Paris Games Week successfully plays the VR card
Big VR offensive at Paris Games Week 2015. A large third of the giant Sony stand was dedicated to Playstation VR, while HTC debuted Vive, in test mode, as a challenger to Oculus.
by Nicolas Barrial
DIY clay robot
Children are creative, but when they have nothing to build, they take things apart. Here are some robot-monsters tested by a workshop in Berlin to initiate the little ones to constructive tinkering.
Medium, the Oculus virtual sculpture workshop
Oculus reveals Medium, an application that allows you to sculpt in virtual reality, during the Oculus Connect conference, from the 23rd to the 25th of September in Hollywood.
Smart clothes go green
To open Fashion Tech Week in Paris, Wair and WearHacks start-ups organized a Greenathon on September 19-20 that combined fashion, tech and ecology.
After the connected object, Open Hybrid invents the hybrid object
Open Hybrid, developed by a design researcher at MIT, combines augmented reality with the Arduino micro controller. And allows you to design hybrid objects in open source.
The University of Tokyo invents a high-speed video projector
The University of Tokyo has just prototyped a device that addresses new modes of digital projection, such as projection mapping and augmented reality.
Holograms with a smartphone and an old CD case
Hold on to those old CD cases, they can project you into the future. Indeed, watch how to display an animated hologram using a smartphone and a Plexiglass pyramid.
A design lab revisits the game of life in architecture
The Spyropoulos Design Lab in London explores a “conscious” architecture driven by design and Arduinos according to behavioural patterns. An ecology serving man and city.
Little Devices, the medical DiY missionary lab
At Little Devices, an MIT lab dedicated to medical DiY, Anna Young, designer, imagines maker-compatible solutions to give power back to nursing staff. She was in Paris in June.
Do it Yourself with solidary bikes
Makery tested a handful of participatory and solidary bicycle repair workshops. These organizations are based on mutual aid and skill sharing in both dedicated and traveling spaces. Meet the bicycle as a vehicle of solidarity.
The cosplayer’s Do it Yourself
250,000 people participated in Japan Expo from the 2nd until the 5th of July in Paris. Makery interrogated the cosplayers on their costume fabrication methods.
An Australian makes his homemade satellite
Stuart McAndrew made a satellite without any spatial knowledge. OzQube-1 is a picosatellite that paves the maker’s way towards the stars.
Apérobot, the DiY robolution around a drink
Every month, the Caliban association organises Apérobots, DiY robotic meetings in a Parisian bar. Makery met Waldo there, a robot designed at the Electrolab.
Two Americans’ bike tour of European labs
Miriam Engle and Madison Worthy left Copenhagen on bicycles at the end of April to produce a documentary on European fablabs. They were at the Gennevilliers Faclab on June 19th.
How to prototype in virtual reality
La modélisation et le prototypage à l'aide d'un casque VR ne sont pas encore vraiment à portée de main. Makery a passé en revue les solutions plus ou moins immersives à disposition. Ever since “Minority Report” and “The Matrix”, computer manufacturers have been dreaming about it, but modeling and prototyping using a VR headset isn't quite here ye
Futur en Seine: “demo or die” in Paris
Prototypes paraded across Innovation Village at Futur en Seine 2015, Paris' all-digital festival, at Gaîté Lyrique from June 11 to 14.
Oculus looks for the wave of the E3 trade fair and reaps a small breeze
Prior to E3, the largest video game trade show in the world, in LA from 16th - 19th of June, Oculus pulls out all the stops to seduce gamers…and announces a partnership with Microsoft.
SenseCube prototypes for solidary start-ups
Makery visited SenseCube in Paris, one of the rare incubators specialized in start-up projects for solidarity.
Lab’Surd, as close as you get to the impossible
Passing objects transform virtual reality into “surrealism” in “Lab’Surd”, installation of the researcher artist Judith Guez.
Pallet it Yourself under cover of the peach walls
Furniture made of reusable pallets is the workshop proposed by the green warriors of UpCycly in Montreuil, as part of the peach wall Festival on May 24th. Makery was there.