Converting Radiohead’s HOUSE OF CARDS laser data to X3D

An updated and renamed version of the script can now be found on GoogleCode:

http://code.google.com/p/hoc-csv2x3d/

Here’s a little Python script for converting Radiohead’s 3D laser data into an X3D file. The script creates an animated X3D version of the video data, which can …

Fraunhofer IGD Multi-Touch Table

Two weeks ago a was given a demo of the new Fraunhofer IGD multi-touch table. Building these tables seems to be very popular these days and there are several DIY projects out on the web. I have thought about starting to build one for myself but soon got distracted by …

Using reacTIVision in the InstantPlayer X3D browser

This article describes how to use the reacTIVision tracking framework in combination with the InstantPlayer X3D browser. It provides a solution based on reacTIVisions MIDI output, representing each fiducial by a node in the X3D scenegraph. The Fiducial X3D prototype node offers fields for position, angle and state of a …

Experiments on Last.FM in X3D

I am a big fan of Last.fm and always wanted to play with their data feeds available at the Audioscrobbler WebService API. So I recently started to visualize some of the data in X3D. Currently there’s no defined goal for these experiments, I’m just trying to overcome …

instantplayer beta 1 released

The beta1 of my favourite X3D browser instantplayer was just released at www.instantreality.org.

The new release finally includes Linux packages for SuSE, Ubuntu and others. I succesfully used the SuSE rpm and installed it on a Gentoo system. For more details see the forum post.