Ford’s VR design tools
I had the chance to meet Elizabeth Baron, last year’s IEEE VR Keynote speaker, and manager of the VR Center in Product Development at Ford. But I’ve never visited all their VR equipment ! CrunchGear was more lucky…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2010 Videos
DS has just released all the videos they shot during Laval Virtual so thanks to them. Of course it’s only about applications using Virtools but it’s still interesting. Featuring David “iVEvangelist” Nahon! Randy Pausch once said about VR…
Read More »Quick Links #3
Don’t have time to post a full article ? No problem, Twitter to the rescue ! (And if you’re in Paris next moday (7th June), feel free to drop by our VRGeeks bar evening !) – IronMan simulator #diy…
Read More »What is VR ?
Back at Laval Virtual, I was struck about how many people say they’re doing VR where, according to my own (extremist) definition, it wasn’t even remotely VR ! Even some high rank scientists tried to promote their (commercial)…
Read More »Quick Links #2
Here’s what you missed if you’re not following me on Twitter ( @VRGeek ) : – Found a nice video from Iowa State Engineering on how they use their C6 #visualizationsystem http://bit.ly/9ITBTj – A nice reference of haptics gloves by Tom…
Read More »Does stereoscopy (S3D) matter ?
Now everyone is starting to realize that stereoscopy (S3D) is cool. Of course big companies are hoping to set a new trend to get more of our money, and the film industry looks at it as if it…
Read More »VR Geeks of Paris, unite !
So you’re a VR Geek and you live in Paris ? You want to meet other geeks like you, enjoy geeky immersive discussions and invent the future ? Join our VR Geeks Paris group and see you soon…
Read More »An introduction to 3D user interfaces
Dr Joe LaViola, one of the authors of the 3D UI bible “3D User Interfaces, Theory and Practice” has just released an article in Gamasutra to teach the basics of 3D UI to the game designers/programmers crowd. If…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2010 – Clarte VR4D – VR for Design
Clarte, who already brought to you the R-Screen, Ergo Wide 3, Sitac 3D and a lot of other VR pure joy, are now offering a very interesting application to help design small life spaces : VR4D. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECqdtdY-Gc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] As…
Read More »pCubee : A Perspective-Corrected Handheld Cubic Display
Here’s a nice prototype of display by the University of British Columbia, pCubee : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89OoXyuxTLM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] It has no stereoscopic capability, but the parallax (movements of objects based on their depth) is enough for you to correctly perceive their…
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