Tag: history
Interviewing Jeffrey Jacobson, creator of Cave Unreal Tournament
If you’re a VR Geek, you’ve probably already bumped into Cave Unreal Tournament (CaveUT), an adaptation of the Unreal engine to run in CAVEs and create VR applications. I’ve had the chance to meet its creator Jeffrey Jacobson…
Read More »VR History – The birth of the Crystaleyes shutterglasses
Lenny Lipton, founder of Stereographics and former CTO of RealD, talks in his blog in a not so humble series of articles [Part 1, Part 2] about the invention of the Crystaleyes shutterglasses : The basic concept of…
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 »Old School VR – Tomytronics 3D
Back in 1980, long before Nintendo’s Virtual Boy (1995) and Sega’s VR Console (1994), Tomy released several stereoscopic games, built-in in a spaceship-shaped handheld “console”. As you can see, they have the same old LCD screens…
Read More »Nintendo Virtual Boy video
Here’s the original TV ad for the Nintendo’s Virtual Boy.
Read More »Khufu/Kheops is back for good !
The great Khufu show is coming back and it’s here to stay! Friday 22 Feb. at La Géode, Jean-Pierre Houdin will be presenting his theory about the construction of the great Khufu (Kheops in french) pyramid. Then the…
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 »1977 StarWars’ 3D
Back in 1977 there were no Maya, no shaders, no spacemouse… Here’s another video from the EVL, the lab that created the Cave : (1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry…
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 »The Pyramid and the biggest VR screen
On Friday March 30th 2007, the biggest VR screen was inaugurated with a great event; A big show at La Géode (IMAX theater in Paris) to unveil the theory of Jean-Pierre Houdin about his theory on the construction…
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