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DLP 3D – Stereoscopic HDTV & HD-Projectors
The DLP 3D technology is reaching mass market! This ZDNet article says that those TVs “which uses DLP-based rear projection and ranging in price from $1499 to $4500”. Moreover, Mitsubishi is planning 3D Blu-Ray player for early 2008….
Read More »Cheap “impact-generating” device
The 3rdSpace® Vest from TN Games allows you to feel impacts of bullets and punches inside the game. It works with air micro-compressors that generate impacts like “3 year old punching you” (words from a tester in the…
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…
Read More »Sony Patent for a VR Glove
From MaxConsole : A patent filed by Sony on November 7 2002 went live on January 9 of this year. The patent describes some sort of VR GLOVE which fits in the palm of the hand. Control sensors…
Read More »eMagin z800 price increased by 2.5, and some words about other HMDs
The eMagin Z800 was the closest thing to a good consumer HMD, at a somewhat affordable $599. The only reason why I didn’t buy it yet is that I haven’t been able to test it yet. But last…
Read More »Wiirtools
At last, the use of a Wiimote inside Virtools! You don’t even need a specific BB, only read values from a virtual joystick or emulate keystrokes. Thanks to Carl Kenner for GlovePie and Deon van der Westhuysen for…
Read More »Novint Falcon Demo, begins shipping June18th 2007 for $239.
From Novint webpage : The highly anticipated, award-winning Novint Falcon will begin shipping in a Limited Edition Bundle on June 18th, 2007. The exclusive bundle includes a Limited Edition Falcon, Newton’s Monkey Business Game Pack, with 24 fun…
Read More »Stereoscopic Game Development
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Read More »Sony to copy Wiimote ?
Sony is thinking about a “motion-sensitive controller”that would work like TrackIR and ART, that is with markers on the device and a camera to analyse their position. The Wii-mote has the camera inside the device and the markers…
Read More »Using the Wii accelerometers on the PC
Seems some people have connected the bluetooth Wiimote to a PC and started getting infos about the accelerometers. Here’s a page about the Wiimote protocol. This video (from marcan42 on youtube) is very shaky, so prepare for some…
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