Augmented Reality on a mobile phone and interview of Int13
You may have seen the slow (but full-featured ARToolkit) AR on an iPhone, so here’s a fast version by French company Int13 on Windows Mobile, much more smooth! [In the meantime I heard that the iPhone doesn’t have…
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 »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 »Two VR companies going down
Trimersion, makers of cheap HMDs, seems to have gone out of business. Their website is down and people have been trying to contact them with no success. French company Nautilus, makers of VR applications and well know at…
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…
Read More »Miele creates everyday objects with its CAVE
Miele, a german “manufacturer and supplier of washing machines, ovens, vacuum cleaners, and refrigerators”, is now using a CAVE to design and prototype some of its products. This article from Gizmag has a story about it : By…
Read More »VisionaiR 3D : Interview
VisonaiR 3D is a company from the Netherlands, founded by Maarten van Grinsven in 2000. Their goal ? “From the start of forming my company I had the goal to bring VR to the general public (instead of Universities,…
Read More »Sony EyePet – Augmented Reality for all
Nice nice nice =)
Read More »The “Improve” Project : Architecture and Cars
Improve is a european project that intends to (surprisingly) improve the usability (hardware and software) of automotive and architectural applications, both VR and AR. The goals are : To develop stereoscopic lightweight transparent eyeglasses with OLED-based micro…
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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