Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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APRIL 26, 2017

The pair left their secure jobs and turned to crowdfunding to kickstart the idea, raising $30,000 on Pozible in July 2014. By August 2014 the company had a 2,200 square foot system operating with two players in a completely tetherless freeform multiplayer environment complete with pistols.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Motion capture can find its roots in the art of rotoscoping, a technique developed in 1915 where animators trace over motion picture footage. Motion capture takes that to the next level by using different suits and tools to record the movement of subjects for use in various forms of media on 3D models.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you know her name, you are here since the early days, and you are also a bit naughty I’m happy to see her still around trying to innovate the XR space! (If you are new to VR, Ela Darling is a an adult actress that like in 2014–2015 tried to use Kinects to stream volumetric videos of cam girls in VR. News from partners (and friends).

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. Nathan has since open sourced the project, although the laboratory environment is only available in the executable demo for licensing reasons. Check out the source code at github.com/Zaeran/CAD-Demo. What’s the story behind your 3D CAD demo?

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Hand Capture. A new motion capture and animation plugin for Autodesk MotionBuilder 2016, Hand Capture lets you “capture hand and finger movement in real time directly inside MotionBuilder.” We learned how to use Unity, code in C#, design in Autodesk Maya, and use a Leap Motion sensor.

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