Published on Sunday, April 5, 2009
Do you know WiiSpray?
WiiSpray Teaser from Martin Lihs on Vimeo.
WiiSpray started as a hack for the Wiimote, but turned out to be a rather serious project, coming to its second edition (several days ago, I agree, this news is not pure freshness). It's been carried out by two students from Bauhaus-University Weimar in Germany [...]
Published on Thursday, March 26, 2009
Two interesting articles about mobile 3D game development appeared lately on IntoMobile and TouchArcade.
They are somewhat summarizing the actual tendencies and development directions in the field, and also giving a nice set of examples illustrating the state of the art.
Roughly, two things are happening. Phones are becoming more and more capable of running real quake-likes [...]
Published on Saturday, March 21, 2009
Several days ago, at the IEEE-sponsored 2009 World Haptics Conference 2009, Phillips was supposed to present a study carried out using a haptic jacket!
Researches were up to describing the effects of touch on a movie viewers' emotional response to what the movie characters are experiencing. Practically, they would simulate the same tactile experience the character [...]