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The state of Virtual Reality .. in 1993 !
The guys at EVL are posting a lot of videos !! Those two show a state of VR in 1993, with an impressive list of videos and applications. It would be really nice to have one such video…
Read More »The state of Virtual Reality – Part 1
Happy new year ! Let it be full of happiness and success, virtual and real =) Lately I’ve been reading articles by some so-called journalists saying VR was one of the biggest technology flops in the last 20…
Read More »PSA Peugeot Citroen VR Center – New Video
PSA/Peugeot Citroen released a new video of their VR Center. They have a CAVE, a Holobench, and an Holostage ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBuNHqJrHHk[/youtube]
Read More »Old school VR by Sega and Nintendo
Did you know that in 1995 Nintendo released a portable VR console, called the Virtual Boy ? With a monochrome stereoscopic HMD with a 384×224 resolution, it was priced at 180$ and reportedly Nintendo sold 700’000 units. The…
Read More »Cave Unreal Tournament Video
Alex Bouchet sent me this video of him playing Jeffrey Jacobson’s Cave Unreal Tournament : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yan8R4aZfhg[/youtube] Alex says it’s a bit buggy (synchronisation problems), and the navigation is not very natural yet, but the immersion awesome. Can I…
Read More »Virtual Reality in France
The newly formed AFRV [ French Association for VR/AR and 3D interaction ] is publishing some informal statistics about the state of VR in France in its “Journal de l’AFRV” (available to members). These stats are for general…
Read More »Kheops/Khufu, Photos, Video and next show
The first public presentation of the Khufu experience on the 24th May 2007 went extremely well. The show received a lot of praise. Lots of questions were asked at the end, and Jean-Pierre Houdin happily answered them all….
Read More »Kheops For All !
As said by Olivier, you can now book a seat for the first public Kheops event at La Géode in Paris, on Thursday, 24 mai at 20h00. The theory of Jean-Pierre Houdin on the construction of the Kheops/Khufu…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2007
These three great days have been very intense; holding the booth, meeting people, attending conferences, trying hardware and applications, being a jury member for the student competition. First things first, here are some pictures I took there. I…
Read More »VR Medical training should be mandatory
Here’s an interesting article from Nature about the advantages on using VR for surgery training, but also for procedures standardisation : Virtual surgery could soon be a realityVirtual reality (VR) simulators should be used to teach doctors new…
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