Tag: Virtual Reality
ART FingerTracking
A neat new optically tracked device by ART, the FingerTracking : The Fingertracking device is now fully integrated in the DTrack system, wireless and able to track two hands with three fingers each. The Fingertracking device is an…
Read More »IBM and the Metaverse
For those of you who don’t know what the Metaverse is, I’ll post an article about that later. Briefly, SecondLife is one Metaverse, a “virtual reality-based Internet“. As you may know, more and more big companies start to…
Read More »Sony to copy Wiimote ?
Sony is thinking about a “motion-sensitive controller”that would work like TrackIR and ART, that is with markers on the device and a camera to analyse their position. The Wii-mote has the camera inside the device and the markers…
Read More »Why gesture gives you more immersion ?
Here’s an interesting theory, explained for the Wii : “How the Nintendo Wii will get you emotionally invested in video games.” “we have to revisit an old theory of emotion, first proposed by the great American psychologist and…
Read More »The future of internet, the inter-virtual worlds
Here’s a really interesting article, found through vroot.org, about where the web and online virtual worlds are heading. Notably talking about the multiverse initiative and how it could federate all online VW into one big inter-vw, just as…
Read More »LiveMove : Motion recognizer
Here’s a video of AiLive LiveMove, that allows you to train your application to recognize the 3d motion (for the wiimote for example 😉 quickly and simply.
Read More »Sensics piSight : first review
[Update: This was written 3 years ago, the product is now much better, lighter and easy to use!] I’ve had the chance to test the famous Sensics piSight yesterday. I could only test it for 5 mins, and…
Read More »MetaMersion : Immersive Gaming System
This article at TechEBlog talks about MetaMersion, a company that wants to bring games into VR. The video is really cool. Also check out the photos From the website : “The backpack (..) contains software that is read…
Read More »VR Mario Bros
Mouahaha, check out the VR Mario Bros (through VRoot ) [Update: Video has been removed 🙁 ]
Read More »PSA Peugeot Citroen VR Center – Video
I already talked about PSA Peugeot Citroen VR Center, but now here’s a pretty cool video ( Go to “L’ADN en Images” then “Version Haut Débit” and “Le Centre de Réalité Virtuelle” ).
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