Usability Quote of the Day

February 3, 2012

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. -- Paul Rand    (via interaction-design.org)

Thursday, September 22, 2005

VirtuSphere Immersive Virtual Reality

A platform for new User Experience and User Interface Design concepts ...

"VirtuSphere provides a mechnical basis for truly immersive virtual reality environments, permitting the user to move about in virtual space by simply walking.

The device consists of a large hollow sphere which is mounted on a specially designed platform that allows the sphere to rotate freely as the user walks in any direction. The user wears a head-mounted display, which provides the virtual environment. Sensors under the sphere provide subject speed and direction to the computer running the simulation. Users can even ineract with objects in virtual space using a special manipulator."   continued ...   (Via Technovelgy)

VirtuSphere - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

VirtuSphere.

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