Tag: VR Devices
Omni-Directional Treadmill
I saw on Ray Stephenson’s blog a video of an omni-directional treadmill, commercialized by Virtual Space Devices, Inc. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs[/youtube] Virtual Space Devices, Inc. has developed omni-directional treadmill (ODT) technology over the last 10 years, working primarily with the…
Read More »InterSense MictroTrax announced : a new Wand !
Intersense is announcing a new tracking device for its IS-900 inertial/ultrasonic tracking system : the MictroTrax. It’s small, it’s slick, and it has a new Wand 😉 The new Head Tracker is over 40% smaller than the previous…
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 »“Stringwalker enables realistic walking in Virtual worlds”
Copy paste from this VirtualWorldlets article : The StringWalker is the work of Hiroo Iwata from the University of Tsukuba and will be demonstrated for the first time outside Japan at SIGGRAPH. The walker works by means of…
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 »Sony Patent for a VR Glove
From MaxConsole : A patent filed by Sony on November 7 2002 went live on January 9 of this year. The patent describes some sort of VR GLOVE which fits in the palm of the hand. Control sensors…
Read More »WiiRobot and a sword
That’s pretty cool! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEotHQgUsg&eurl=[/youtube] More infos at TechEBlog
Read More »Wiirtools
At last, the use of a Wiimote inside Virtools! You don’t even need a specific BB, only read values from a virtual joystick or emulate keystrokes. Thanks to Carl Kenner for GlovePie and Deon van der Westhuysen for…
Read More »Novint Falcon Demo, begins shipping June18th 2007 for $239.
From Novint webpage : The highly anticipated, award-winning Novint Falcon will begin shipping in a Limited Edition Bundle on June 18th, 2007. The exclusive bundle includes a Limited Edition Falcon, Newton’s Monkey Business Game Pack, with 24 fun…
Read More »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…
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