Feel and Experience Virtual Reality in The Cocoon

The Cocoon, designed by  Tino Schaedler will be  a sleek and shiny human-sized dome where you'll  feel and experience Virtual Reality     enveloped by a 360° display screen and full surround sound.

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Designers developing virtual-reality 'Cocoon'

• The Immersive Cocoon will let you step inside interactive 3D virtual worlds
  
• Motion-tracking cameras will provide a "Minority Report"-style interface
  
• It could be used to explore virtual museums, like the "Virtual Guggenheim"
  
• Augmented reality superimposes virtual information onto the real world

LONDON, England (CNN) -- You're walking along a street in Roman Pompeii at the start of the first millennium when you notice a spectacular stone building. You reach out towards it and your guide informs you it's a temple to the god Jupiter, built in 200 BC. With a flick of your wrist you save the data and, school assignment complete, you step out of your Cocoon and back into your living room.

Educational historical journeys are just one possible use of the Immersive Cocoon, a walk-in virtual-reality pod being developed by NAU, an international design collective that aims to revolutionize the way we interact with computers.
When complete, the Immersive Cocoon will be a sleek and shiny human-sized dome. Step inside and you'll be enveloped by a 360° display screen and full surround sound.

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The designer

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Clipped from: YouTube - Tino Schaedler

Tino Schaedler, the art director for digital set for "Charlie and the Chocolate factory" and "Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix". His double competence is the key of his ability and allow him to merge the two element of a set creation: the phisical and the digital side

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Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data; some applications and demonstrations.

clipped from news.hiperia3d.com What Are Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, And Augmented Reality? "Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one" -Wikipedia "A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars" - Wikipedia "Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data" - Wikipedia clipped from consiliera.wordpress.com Ray-Ban offers Augmented Reality service to sell glasses online Augmented Reality steps into our living-room with this new web service from Ray-Ban: All you need is a web cam and their software (PC only). Then you pick some glasses from the online catalogue and see yourself in a virtual mirror. clipped from consiliera.wordpress.com Another pragmatic example of Augmented Reality in your everyday life: Wikitude AR Travel Guide for mobile phones

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Andrey Gorbunov: ARPainter - Augmented Reality 3D Drawing

ARPainter is a program for the free-hand spatial drawing of 3D objects.

The program makes the creation of complex, nonstandard 3D objects tens times faster. Effective for entertainment, movies computer graphics, scientific simulation etc.

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Beyond Tomorrow (Augmented Reality)

This short clip illustrates the functionality of Augmented Reality.

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Augmented Reality Encyclopedia

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Physics and Augmented Reality - Part 1

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Physics and Augmented Reality - Part 2

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Total Immersions Augmented Reality Demo

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THE DAWN OF MIXED REALITY - A 2008 Archive Video

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StarCAVE A 3-D Virtual Reality Environment

The StarCAVE,developed at UC San Diego, is a virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens surrounding the viewer, and onto the floor as well.

clipped from www.universityofcalifornia.edu 3-D virtual reality environment developed at UC San Diego helps scientists innovate Its name sounds like something out of science fiction, but the StarCAVE at the University of California, San Diego is now a science fact. The virtual-reality environment allows groups of scientists to venture into worlds as small as nanoparticles and as big as the cosmos – permitting new insights that could fuel discoveries in many fields. Early users of the StarCAVE include UC San Diego researchers in biomedicine, neuroscience, structural engineering, archaeology, earth science, genomics, art history and other disciplines. clipped from www.calit2.net Calit2 researchers explore proteins in 3D from the Protein Data Bank, displayed inside the StarCAVE. Calit2 project scientist Jurgen Schulze navigates "virtually" the first floor of a computer model of Calit2's headquarters building at UC San Diego. clipped from uk.youtube.com Future in Review 2008 -Calit2 StarCave Tour

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EON's ICUBE

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eon icube offers incredibly immersive 3d vr experience

This VR technology provides for a completely immersive 3-dimensional experience by surrounding users in a cube of digital imagery, combined with stereoscopic glasses and motion-tracking hardware to provide for a dizzying ride through virtual environments.



EON Reality’s ICube system uses an array of high-definition video projectors to bounce real-time CGI images into a cubic room covered with white screen surfaces. Each visitor dons a special pair of lightweight 3D glasses which can be outfitted with IR markers to detect head movements.

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EON's I CUBE Demo

Clipped from: EON Reality, Inc. - The world's leading interactive 3D visual content management and Virtual Reality software provider

By integrating EON software and applications with various display systems, EON provides state-of-the-art products and solutions for immersive and stereoscopic viewing, from portable Tablet PCs and Glass free Stereo display systems to curved-screen and Immersive Rooms consisting of multi-channel projection walls. The EON software tools are seamlessly integrated with a wide range of display systems providing customers with a unique flexibility to publish content.

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EON ICUBE

The EON ICUBE™, is a revolutionary PC based multi-sided immersive environment in which participants are completely surrounded by virtual imagery and 3D sound. The EON ICUBE represents a significant innovative milestone in high-end visualization systems development. Typically, high-end immersive systems have until today been complex, difficult to use and expensive to maintain. Unlike the older generation CAVE®, the EON ICUBE is easy to use even for non programmers, provides an unsurpassed speed of immersive content creation and deployment, utilizes a new light enhancing rigid wall material, and has built-in collaborative capabilities.

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Consumer Experience

The EON ICUBE consists of 3, 4 or 6 walls according to the users requirements, and that can be setup in any configuration. Thanks to the rear-projection of the images and the flawless image continuity in the corners, the illusion of a complete sense of presence in the virtual environment is created.

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Product ICube

EON ICUBE has the ability to rapidly deploy 3D interactive virtual simulations using a series of built-in classes of objects, drivers and a large library of 3D models, textures, and easy to use built-in functionalities.

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Haptic Perception in Virtual Reality

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Haptic perception

Haptic perception is the process of recognizing objects through touch. It involves a combination of somatosensory perception of patterns on the skin surface (e.g., edges, curvature, and texture) and proprioception of hand position and conformation.

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Our daily lives are more and more computerized with advance in networking and computers.
It is increasing importance such as interfaces, sensors and robotics. These technologies connects the information-world and the real-world.

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This demonstration focuses on two haptic experiences: sensing the composition and stiffness of an object, and estimating dynamics for multiple objects. Slight vibrations express the differences between materials and degrees of stiffness.

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We propose a new method for Symmetrical Haptic Interaction System with Virtual Creatures (VCs) in Mixed Reality (MR). In this work, we can interact VCs directly, not only through some tools but also with our fingers. If we touch VCs, we can see and feel their reaction.

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Robots and virtual reality on show in Tokyo

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The developers of the ring actually debuted it a little earlier in the year with a poster at SIGGRAPH. Virtual Creatures which interact with the device can be moved by the users pushes and respond to the type of contact. With light petting, the VC will display happy emotions. A strong push will cause the VC to avoid or react negatively to the user. This complex behavior for the VC gives an added layer of realism to the augmented reality interaction. After all, what use is having a finger that can manipulate a virtual world if the virtual world doesn’t react appropriately.

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Google Launches Lively -- 3D Virtual World

Google's just launched Lively is a 3-D simulation application where users can customize avatars and create environments (rooms) with stuff they pick from a product catalog. The environments can also be embedded in blogs or web sites.

clipped from www.lively.com Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design clipped from www.youtube.com Lively by Google is a new product available in Google Labs. Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design. clipped from www.readwriteweb.com clipped from www.lively.com Create your own virtual space Express yourself Add your room to your site clipped from news.yahoo.com Google ventures into virtual reality with 'Lively' Google thinks Lively will encourage even more people to dive into alternate realities because it isn't tethered to one Web site like Second Life, and it doesn't cost anything to use. After installing a small packet of software, a user can enter Lively from other Web sites, like social networking sites and blogs. The Lively application already works on Facebook, one of the Web's hottest hangouts, and Google is working on a version suitable for an even larger online social network, News Corp.'s MySpace. clipped from www.sizlopedia.com Google Lively: 3D Interactive Virtual World clipped from www.eweek.com Google Gives Virtual Reality a Second Life

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