Tag: VR Devices
The state of Virtual Reality – Part 1
Happy new year ! Let it be full of happiness and success, virtual and real =) Lately I’ve been reading articles by some so-called journalists saying VR was one of the biggest technology flops in the last 20…
Read More »Cyberwalk project
The Max Planck Institute, along with other german and italian institutions, is running a program called Cyberwalk which was first demonstrated in April 2007. Their flyer explains it all : The Goal Un-constrained, quasi-natural omni-directional walking in virtual…
Read More »VR in USB norm
Did you know that VR devices are represented in the USB HID norm ? More precisely in the Usage tables, page 43. This document describes all the usages that a USB device can represent, a sort of abstract…
Read More »Cheap “impact-generating” device
The 3rdSpace® Vest from TN Games allows you to feel impacts of bullets and punches inside the game. It works with air micro-compressors that generate impacts like “3 year old punching you” (words from a tester in the…
Read More »Markerless realtime 3D tracking & modeling
A french lab, who published a paper at Siggraph 2007, is working on a impressive markerless tracking/modeling system, the GrImage Platform: This architecture is designed for mixed reality applications requiring such dynamic models, tele-immersion for instance. (…) The…
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 »Intersense IS-1200 VisTracker
Back at IPT/EGVE, Intersense was presenting its MictroTrax and new Wand. The head tracker is really small, and the wand is smaller. It can fit on cheap, lightweight passive stereo glasses without any problem. I did the setup…
Read More »News on Brain Computer Interfaces
I’m just returning from IPT/EGVE 2007, more on that later. There have been several interesting talks about BCI (Brain Computer Interfaces). >> Wheelchair control from thought The first one was from Prof. Dr. Gert Pfurtscheller from the Laboratory…
Read More »Wii Fit
A new cool device for the Wii : [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5oNVIcMnZh4[/youtube]
Read More »Some haptics fun
Lionel Dominjon is a haptics master; he can make a PHANToM dance ! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnRhska8f34[/youtube]
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