Monday, July 26, 2010

Heads-up Virtual Reality (HUVR) Combines 3D Visuals


This is a mission going on at the University of California, San Diego. They name it the Heads-Up Virtual Reality device, or HUVR (pronounced like the word “hover”). I call it awesome.

HUVR “couples a customer 3D HDTV board with a half-silvered mirror to mission any graphic image onto the user’s hands and/or into the space surrounding them”. Apparently, the user’s head is tracked in arrange to get the right standpoint, and there is a haptic criticism device on hand for treatment. I noticed that their haptic device looks a lot like a Novint Falcon, which I believe was designed for 3D gaming.

I have a video of this after the jump if you want to see this in action. Personally, I think that the possibilities for this technology are limitless. For example, medical researchers can use this for 3D manipulation of brainscans from an MRI. Archaeologists can use this handle an artifact that is too precious to be handled with the hands-on approach.

Best of all, this technology has come relatively cheap. It uses a $2,300 Samsung 3D TV and a heads up virtual reality system that costs $7,000. I look forward to the day when it costs as much as a desktop computer. I can totally see desktop and possibly even laptop computers being like this.



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