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Submission + - Control avatars and 3D worlds with Kinect (simplysim.net)

Submitted by descubes on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @02:35AM

descubes writes: The Kinect is more than just for games. SimplySim, a French startup making it easy to build 3D simulations and applications, has just posted a video showing how you can interact with photorealistic simulations just by moving the body. Is the Minority Report user interface finally becoming a reality?

Submission + - Controlling avatars and 3D worlds with a Kinect (simplysim.net)

Submitted by descubes on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:03PM

descubes writes: The Kinect is more than just for games. SimplySim, a French startup that makes it easy to build 3D simulations and applications, has just posted a video showing how you can interact with photorealistic simulations just by moving the body. Is the Minority Report user interface finally becoming a reality?

Submission + - Stereoscopy: What works, what doesn't (wordpress.com)

Submitted by descubes on Friday November 19, 2010 @07:53PM

descubes writes: We have been looking for a relatively cheap way to present the output of a 3D application using stereoscopy. Our objective was to see how an OpenGL application could generate stereoscopic output using commercially-available low-cost hardware. Our expectation was that a budget 3D laptop and a budget 3D projector would make for a budget 3D presentation solution. We tried machines with ATI and Nvidia chipsets, internal and external displays, Windows, Linux and MacOSX. The solution that ended up working the best was a total surprise...

Submission + - What you think is not what you code... (sourceforge.net) 1

Submitted by

Christophe

on Saturday November 17, 2007 @05:06PM

Christophe writes: "If you think that you know how to write a "maximum" function in your favorite programming language, and if you are happy with the result, then this presentation might give you second thoughts... And you may start to feel the need for a new programming language."

Submission + - The early days of 3D games (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

Christophe de Dinechin

on Saturday November 10, 2007 @06:43PM

Christophe de Dinechin writes: "What was Infogrames like when they occupied a single floor of a single building? Was Frederick Raynal already such a bright guy long before becoming insanely famous for "Alone in the Dark" (answer: yes)? How do you draw 3D using mostly additions? As the author of one of the earliest 3D videogames, I wrote a personal account of these crazy days, back when real men coded on real CPUs which had no clue about real numbers (aka floating point)."

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