Taodyne at ISE Amsterdam

Article dans Nice Matin

Un court article de présentation de Taodyne dans Nice Matin ce mardi:

Encore un peu de patience, notre nouveau site Internet sera bientôt prêt!

Taodyne has moved

We have moved. We are now at the World Trade Center in Sophia Antipolis.
The precise address is:

Building entrance

1300 route des Crêtes
Entrée I
06560, Sophia Antipolis 

The new buildings gives us a very nice showroom where we can demonstrate our software, but also hardware from various partners, including:

•  3D displays from Alioscopy and Philips/Dimenco,
• 3D TVs and projectors, with both active and passive glasses,
• Devices to interact with a 3D presentation system from TizzyWorld or LM3Labs.

Division of labor

Of course, installing everything was a lot of effort. We put our values to the test, with a stringent division of labor and strict equality between men and women, as you can see on the picture left.

Many many thanks to Claire, Catherine, Baptiste and Jérôme for their work. And we invite all of you to visit us and see what we have to offer.

Season's Greetings

Taodyne wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Modernizing the magic of LaTeX

A recent post by Valetta Ventures talks about how hard it is to port LaTeX to the iPad. Basically, the problem is that the code base is old and messy, part of it is written in old programming languages like WEB that need to be transliterated to C, and so on. I think they would stand a much better chance if they tried starting, say, with TeXmacs. I wrote to them about it.

But I think there is a more fundamental issue with trying to move LaTeX forward: while its rendering quality is second to none, it only creates static documents, it cannot integrate graphics, animations, or any kind of modern contents. Ever thought of integrating web page in a LaTex document?

Part of what we are trying to do with Tao Presentations is to capture the original magic of LaTeX, but in a more modern fashion. Below is a very short demo, here is the source code if you are curious.

If you want to hear more about this, please visit us at IC3D in Liege in december. We will be talking a bit about what we are doing with Tao, the programming language, and we hope to demonstrate the first baby steps of Tao, the user interface.

In the meantime, please take a look at our latest demo, YouCube, showing 6 YouTube videos on an interactive cube with sound synchronization.

What's coming up in the world of image sensors?

Dr Eric Fossum, one of the minds behind CMOS sensors, pre-annonced interesting work on a time-of-flight sensor. Would that mean real 3D from cheap sensors?

Livre blanc sur la stéréoscopie

Le pôle ICI vient de publier un très intéressant livre blanc sur la stéréoscopie. Bien entendu, mon seul regret est que ce livre blanc ne fasse mention que des applications de type cinéma ou télévision des technologies 3D.