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Razer Hydra – Cheap magnetic tracking
I just got my Razer Hydra, the new cheap (140$/€) magnetic trackers distributed by Razer, and created by Sixense. Magnetic tracking was the king of tracking several years ago, with Ascension and Polhemus leading the way. Magnetic tracking…
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…
Read More »VRPN tutorial
As part of the endeavour of the VR Geeks to democratize VR, I wrote a VRPN tutorial. VRPN (Virtual Reality Peripheral Network) is a free, open source, tool that handles many VR devices. VRPN acts as a device server….
Read More »VR Kit – Wall : A dream come true
Following the VR Kit – HMD (VR Goggles), here’s the Wall ! If you want to build one for yourself, join the VR Geeks ! I have to say I’ve been waiting to have this kind of setup…
Read More »VR Kit – HMD : Portable VR
I finally have a first prototype of a HMD based VR Kit. This is a work I’m doing with my fellow VR Geeks of Paris. By the way we’ve just started a new webpage : http://www.VRGeeks.org There you…
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 »GhostGlove – Haptic glove
(found through ImmersiveTechBlog) Building upon the concept of the Gravity Grabber, the Tachi Lab has created the Ghost Glove : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QhWkYqT82s[/youtube] Here’s the video explaining the Gravity Grabber [article in pdf], which I have tested and works quite…
Read More »Ultrasonic haptics
The University of Tokyo has demonstrated at Siggraph an interesting haptics system where you can feel contact .. without any contact ! From the paper : “Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display [Iwamoto et al. 2008]†is a tactile display…
Read More »VR-Gun
A plastic gun, a LCD, a Gyromouse, mix, shake, here’s the VR Gun : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ym0tZSWGMc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGSpAZtm38[/youtube] (I know, I’m two months late =) You will only get the rotations from the Gyromouse, so walking won’t help you. This…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2009
The 11th edition of Laval Virtual has been held from the 22th to the 26th of April 2009, and to me it was one of the nicest edition ever! As the conference center was moved a bit further…
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