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IPT/EGVE 2007 – Hardware
I just returned from Weimar, Germany, attending the Immersive Projection Technologies/Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. This has been a really interesting event. I’ve met some very nice people and learned a lot of things! I’ll try to speak…
Read More »Intersense IS-1200 VisTracker
Back at IPT/EGVE, Intersense was presenting its MictroTrax and new Wand. The head tracker is really small, and the wand is smaller. It can fit on cheap, lightweight passive stereo glasses without any problem. I did the setup…
Read More »News on Brain Computer Interfaces
I’m just returning from IPT/EGVE 2007, more on that later. There have been several interesting talks about BCI (Brain Computer Interfaces). >> Wheelchair control from thought The first one was from Prof. Dr. Gert Pfurtscheller from the Laboratory…
Read More »Wii Fit
A new cool device for the Wii : [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5oNVIcMnZh4[/youtube]
Read More »Some haptics fun
Lionel Dominjon is a haptics master; he can make a PHANToM dance ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnRhska8f34[/youtube]
Read More »Omni-Directional Treadmill
I saw on Ray Stephenson’s blog a video of an omni-directional treadmill, commercialized by Virtual Space Devices, Inc. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs[/youtube] Virtual Space Devices, Inc. has developed omni-directional treadmill (ODT) technology over the last 10 years, working primarily with the…
Read More »InterSense MictroTrax announced : a new Wand !
Intersense is announcing a new tracking device for its IS-900 inertial/ultrasonic tracking system : the MictroTrax. It’s small, it’s slick, and it has a new Wand 😉 The new Head Tracker is over 40% smaller than the previous…
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 »“Stringwalker enables realistic walking in Virtual worlds”
Copy paste from this VirtualWorldlets article : The StringWalker is the work of Hiroo Iwata from the University of Tsukuba and will be demonstrated for the first time outside Japan at SIGGRAPH. The walker works by means of…
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…
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