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VR RC Car
Similar to the VR RC Airplane, here’s the same principle with a car : Of course, I want one :p
Read More »Tsukuba Walking System
Just when I said nothing interesting was happening it seems lots of things are spawning ! From NewLaunches : University of Tsukuba Japan has developed a dome shaped virtual reality walking system for patients patients suffering from a…
Read More »DIY 3D Controller
Kyle McDonald shows at Instructables.com how to make your own cheap 3d desktop tracker. Here’s a small video (non embeddable in my wordpress..) You need : One Arduino board (3) 270k resistors (3) 10k resistors Solder Wire Aluminum…
Read More »Virtual Walk Game Controller
Hum look at that : It doesn’t really seem to qualify as “natural walking”. Ok neither does the Virtusphere, and I can’t comment on the ODT since I’ve never tried it but as they want to study natural…
Read More »Consumer markerless tracking
Yesterday I attended the Dassault Systèmes Developer Conference (Devcon 2008), and had a good time playing with Softkinetic technology of markerless body tracking. They use a special camera that gives you a depth map and from that they…
Read More »Virtusphere review
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to test the Virtusphere for two days and could since watch several beginners try this device. The Virtusphere is a 2.6m sphere of 120kg made of ABS plastic, lying…
Read More »How to make your own multitouch surface
.. with a sheet of paper, some glass and a webcam! The NuiGroup shares this great video : I’ll have to take a look at this Touchlib, based on OpenCV which already has lots of multitouch functions.
Read More »Intuition – VR State of the Art
Intuition, the European VR Network of Excellence and soon to be European VR Association, has produced a nice VR State of the art back in 2004. It’s pretty complete with over 100 pages! Happy reading!
Read More »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…
Read More »Maglev Haptics
This article at NewsScientists talks about a new haptics device “levitated by magnets”. Ralph Hollis and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US, developed a haptic device with just one moving part. (…) A bowl with electromagnets concealed…
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