Whatever happened to Virtual Reality

[ just adding old posts from previous Pixelsumo site ]

Just attended a very good lecture by Bob Stone, organised by The Institution of Electrical Engineers, on virtual reality. As the IEE website puts it:
“the fall and rise of VR over the past decade and will describe some of the recent successful applications that have helped to resurrect such a promising field of endeavour. The lecture will also review the current state of play in VR hardware and software, charting the development of head-mounted displays and associated wearable interaction devices, and highlighting the growing list of alternatives to these immersive technologies. Also addressed will be the evolution of highly usable, low-cost “even free” software tools, available from such sources as the Internet and the developers of “first-person shooter” (FPS) games engines”.

A very fast talking Bob Stone energetically covered a lot of material and I highly recommend this lecture to anyone whose city is on the tour.

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Something that I took away from the lecture was how weapons were now beginning to use controllers more like console joypads, as this is what new army recruits were so used to using, after years of Playstation2 / Xbox bashing.

Posted on February 16th 2005 under Virtual Reality