Tag: cave

Two new Caves in France

I’ve been able to test two new Caves this month : – The new SAS3+ of Clarte, – The EVE of the Limsi lab They are typical modern systems: they are reconfigurable and the pixel density is not uniform…

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StarCAVE, a new type of CAVE

The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit²) has built a new type of CAVE, the third generation is a diamond shaped CAVE ! It was conceived by Tom DeFanti and Daniel J. Sandin (with others, see…

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Miele creates everyday objects with its CAVE

Miele, a german “manufacturer and supplier of washing machines, ovens, vacuum cleaners, and refrigerators”, is now using a CAVE to design and prototype some of its products. This article from Gizmag has a story about it : By…

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VisionaiR 3D : Interview

VisonaiR 3D is a company from the Netherlands, founded by Maarten van Grinsven in 2000. Their goal ? “From the start of forming my company I had the goal to bring VR  to the general public (instead of Universities,…

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Laval Virtual 2008 – Tradeshow

This year Laval Virtual was celebrating its 10th anniversary. The tradeshow is getting bigger and there was not enough room for all the exhibitors that wanted a booth! There was not many technical innovations, rather evolutions of existing…

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The state of Virtual Reality .. in 1993 !

The guys at EVL are posting a lot of videos !! Those two show a state of VR in 1993, with an impressive list of videos and applications. It would be really nice to have one such video…

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The pocket cathedral – birth of the CAVE

Alex Bouchet showed me those two vintage videos of the early days of the CAVE : “(1991) before the CAVE was called “The CAVE” it was internally named the Pocket Cathedral (actually it was called the Closet Cathedral…

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Cave Unreal Tournament Video

Alex Bouchet sent me this video of him playing Jeffrey Jacobson’s Cave Unreal Tournament : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yan8R4aZfhg[/youtube] Alex says it’s a bit buggy (synchronisation problems), and the navigation is not very natural yet, but the immersion awesome. Can I…

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AFRV – 2nd days

The french association for virtual reality (AFRV [fr], english page here) was holding its annual meeting in Marseille. Nearly all the major actors of VR in France were there. The complete photo gallery is here. – The 3x3x4m…

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Virtools VRPack in action

Here are two videos demonstrating interesting (read “fun”) uses of VR. Lightsaber and 3d modelling! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GBf9r7aINY[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRYDv-kGscM[/youtube] Related article : VR FPS : Atrium Experience

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