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Category Archives: Virtual Reality
Z-Space : Holographic 3D with Spatial Persistence
The Z-Space display is being developed by a California company called Infinite Z. By tracking user’s eye movements with 3D glasses, the display creates not only the illusion of 3 dimensionality – but unlike most 3D systems – it persists … Continue reading
3D Library Services at the University of Michigan
FormFonts 3D has the world’s largest 3D library of professionally developed SketchUp components, and we have a fondness for library sciences, and all things 3D. So we are delighted to see the University of Michigan is keeping up with the … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, Augmented Reality, Digital Fabrication, Holographic Technology, Physible, Reality Hacking, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3-D, 3D and university libraries, 3D Printing, library science, Michigan 3D Lab, MIDEN, photo gallery, SketchUp Components, virtual reality
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Projected Reality – Outdoors and In
By Fred Abler Artists have discovered powerful video projectors, and the conflict-of-perception between a projected image and its underlying ‘canvas’ has never been greater. A new genre of art uses architecture-as-canvas, and is loosely known as Urban Projection Mapping. Fig- … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Augmented Reality, Holographic Technology, Interior Design, Minimalist Movement, Reality Hacking, Uncategorized, Virtual Reality
Tagged Holodeck, holotech, Immersive projection, microsoft, Mr Beam projected living room, projecting video on buildings, Startrek Holodeck, Urban Projection Mapping, Urban Screen, virtual architecture, virutal interiors, Xbox Platform
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The Raster Revolution – Augmented Reality in Sports
by Fred Abler Modern technology marketing owes a debt to Everett Rogers, an Iowa farm boy who’s father loved electromechanical equipment, but loathed biological-chemical innovations – even though hybrid seed corn yielded 25% more crop and was resistant to drought. … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Augmented Reality, Reality Hacking, Theory & Concepts, Virtual Reality
Tagged 1st and Ten line, 3D model of Football Player, AR technology adoption, Diffusion of Innovation, early adopter, electronic line calling, enhanced reality, Everett Rogers, Football field, Hawk Eye, Instant replay tennis, Sportvision, technology in professional sports, technology marketing, The Atlantic
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BIM Bots – Virtual 3D Robots
by Fred Abler In the early oughts’ (2000) while working in a CAD research lab at CAL POLY, SLO, I became intensely interested in 3D ‘object-agents’. Today CAD/BIM users might call them “smart objects”, but there’s really a lot more … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, BIM, History, Reality Hacking, Revit, SketchUp, Smart Objects, Theory & Concepts, Virtual Design and Construction, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3D Scanning, BIM bots, Building Information Modeling, CAS Royal Institute of Technology, Curiosity Rover, Flesh and Machines, iRobot, Kinect, Kinect@Home, Microsoft Xbox 360, MIT AI Lab, model-based vision, Nouvell AI, Object avoidance, Rething Robotics, Robotics Research, Rodney Brooks, Subsumption Architecture
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DIY for Reality Hackers – FOV2Go
by Fred Abler This blog curates an eclectic range of 3D topics. Very occasionally I find newsworthy items that touch on two topics. But never before have I found emerging research that covers them all at once… and that is … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Augmented Reality, Maker Movement, Reviews, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3D Research, App Store, AR, Augmented Reality, FOV2Go, Immersive VR, Mixed Reality, MxR Lab, Perry Hoberman, Reality Hackers, stereoscopic unity package, Unity, Unity VR, Unity3D game engine, University of Southern California, USC, virtual reality, VR, VR App, VR Kit
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Live Mapping… Underground 3D
by Fred Abler Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s quasi Alien’s prequel, is a visually brilliant movie. A team of earth archeologists, a geologist, and a vain android named ‘David’.. delve into deep space in the year 2089. Their mission is to find … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Architecture, GeoPorn, Holographic Technology, Tools, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3D, 3D Cave Mapping, Aliens, Android, Archeo Robots, Archeology, Archeorobot, Charlize Theron, David, GemStone, GeoSight, Geotechnical, Holographic UI, HoloTek, Indissoluble, Live Mapping, MINEi, Mining, Prometheus Movie, Scanning Sewers, SciFi, SciFi Technology, Spectragraph, Stopes, The Engineers, Weyland Industries
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Interactive 3D Sandbox – Kinect Hack
by Fred Abler It’s hard to recall how much fun we used to have in sandboxes as kids. It all came back to me this weekend while visiting Marc and his family in San Diego, CA. Marc’s son Raef is … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Augmented Reality, For Fun, Tools, Uncategorized, Virtual Reality
Tagged earth movers, earth science, excavating, hands on education, interactive exhibits., kinect hack, learn by doing, museum exhibits, National Science Foundation, raef, San Diego Zoo, sand box, sandbox, sandbox toys, topography, tractors, trucks, U.C. Davis, video, virtual sandboxes
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GIZA ARCHIVES
by Fred Abler The Egyptians were some pretty interesting people. The blue water-lilly of the Nile (blue lotus) can be used to induce sleep, and its psychoactive properties are also well known. The blue lotus appears throughout Egyptian iconography, suggesting … Continue reading
Posted in For Fun, History, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3D History, 3D immersion, Ancient Egypt, Boston MFA, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Capstone Controversy, Dassault Systems, Experiental Marketing, Giza Archives, Giza Egypt, Giza Plateau, Power Antennae, Pyramids, Sir W. Siemans, Tesla, virtual reality, WydenCliff
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