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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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,…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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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