Michael Abrash gave a talk at GDC on “Why VR is Hard” in which he discusses head-worn displays for VR and AR. I’ve mentioned Michael before, and there is lots of good stuff in this transcript of his talk that you should read! http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/03/31/gdc-2013-michael-abrash-virtual-reality-oculus-rift-presentation-slides-4415/all/1
This is an article to those who want to do gaming AR and need some inspiration. The basics of the block by block seems to be interesting base on what we seen in class with Argon. http://www.fastcompany.com/1313885/five-addictive-augmented-reality-gaming-apps
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/15/team-fortress-2-virtual-reality/ Valve is trying to port Team Forteress 2, an online game, on 3D glasses. What has to be known about TF2 is that game is used by Valve as a laboratory. For example, this is the first game of the company that implement micro-transaction (paying with real money for virtual items). So, if the […]
An interactive 4D amusement park in Korea. The environment has hologram, 360 degree sound, Augmented Reality and avatar among others. Check it out on the link below. There are a quite a few interesting videos on the site http://www.thelivepark.com/blog/en/archives/category/live_facade
Here’s the link to the page with the video (also embedded below) for the primesense sensor I mentioned in class. I personally think the “story” (if you can call it that) in the video is pretty pathetic, but watch it and consider each use of the tech. Some are good, some bad. What I like […]
I came across this interesting proof-of-concept by Microsoft, released during CES-13: In class today we discussed (or at least my conclusion of the discussion was) that 3D TVs do not really create a Virtual Environment because we do not really ever interact with it. But I guess it depends on what are you doing with […]