Virtual Reality for Virtual Eternity
A grant has been attributed to the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Central Florida in Orlando to create realistic avatars of historical figures that could hold a conversation. From Newswise : (…) UIC will…
Read More »VR Nostalgia, look at the future!
Back in the 90s there was a lot of hype about Virtual Reality, but the technology didn’t live up to the expectations. I found this video of one of the most famous movie about VR, Johnny Mnemonic (1995)…
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 »Another world, another time
Tonight I went to a conference organized by the french chapter of the International Game Developpers Association, about old school game development. Invited were Philippe ULRICH et Didier BOUCHON, from ERE Informatique, authors of some mythical games like…
Read More »Laval Virtual – Conferences
From the official page : At Laval Virtual 2007, 4 major themes will be highlighted: Envision the risk to save (Wednesday April 18th – contact : VRIC07-risk@laval-virtual.orgThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript…
Read More »Teapotters
Teapotters is to 3D what Flickr is to pictures. You can interactively look at 3D models, post your own models, assign tags, apply different shaders, and download the file if needed. You can also embed the player to…
Read More »The story behind the Trimersion HMD
[Update Oct 2008: The company seems to be dead now…] [Update Oct 2009: Worse, they are now being sued by their investors !! See comments] When I learned that eMagin increased their prices, I went back to look…
Read More »Virtual World Has Billions of Residents
Through Terra Nova, a funny article at GameSpot about a new MMO : Real Life. Real life isn’t above reproach. In one of the stranger design decisions in the game, for some reason you have no choice in…
Read More »VR to create a new communication form
There’s an interesting set of articles at Edge, about why some of the greatest minds of this planet are optimistic. Jaron Lanier thinks that “Interpersonal Communication Will Become More Profound” thanks to VR : I’ve been fascinated by…
Read More »Lenticulations
Interesting technique to see depth in images, the lenticulation. It seems all you have to do is take 3 offseted pictures. Amazing =) Does anybody know how to build/buy one of those camera?
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