Omni-Directional Treadmill



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The Omni-Directional Treadmill (ODT) is a revolutionary device for locomotion in large-scale virtual environments. The device allows its user to walk or jog in any direction of travel.
(http://www.vsd.bz/)

Another video uploaded by the manufacturer is here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msci440q18s

Popularity: 30% [?]

MultiUser VR Interaction



Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik. The Human Perception, Cognition and Action Department

Popularity: 26% [?]

ARhrrrr – An augmented reality shooter



ARhrrrr is an augmented reality shooter for mobile camera-phones. The phone provides a window into a 3d town overrun with zombies. Point the camera at our special game map to mix virtual and real world content. Civilians are trapped in the town, and must escape before the zombies eat them! From your vantage point in a helicopter overhead, you must shoot the zombies to clear the path for the civilians to get out. Watch out though as the zombies will fight back, throwing bloody organs to bring down your copter. Move the phone quickly to dodge them. You can also use Skittles as tangible inputs to the game, placing one on the board and shooting it to trigger an explosion.

Popularity: 3% [?]

Augmented Reality Intro and Review by Bryanton



Review of augmented reality applications by Bryanton, author of “Imagining the Tenth Dimension”

Popularity: 1% [?]

Augmented Reality Magic Trick



A card magician utilizes augmented reality to add another dimension to his magic.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Build your own virtual world



From their site:

Home of the 3D Chat, Virtual Worlds Building Platform

“Active Worlds, the web’s most powerful Virtual Reality experience, lets you visit and chat in incredible 3D worlds that are built by other users.  Think you have what it takes to build your own world, Virtual Reality game or training software? Active Worlds is the place for you, where in minutes you can create fascinating 3D worlds that others can visit and chat in.  Our White Label solution allows you to custom brand your virtual world and host it on your servers. Our enterprise product is the platform of choice for many fortune 100 corporations who want full control over their worlds behind their firewall without having the security risk of someone else accesing their content. For those looking to have fun, the Active Worlds Universe is a community of hundreds of thousands of users who chat and build 3D virtual reality environments in millions of square kilometers of virtual territory. Take a quick look at some of our satellite maps and see how our community has grown over the years.  Launch the free software and come check us out for yourself. You’ll be amazed at how vast our Virtual Worlds universe is and the capability of our technology.”

http://www.activeworlds.com/

Popularity: 4% [?]

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote



Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net

Popularity: 15% [?]

Industrial Mining Application



Application of immersive technology for the mining industry. With these sorts of applications, workers can remotely complete their tasks from a much safer environment without subjecting themselves to harsh environments or critical dangers.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data: JoAnn Kuchera-Morin on TED.com



JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements … (Recorded at TED2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 06:28.)

Allosphere is a three-story, multi- modal-dimensional-sensory, way for a group of collaborators to interact with complex data.  The experience brings to mind the subtle interactions of a string quintet, each in turn leading then following then combining their skills to sum greater than their parts.  Allosphere brings individual visionaries of the arts and entertainment community together in harmony–ultimately creating new expressive possibilities.

By truly immersing a group of well prepared collaborators in their data visually, aurally and temporally, together they are able to grasp data relationships that were simply too complex to understand before…

Popularity: 27% [?]

Second Life as a Platform for Augmented Reality



This demo shows the use of Second Life as a platform for Augmented Reality. With our modified Second Life client, avatars and other Second Life graphics can be superimposed perspectively correct on a live video stream and in real-time. For more information please visit http://arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu

Popularity: 2% [?]

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