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One Step Closer To A Holodeck: Eon's ICube
GameSetWatch — Eon's ICube uses a combination of stereo projectors, stereoscopic glasses, motion tracking position trackers, and 3-6 walls that wrap scenes around their corners to give users the illusion of a "complete sense of presence" in a displayed virtual world. The system also supports peripherals like force feedback devices, a gesture dataglove, and a wireless wand that looks like a power drill or a Romulan disruptor. Multiple users can walk around the setup at the same time, provided they all have their own pair of glasses. Here's a recent video of IDEO Labs taking the ICube for a spin (and almost falling over while trying it ...

Best Thing I Saw Today #46: “Don’t Fall!”
chewing pixels — Most gamers will be skeptical of any claims that this kind of technology might change interactive entertainment in any meaningful way. After all, virtual reality has always been a term synonymous with grand but ultimately vacuous promise. But even if it is yet another a tech demo gimmick, the evidence that this test subject’s brain has been comprehensively fooled into believing it’s entered another world is fun to watch. Shame it’s a world from a crusty, five-year-old PC game but still, the potential for loading in Fallout 3’s Wasteland or GoW’s planet Sera is ...