Shiny Things - February 3rd, 2008

09:03 am - Second Life Ergonomics

bushi7 sent me a link to these articles about ergonomics for Second Life avatars. I thought they were fascinating: it's one thing to remember to make things easy for people to use, but virtual people have different needs. I'm sure much of this same advice applies to all virtual 3D environments.

• Part 1
• Part 2

09:55 am - Head-Tracking VR

Johnny Chung Lee, using a Wii remote and sensor bar, demonstrates a VR system that changes the perspective of your display as you change your viewpoint. Very, very shiny.

I found this on the Etre blog. I'm going to stop linking to things from the Etre blog, because you should be reading it yourself. It's that nifty. Here's the RSS feed. Now you have no excuse.