Tag: VR Displays
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 »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 »DLP 3D – Stereoscopic HDTV & HD-Projectors
The DLP 3D technology is reaching mass market! This ZDNet article says that those TVs “which uses DLP-based rear projection and ranging in price from $1499 to $4500”. Moreover, Mitsubishi is planning 3D Blu-Ray player for early 2008….
Read More »Automatically adjust multiple projectors
Sorry for the lack of updates, I didn’t find time nor something enough interesting to say lately =) Here are two videos I found through this article about the Mersive technology, which “allows you to combine low cost…
Read More »Interactive 360º Light Field Display
From a Siggraph 2007 paper, heres’ an interesting new display technology “for an autostereoscopic light field display able to present interactive 3D graphics to multiple simultaneous viewers 360 degrees around the display.”. This video (86.6MB, (Quicktime h264) )…
Read More »Comparing HMDs
Marc Bernatchez, from VResources, has an interesting article about comparing HMDs. He compares angular resolution, field of view, stereo overlapping, and the relevance of all these factors when compared to human visual abilities. For example, here’s the summary…
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 »eMagin Z800 review
I wrote an extensive review of the eMagin Z800 HMD for VResources.org. Go read it now to know everything you want to know about this HMD 😉
Read More »Kheops/Khufu, Photos, Video and next show
The first public presentation of the Khufu experience on the 24th May 2007 went extremely well. The show received a lot of praise. Lots of questions were asked at the end, and Jean-Pierre Houdin happily answered them all….
Read More »Stylish polarized glasses
If you’re tired of looking like an alien when wearing polarized glasses, you should try those from American Polarizer Inc. (availbable in linear and circular) : Ideal for this summer !
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