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Quebec Cyberpsychology Cave

Here’s a nice video (in french sorry) about a 6 faces CAVE used for therapy in Quebec. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoy7I1BGM5Y[/youtube]

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Your 3D application on the biggest VR screen

Dassault Systèmes (who owns Virtools who I work for) is running a challenge called “VR Experience” to produce content for La Geode, the biggest VR screen! You could win a BARCO stereoscopic projector worth 75,000 euros and 3DVIA…

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Sivic – VR Crime scene investigation

Here’s a video of the Sivic application made by ESCIN students and presented at Laval Virtual 2008. It was created in collaboration with french police to train officers at crime scene investigation. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC0gHv-Snmw[/youtube]

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Laval Virtual 2008 – How Virtual is VR to your brain ?

Lutz Jancke, from the Neuropsychology lab of Univeristy of Zurich, made an amazing presentation about the reality of VR to our brain. The short answer is for the brain, VR is just another reality; the brain only interprets…

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Virtual Reality for condom use study

Back from Laval! Lots of things to tell and show you, but that will require some time. In the meantime, this article talks about a study which “goal is to see if risky sexual decisions are based on…

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IEEE VR 2008, Training and Virtual Humans Session

From Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th March 2008 was the actual IEEE VR conference. See the complete program. Bigger Size Gallery. svgallery=ieee_vr_2008 Training Again, for me one of the most interesting applications of AR/VR is training. See also…

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Searis 2008

On March 9th I attended the Searis 2008 Workshop: Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems, which was the perfect workshop for me 😉 svgallery=searis2008 The workshop was about presenting existing architectures and regroup people working on…

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3DUI 2008

On saturday March 8th I attended the 3DUI Conference which was really interesting. svgallery=3dui2008 It seems the trend is to simplify 3D interactions by adding some real life constraints. A lot of talk was about using 2D or…

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VRPack 2.5 is out, MP Website is up

We’ve been working quite hard to give you a nice VRPack 2.5 on the Virtools 4.1 Platform. See the “What’s new” for more info. The website for a brand new product, 3DVIA MP, is online starting today, with…

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Khufu/Kheops is back for good !

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ba6Dch__c[/youtube] The great Khufu show is coming back and it’s here to stay! Friday 22 Feb. at La Géode, Jean-Pierre Houdin will be presenting his theory about the construction of the great Khufu (Kheops in french) pyramid. Then…

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