{"id":825,"date":"2010-01-22T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T09:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T09:48:45","slug":"esiea-virtual-showcase-new-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/esiea-virtual-showcase-new-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"ESIEA &#8211; Virtual Showcase : New videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve<a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/virtual-showcase\/\"> already talked about the Virtual Showcase<\/a>, created by a team of teachers and students of the ESIEA french engineering school,\u00c2\u00a0and I&#8217;ve also had the chance to test it : it rocks ! It&#8217;s elegant, it&#8217;s lowcost and it just works.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Lerenard, ESIEA teacher and VR expert has sent me two new videos of the project:<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ixqttxODnmE[\/youtube]\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nRYybo2WNwU[\/youtube]\n<p>This version is monoscopic, but they&#8217;re also working on an anaglyph and active stereoscopy version.<\/p>\n<p>The only remaining problem, as for any VR application, is that the required head tracking takes some space (you don&#8217;t see that but there are at least six Optitrack cameras dispatched around) and that for the stereoscopic version you would need glasses. You wouldn&#8217;t be able to do that with four autostereoscopic screens since their viewing range is too small and they only have horizontal parallax.<\/p>\n<p>Other solutions like the Holopub by french company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beinrelief.fr\/\">BeInRelief<\/a> exist :<\/p>\n[dailymotion]http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x9ojfx_holopub_tech[\/dailymotion]\n<p>Although it&#8217;s totally not holographic (I hate that when &#8216;holography&#8217; is misused as it is 99% of the time!!), it&#8217;s a pretty cool marketing solution : a screen, a semi-transparent mirror, and you&#8217;re done ! \u00c2\u00a0No glasses, no tracking, illusion of depth (no stereoscopy, no parallax), integration of 3d images on top of a physical object.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in the future baby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already talked about the Virtual Showcase, created by a team of teachers and students of the ESIEA french engineering school,\u00c2\u00a0and I&#8217;ve also had the chance to test it : it rocks ! It&#8217;s elegant, it&#8217;s lowcost and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}