Circular Floor Video
Here’s a pretty cool video of the CirculaFloor in action, developped at the VR Lab of the University of Tsukuba. “CirculaFloor is a locomotion interface using a group of movable tiles. (…) Circulation of the tiles enables the…
Read More »BCI: Brain-Computer Interfaces
Take a look at the impressive videos of BCI ( Brain-Computer Interfaces) from the Graz University of Technology Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces. It goes from moving into a virtual world through thinking only, to manipulating a hand prosthetics…
Read More »The first cave gets an upgrade
From this article at AScribe : “More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University’s six-sided virtual reality room. (..) Iowa State’s C6 opened in June 2000 as the country’s first…
Read More »Silicon Graphics filing for bankruptcy
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Read More »Laval Virtual : a mini video
Here’s a mini video filmed by a student of the Ecole de Design de Nantes, featuring the Virtual Brownie, Touch Light, Invisible and some others. This blog (in french) also has some articles about installations presented at laval…
Read More »Head-Mounted Projective Display
I was reading 3D User Interfaces and I stumbled across the definition of a HMPD. I didn’t know this kind of VR display, and it looks quite promising ! Here’s what I understand of it, based on those…
Read More »Paper: Advances in X3D multi-user virtual environments
This paper presents the current state of the art in web3d multi-user technologies and more specifically networked virtual environment platforms that support the X3D standard.
Read More »The Metaverse Roadmap
from Metaverse Roadmap : “What happens when video games meet Web 2.0? When virtual worlds meet geospatial maps of the planet? When simulations get real and life and business go virtual? When your avatar becomes your blog, your…
Read More »Make your own anaglyph camera
Found on Makezine, here’s a step-by-step instructions by Instructables to build your own anaglyph camera!
Read More »Virtual money in the real world
Read on ArsTechnica : Players of the game Entropia, which has a virtual economy ‘explicitly backed by real-world money’ can now get a real credit-card to get the money they earned inside the virtual world to the real…
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