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One step closer to home VR
Fresh from E3, and I’m sure you all have seen it, but still I have to print it here because I’m happy : we’re one big step closer to having VR at home 😉 The first controller, by…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2009 – Clarte’s R-Screen
I don’t have time right now to talk about everything that was at Laval Virtual 2009 because I’m leaving this afternoon to Jordan! So if there’s any VR Geek around there, let me know 😉 So I’ll just…
Read More »IEEE VR 2009
Then after two days of 3DUI, Searis, PIVE and workshops was the actual IEEE VR Conference. For four days the weather was rainy and cold, and finally on the last day the sun woke up and gave us…
Read More »IEEE VR 2009 – GlobeFish
The GlobeFish is a new device showed at IEEE VR 2009 by the team of Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich. In a nutshell it’s an improved spacemouse which is easier to use when using rotations. From their webpage :…
Read More »Visiting the Max Planck Institute
I’ve had the great honnor to be invited by Betty Mohler, who is currently working at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, to come and visit their research projects that use VR. Part of what they do…
Read More »Improved Circulafloor
The CirculaFloor is back ! From this article at BotJunkie : A 5 meter square of area is sufficient for continuous movement in any direction. The tiles also incorporate lifts sufficient to replicate the feeling of climbing stairs……
Read More »One LED 3D tracking with two wiimotes
Using two wiimotes and a simple calibration step, Simon Hay and his team of the Cambridge University are able to track a single LED using stereovision algorithms : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT6aQN-lwmo[/youtube] Ok now please somebody write an opensource software to…
Read More »Homebrew VR installation
Here’s a really nice VR setup by Timo Fleisch using two Wiimotes; one for hand tracking, one for head tracking. Simple, clever and efficient ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLy9AWi67XU[/youtube] And yes you do look ridiculous, so this is real VR 😉…
Read More »The story behind the Novint Falcon
The Financial Times has an interesting article about the creation and the innovative business model of the Falcon haptics device :  “They said: ‘How are you going to get game support when you don’t have an installed base…
Read More »Try Softkinetic technology at Siggraph (and win a Wii)
Visit the 3DVIA Virtools booth #1217Â ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO9jffcB1c8[/youtube]
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