VRScout

APRIL 8, 2017

Skidmore College is giving their accepted candidates letter a huge makeover by using an immersive 360VR video as part of the congratulatory acceptance letter. ” This isn’t the first time a college or university has used 360 video to engage students.

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VRScout

JUNE 27, 2017

YouTube tells you where people are looking in your 360 videos AND embraces 180 degree video, Google’s 180 degree camera, the Meta-Cookie project gets weird and alters your taste, and Intel leans into sports in a big virtual way…. It turns out that 75% of people watch only the front 90% of 360 videos.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Augmented Reality Gets Its First Smartphone-Powered Headset and a BIG Partnership Between Hollywood-Backed Giants.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2017

Now the company has adapted their system for Apple’s ARKit, showing how phone-based augmented reality can be used to view volumetric footage, and allow users to step through a portal into the footage. Tran tells me that the company also plans to support volumetric video playback via Google’s ARCore.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

SI revamps Swimsuit issue with 360° videos, a custom Snapchat Lens, and more. The immersive supplement also lets you step behind the cameras for a revealing look into the making of this year’s Swimsuit edition with several 360° behind-the-scene videos. It’s that time of year again.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. GOOGLE EARTH IN VR IS A RUSH. Made from high-res satellite imagery, aerial photography, and Street View data, Google Earth VR is surprisingly meditative when alone and fun when with a group.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2017

AUGMENTED MAGAZINE COVERS…IS THIS GOING TO BE A THING? Augmented reality that makes graphics on t-shirts, posters, album covers, etc., Millions of people have lens implants as solutions to help cataracts—but Omega Ophthalmics wants to make contact lens implants work as augmented reality devices.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 29, 2016

MetaVRse offers a wide range of experiential marketing and event production, content production and consulting services to brands interested in harnessing the incredible power of virtual and augmented reality technologies. VR is already the most powerful and engaging platform for entertainment, gaming and branded content.”.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

A Samsung Gear 360 camera captures the scene in 360-degrees which kids can then explore using a Google Cardboard headset that they also get to customize (and obviously keep). Participating children design and draw their own 3D environment and then fill their new world with hand-molded clay sculptures.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, Google makes music for Daydream, using AR to solve crimes, downgraded headset sales projections, prepping human head transplant for reality w/ VR, see your unborn child w/ VR, funding wrapup, and more… Special thanks to featured guest Jesse Damiani of VRScout.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

FACEBOOK LAUNCHES LIVE 360 VIDEOS WITH NAT GEO. Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. …and more… CYCLISTS & TRIATHLETES SPORT AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 6, 2018

Metaverse is the book written by the journalist and futurist Charlie Fink to explain the current status of virtual and augmented reality. If you don’t know who Charlie Fink is, well, open Google and start looking for some of his online posts. Metaverse is a book that never ends to be written.

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2016

The Google Tango-enabled Lenovo Phab 2 Pro smartphone. The Phab 2 Pro is the first consumer-ready smartphone featuring Tango, Google’s long-awaited augmented reality platform. InstaVR’s value proposition is simple: it’s a SaaS for businesses with real-world venues to allow for consumers to view 360˚ videos of the venue.

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VRScout

AUGUST 27, 2017

Merge was the first company to make a mobile VR app—and the choice to make the app future-compatible with Google proved fortuitous; the eventual launch of Google Cardboard shook up the industry and helped make VR more accessible to many different markets, including children. Kids can also explore 360 Video s and 3D Models.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2019

Popular VR videos streaming service VeeR is planning to enter the LBVR sector with an all-in-one VR video installation. It is experimenting with a chair that will let people spend their time watching 360 videos. Me while trying the VR video chair. I think that it may be an interesting solution for 360 videos.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS. RIDE A VIRTUAL WATERSLIDE WITHOUT GETTING WET AT TOPSHOP. Apparently the $1.4B

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Things do not go better for Gear VR’s competitor Daydream View : at the recent launch of the Pixel 3, there has been no mention of virtual reality… and Google has just stated that Pixel 3 is Daydream compatible (with the old model of Daydream view, of course) when journalists asked the question after the event.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2017

Facebook launches a dedicated 360 photo and video player , while teasing those of us in America with the prospect of live streaming our Gear VR games to Facebook. Facebook 360 is currently available on Gear VR, acting as a destination for the 1M+ 360 videos and 25M+ 360 photos that have been uploaded to the social media giant.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

On October 28-31, there was a virtual & augmented reality art show in San Francisco called “The Art of Dying.” Here’s a 360 video of my Crossover experience that was featured in The Art of Dying: Here is a list of artists participating in The Art of Dying show. Virtual reality (VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

InVR is another nice company making 360 videos and volumetric videos. They showcased a series of 360 videos shot by them and that could be enjoyed through an Oculus Go. So, for instance, there was a painting of a market, and they shot 360 videos of a wholesale market where there were fish and other kinds of food.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 26, 2018

To complement the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce “Distorted Reality,” a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOs.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The Alternate Realities Talent Market is the place for those wishing to build partnerships with organisations which are keen to use modern digital tech for new storytelling purposes. Successful applicants will then be connected with funding bodies, NGOs, broadcasters, international festivals, galleries, and production companies.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

There are both 360 video experiences and interactive CGI ones. More info (Interview video) More info (UploadVR’s selection of most interesting XR things) More info (John Carmack on augmented reality) More info (John Carmack on LBVR multiplayer SDK). My review of Google Hand tracking library.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Pesquet will also be sending down some 360 videos he’s been taking on the ISS since arriving there in November. London-based augmented reality company Zappar has announced a $3.75M Series A funding round, led by investment house Hargreave Hale and participation from trade investors You & Mr. Jones and iDreamSky from China.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 6, 2018

These projects have all graduated from the CreativeXR programme, which was created to encourage content makers to explore creative storytelling in immersive mediums such as Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Click To Tweet. Completed with support from Other Set and the RAF Museum.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This AR glass is one of the most interesting augmented reality devices on the market, and I’m a bit envious that my Japanese friends can already buy it. Google releases the Objectron dataset. In the communication, it is emphasized that it is able to work with 5G phones from different brands like Sony and Samsung. Image by Neos).

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RealVision VR

JUNE 26, 2018

RealVision’s work in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Stereo 3D. The incubator developed best practices – including custom rain proof Stereoscopic camera solutions to capture true video VR (Stereoscopic 360 video) while keeping robustness and in-the-field battle tested gear.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

There is a spectrum of relationships between the consensus reality we commonly share and various synthetic ‘realities.’ What is often called ‘Augmented Reality,’ or AR, is just a bit of synthetic stuff laid on top of the world we’re used to, like, Pokemon Go. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

ZapBox – a Kickstarter-funded project from UK start-up Zappar – is proposing to leapfrog Microsoft (and everyone else) by making a MR equivalent of Google Cardboard for a hundredth of the HoloLens cost – a mere $30. Tagged with: mixed reality , ZapBox , Zappar. Or so I thought.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

South-Africa startup Eden Labs has created an interesting design for VR headsets needed in public installations to show 360 videos. It is a VR HMD based on the Skyworth S1 that features a handle, so that users can take the handle, push the headset to the face and enjoy the 360 content without the need of completely wearing it.

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Infinityleap

MAY 11, 2016

The best of those photos will be collected in a section of the Oculus 360 Photos app, which you’ll be able to explore from your headset. 360 video is already supported in a similar way, but photos are dramatically easier to create, and should catch on more quickly. Photo credit: Facebook). Photo credit: Samsung).

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And extended reality is the term that we are using at Accenture, and I think across the industry others are also using this term “XR” to include virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D experiences; all different types of experiences that blend the digital and physical worlds, and work on extending your reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And extended reality is the term that we are using at Accenture, and I think across the industry others are also using this term “XR” to include virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D experiences; all different types of experiences that blend the digital and physical worlds, and work on extending your reality.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Also we found out more about New and expanded partnerships with leaders in software, platforms, and hardware to better serve and scale the growing community of Unity creators worldwide including Facebook’s new dedicated PC gaming platform, Google Daydream, the upcoming Nintendo Switch and Unity powering Super Mario Brothers Run on iOS/Android.

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