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]

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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…

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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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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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!

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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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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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