I have some space in my appartment, maybe if we…
Read More »Playstation Move – 3D Tracker
In the end of 2006, Sony was already talking about it. Now they’ve finally made a demonstration at GDC of their upcoming 3D tracker, named Playstation Move : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKpgSpq-8o[/youtube] Tt has gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometer for high rate updates…
Read More »Augmented Reality pool game
In his blog Xavier Gouchet talks about a really nice application example that will be shown at Laval Virtual in april : an AR pool game ! Queen’s University Authors: Samuel Jordan, Michael Greenspan Abstract: ARPool is an…
Read More »Immersive Rail Shooter
The design school from Nantes, France, keeps impressing me with the genius of their students. They have good ideas and make them real. Making them real is what impresses me more.. Here’s a game concept by David Arenou,…
Read More »VR History – The birth of the Crystaleyes shutterglasses
Lenny Lipton, founder of Stereographics and former CTO of RealD, talks in his blog in a not so humble series of articles [Part 1, Part 2] about the invention of the Crystaleyes shutterglasses : The basic concept of…
Read More »ESIEA – Virtual Showcase : New videos
I’ve already talked about the Virtual Showcase, created by a team of teachers and students of the ESIEA french engineering school, and I’ve also had the chance to test it : it rocks ! It’s elegant, it’s lowcost and…
Read More »Quick Links #1
I’ve started using Twitter to post interesting VR links when I don’t have time to make a full post about them. Here’s a summary of these links : – Barco about the light efficiency of their stereo systems…
Read More »Stereoscopy for two users
How would you allow two users in front of a projection screen to each have their own stereo ? I’ve seen such a system in Weimar at IPT/EGVE 2007 and I hear several systems are starting to use…
Read More »3DUI Grand Prize registrations are closed
Just a small word to say that 21 teams have registered to the 3DUI Grand Prize ! We’re very happy about that, we didn’t expect that much participation =) All the big 3D user interfaces labs are participating…
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