ProFORMA – 3D object scanning with a webcam
An interesting research project by the University of Cambridge called ProFORMA shows how to easily scan an object with only a webcam (that only sees in 2D). It’s not perfect yet but it sure is promising, and could…
Read More »Immersion, Place Illusion and Plausibility
Mel Slater, guru of the concept of presence, has just released a paper explaining his theories about immersion and presence. (Warning: You really have to be wide awake to read it =) He is explaining the concepts of…
Read More »Making fun of AR
I just laughed so much when I saw this video.. It exactly summarizes the current state of AR for marketing: useless! Simply displaying an object is boring! Adding crappy animations is boring! Come on guys, be creative, add…
Read More »On the way to flat displays for caves
The guys behind the StarCave have created a new VR display using flat HDTV. From this Physorg article : The technology, dubbed “NexCAVE,” was inspired by Calit2’s StarCAVE virtual reality environment and designed and developed by Calit2 Research…
Read More »Ultrasonic haptics
The University of Tokyo has demonstrated at Siggraph an interesting haptics system where you can feel contact .. without any contact ! From the paper : “Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display [Iwamoto et al. 2008]†is a tactile display…
Read More »VR-Gun
A plastic gun, a LCD, a Gyromouse, mix, shake, here’s the VR Gun : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ym0tZSWGMc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGSpAZtm38[/youtube] (I know, I’m two months late =) You will only get the rotations from the Gyromouse, so walking won’t help you. This…
Read More »3DUI Grand Prize
I’m very pleased to announce that I’m co-chairing the first 3DUI Grand Prize ! Description The 3D User Interfaces (3DUI) Conference (http://conferences.computer.org/3dui/3dui2010/) is running a new contest: the 3DUI Grand Prize. It is opened to anyone interested in…
Read More »3D photo (by Fuji)
Last year, Fuji announced a set of devices to capture/display 3d pictures. Now this is getting closer to reality. This 3D camera has two lenses and an autostereoscopic LCD on the back. Back at Dimension3, I had the…
Read More »OglPlane
I’ve just found myself wanting to test some OpenGL stereo and I couldn’t find the old-school OglPlane.exe program. It’s a simple program opening an OpenGL window with quad-buffer stereo and displaying a stereoscopic wireframe paper plane : We…
Read More »Autodesk stereoscopic whitepaper
I’m working several projects recently, one of which you’ll soon hear about (and will be able to participate in 😉 Autodesk has released a really interesting whitepaper on its Stereoscopic Filmmaking page : Read about the current state…
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