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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 »Old-school VR Games
This is the kind of games that got me started into this field .. Can you believe it ?? From VR-Tifacts, where you can find a lot more videos : From 1991 to 1996 W Industries Virtuality systems…
Read More »Ford’s VR design tools
I had the chance to meet Elizabeth Baron, last year’s IEEE VR Keynote speaker, and manager of the VR Center in Product Development at Ford. But I’ve never visited all their VR equipment ! CrunchGear was more lucky…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2010 Videos
DS has just released all the videos they shot during Laval Virtual so thanks to them. Of course it’s only about applications using Virtools but it’s still interesting. Featuring David “iVEvangelist” Nahon! Randy Pausch once said about VR…
Read More »An introduction to 3D user interfaces
Dr Joe LaViola, one of the authors of the 3D UI bible “3D User Interfaces, Theory and Practice” has just released an article in Gamasutra to teach the basics of 3D UI to the game designers/programmers crowd. If…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2010 – Clarte VR4D – VR for Design
Clarte, who already brought to you the R-Screen, Ergo Wide 3, Sitac 3D and a lot of other VR pure joy, are now offering a very interesting application to help design small life spaces : VR4D. As you…
Read More »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. Heavy Rain is the story of a father whose kid has been kidnapped and his endeavour to get him back….
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 »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…
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