Tag: Virtual Reality
PSA Peugeot Citroen VR Center – New Video
PSA/Peugeot Citroen released a new video of their VR Center. They have a CAVE, a Holobench, and an Holostage ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBuNHqJrHHk[/youtube]
Read More »Old school VR by Sega and Nintendo
Did you know that in 1995 Nintendo released a portable VR console, called the Virtual Boy ? With a monochrome stereoscopic HMD with a 384×224 resolution, it was priced at 180$ and reportedly Nintendo sold 700’000 units. The…
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 »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 »IPT/EGVE 2007 – Hardware
I just returned from Weimar, Germany, attending the Immersive Projection Technologies/Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. This has been a really interesting event. I’ve met some very nice people and learned a lot of things! I’ll try to speak…
Read More »Virtual Reality in France
The newly formed AFRV [ French Association for VR/AR and 3D interaction ] is publishing some informal statistics about the state of VR in France in its “Journal de l’AFRV” (available to members). These stats are for general…
Read More »Laval Virtual 2007
These three great days have been very intense; holding the booth, meeting people, attending conferences, trying hardware and applications, being a jury member for the student competition. First things first, here are some pictures I took there. I…
Read More »See you at Laval Virtual !
I’m leaving today for Laval Virtual, the biggest VR tradeshow in Europe. See you there 😉 I hope the Kobitos will be there too!
Read More »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)…
Read More »Laval Virtual – Conferences
From the official page : At Laval Virtual 2007, 4 major themes will be highlighted: Envision the risk to save (Wednesday April 18th – contact : VRIC07-risk@laval-virtual.orgThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript…
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