Techno Babble

Leonar3Do is an interactive desktop VR system that consists of a spatial input device with 6 degrees of freedom, 3D glasses and monitor mounted sensors.

With Leonar3Do, you are able to control how you move within space – you can create and pull objects out from the monitor with the cursor.

To enjoy the benefits of virtual reality with Leonar3Do, you really only need desktop space for the palm-sized control box, a few cables and connectors. Beyond that you need some extra space for the glasses and the bird to put them down when they are out of use. That’s all.

More details at

http://leonar3do.com/

Other videos can be found from user 3DForAll on YouTube at

http://www.youtube.com/user/3DforAll

Canon’s MR technology uses a head-mounted display (HMD) and shows CAD (computer-aided design) data in a real space.

There’s also an interesting article about the system at

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20100204/179912/)

Instant Scene Modeler (iSM) uses a pair of cameras to observe a scene. Each camera is looking at the scene from a slightly different angle and iSM can measure distances to thousands of points in each scene. When the cameras move. iSM will match new images, compute the camera motion and generate a model from the calculated 3D Data.

More details at
http://sm.mdacorporation.com/what_we_do/ism.html

Also noted an interesting article in Desktop Engineering discussing Virtual Prototyping. Read it at
http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaaapn.htm