JVRC 2011 WOW-Factor competition
Do you think your demo has the "WOW-factor"?
We are launching the "WOW-factor" competition. This is open to everyone - individuals, organisations, researchers, developers, academics, commercial - who feel that their demo will make people say "Wow! That's cool!".
Wow-factor entries
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A Novel Framework for Closed-Loop Robotic Motion Simulation
Paolo Robuffo-Giardo et al (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
http://www.cyberneum.de/f1/
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Liquid Interface: A ferrofluid-based, Organic User Interface
Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh, Kasun Karunanayaka and Adrian David Cheok (Keio-NUS CUTE Center, National University of Singpaore)
http://youtu.be/V5EMyRsLLeQ
http://youtu.be/WtA7HpuibQ
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re-lion Small Unit Immersive Trainer (SUIT) - A multi-user virtual reality system for use in military, law-enforcement and civilian applications.
Chris Haarmeijer (Re-Lion, Netherlands).
http://www.vimeo.com/25032061
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Cospatial Join-In - A Shared Active Surface (SAS) application that has been designed to encourage children with autism to collaborate in different ways. Join-In exploits the DiamondTouch ability to distinguish between different users.
Laura Boffi (FBK, Italy), Eynat Gal (University of Haifa, Israel), Leonardo Giusti (FBK, Italy), Sigal Eden (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Sara Traversari (FBK, Italy), Patrice (Tamar) Weiss (University of Haifa, Israel) and Massimo Zancanaro (FBK, Italy).
http://vimeo.com/21600852
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Lightweight Palm and Finger Tracking for Real-Time 3D Gesture Control
Georg Hackenberg, Rod McCall, Wolfgang Broll (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
http://3dmt.georg-hackenberg.de/
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MiddleVR: a new VR plugin
Sébastien Kuntz (i'm in VR, France)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu930M0JlA
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The WOW-factor committee will decide which demos will be posted onto the website. The submissions will be posted on this page as soon as they have been approved. It will remain there until the conference. The committee will shortlist the submissions and these will be viewed at JVRC2011 in Nottingham. The conference attendees will vote the winning submission. Good luck!
Submission guidelines
Email your entries to jvrc2011_demo@jvrc2011.org with the subject "WOW-factor competition". The e-mail must include:
Please ensure that you have all of the necessary permission to submit the demo. JVRC2011 are not responsible for the links posted.