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Virtual Showcase
A team of ESIEA students created this really nice system using a single wide-angle projector and NaturalPoint’s Optitrack cameras to track the viewpoint : It’s good to see that more and more people are working on nice displays…
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 »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 ! And yes you do look ridiculous, so this is real VR 😉 Thanks…
Read More »The offensive on consumer 3D-stereo
It seems a lot is happening on the battle front for consumer stereoscopy. A coalition between screen/projector manufacturers and nVidia is forming a coherent response to these challenging issues : From Stereoscopy.com : Forming the foundation for a…
Read More »Old School VR – Tomytronics 3D
Back in 1980, long before Nintendo’s Virtual Boy (1995) and Sega’s VR Console (1994), Tomy released several stereoscopic games, built-in in a spaceship-shaped handheld “console”. As you can see, they have the same old LCD screens…
Read More »Waterscreen for large displays
Woops, bad manipulation so this old post got lost.. Here is it again : From Clickz, just a nice example of using finely sprayed water as a screen, “part of a promotion for an upcoming movie release” :
Read More »jDome – an interview of John Nilson
One day, John Nilson, a 38 years old swedish system engineer, decided he wanted to play in an immersive environment and that everybody should have the same chance. So he created the jDome: And so as I’m in…
Read More »StarCAVE, a new type of CAVE
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit²) has built a new type of CAVE, the third generation is a diamond shaped CAVE ! It was conceived by Tom DeFanti and Daniel J. Sandin (with others, see…
Read More »3D Photos by Fujifilm, from capture to display
Yay back from China, more about this later. As you may know, I sorta like taking pictures. And I also sorta like VR. 3D pictures have been around since the first days of photo, but now Fujifilm is…
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