Tag: 3dui

3DUI Contest 2011 Winners

3DUI 2011 is now over and the 3DUI Contest winners of 2011 have been announced ! 1st prize : Virginia Tech (again!) Great idea of “building” the pieces instead of choosing them among all the pieces ! 2nd…

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3DUI Contest 2011

The next 3dui contest rules are now available : Build an application that allows users to solve simple 3D puzzles such as that shown in Figure 1. The system should measure time of completion, and it should provide…

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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…

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3DUI Grand Prize – Extended deadline

Just a reminder that if you want to participate in the 3DUI Grand Prize you have until the end of the month to register !

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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…

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3DUI, Searis, PIVE 2009

Two days before the real IEEE VR conference are other international events, mostly running in parallel. So choosing between one or another is really heartbreaking. The organizers managed to have only a single track for the VR conference…

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VR in Marseille

The CRVM , VR research center in sunny Marseille, south of France, had the greatest idea of publishing lots of the videos of their work (in french). (I’m sure you can guess what software they’re using..) Here are…

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Navidget

Navidget is a really nice navigation technique developped by Martin Hachet and his team (they also organized the VRST 2008 conference and created the CAT 6DOF input device). Navidget is a new interaction technique for camera positioning in…

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3DUI 2008

On saturday March 8th I attended the 3DUI Conference which was really interesting. svgallery=3dui2008 It seems the trend is to simplify 3D interactions by adding some real life constraints. A lot of talk was about using 2D or…

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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)…

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