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Augment Reality with SenseGraphics software H3DAPI

johan — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:31:58 +0000

Just got this TEDx-talk youtubevideo from a H3DAPI user in Australia, showing some of the possibilities that comes with SenseGraphics H3DAPI. Jump 10 minutes into the video to see the great live demo being performed during the talk or get the whole story told about how to combine vision and touch in the very same virtual (and real, ehhh…?) environment.

More about the speaker and their research at Magic Vision Lab in Australia: http://www.magicvisionlab.com/index.html

SenseGraphics playing force enabled games in real 3D stereo

johan — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:51:43 +0000

As being part of the Stockholm Visualisation Center (www.vic-sthlm.se) SenseGraphics had the pleasure of joining the Royal Institute of Technology booth at the GAMEX exhibition in Stockholm during the weekend.

The GAMEX conference is targeting the consumer gaming market and this was the first year the event took place in Kista Fair, not far from SenseGraphics office. The exhibition was a huge success, expectations before the event was to gather 25 000 visitors during the 4 day event but only on Saturday more than 10000 visitors showed up!!!

SenseGraphics brought the Core Skills Trainer (www.CoreSkillsTrainer.com) to the event, a great tool for learning what haptics is and what haptics can do to for the user experience. For the more hard core gamers our ASUS 3D Laptop loaded with Half Life 2 Episode 1, combined with haptics from Novint got even more attention! The use of real 3D stereo was actually quite common at the exhibition but we were the only one showing 3D stereo together with haptics in a real cool game.

SenseGraphics moves into the next phase of evaluating eyetracking in fully immersive, touch enabled environments.

johan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:49:51 +0000

SenseGraphics has successfully proven eye tracking from Tobii to be a possible part of SenseGraphics Display solutions. A working prototype, integrating 3D projection technology with DepthQ Polarization Modulator and Tobii eye tracker, has been developed during a thesis project together with Linköping University. All components are now in place for taking this prototype to another level with the software integration of H3DAPI in a new master thesis project to start very soon.

Using eye tracking with SenseGraphics Display systems and H3DAPI would bring to the researcher a unique tool for analyzing user attention, motoric skills and the influence of haptics in real 3D stereo, multi-sensory environments.

SenseGraphics riding the wave of 3D stereo in Tokyo

johan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:24:23 +0000

Almost everything is about real 3D stereo at the 3D&VR 2010 forum in Tokyo. Sony, JVC, LG and Panasonic are some of the BIG players showing their new products for the 3DTV and VR market.

Being present at the Nihon Binary exhibition booth we have been able to attract hundreds of visitors to the SenseGraphics Display 300, featuring not only 3D stereo but also haptics. The user can feel the 3D objects where the graphics are represented and for sure this is a “waow” experience for first time users…

Media has been here and broad casting (live) from our booth. Hopefully we’re able to link to some of the coverage soon.

For your eyes only…

johan — Fri, 28 May 2010 06:30:11 +0000

We have just started a thesis project to investigate the possibility to integrate Tobii eye tracking technology with SenseGraphics H3DAPI and SenseGraphics Display solutions. Tobii, a company in Sweden, has been very successful in bringing their eye tracking products to the market, not only for assistive and research use but also in outstanding eye-tracking solutions for market research and usability studies/analysis. In just a couple of years they’ve grown from a small start-up to a company employing well over 200 people, all over the world!

The Tobii eye tracking technology has some advantages to competitors solutions; fully automatic eye tracking, very high accuracy with the ability to track nearly all people with good tolerances on head motions.

The thesis work includes hardware integration of eye tracking for use in SenseGraphics “immersive workbench” solutions. As we are using real stereo 3D in our setups, there is a great challenge to overcome the problem of 3D glasses blocking lights. Tobii is using advanced image processing of a person’s face and eyes and reflections in the eyes of infrared reference lights to estimate eye position and precise “gaze target”. The thesis project will investigate some possible solutions and hopefully we’re able to present a working prototype later this year…!?

The combination of eye tracking and use of haptics in real 3D stereo interactive environments would allow for some very interesting research possibilities in for example neuroscience. Hopefully our H3DAPI users will “soon” gain access to users gaze and eye position data for further research application development in SenseGraphics Display solutions…

SenseGraphics introduces the HapticWall

johan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:57:51 +0000

We have recently seen loads of new 3D visualisation technologies hitting the market, more affordable and easier to use then ever! SenseGraphics has to put together a nice package that includes everything you will need to get your work started using SenseGraphics H3DAPI, SensAble haptics and real 3D stereo visualisation.

Featuring a 30-40 inch rear projected, high quality screen and a 120 Hz short throw projector together with active shutter glasses this is the ideal entry-level solution to real 3D stereo visualisation and haptics programming. With H3DAPI you will be able to feel what you see, interact in your 3D sceene, using the included SensAble Omni haptics device.

Please let us know if you’re interested in this solution by sending us an email: info@sensegraphics.com!