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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Especially when you have digital technology groups such as Play Lab dedicated to bringing technology into younger and younger classrooms. 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).

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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

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. Their facial tracking modification technology eventually enabled the popular “Lenses” feature.

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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. NO PROBLEM.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

This is an interesting mix of tradition and technology. It’s interesting to read about the many different technologies that Qualcomm makes available to OEMs and how this open ecosystem compares to the closed Apple’s one. The survey takes about 15 minutes and covers VR, AR, and mixed reality sectors.

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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

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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VRScout

JULY 31, 2016

SIGGRAPH 2016 is all packed up and out of Dodge (Anaheim), and what was perhaps the most striking note about this year’s show was how much presence immersive technologies had; VR, AR (collectively known as “mixed reality”, or MR) and ancillary related tech were nearly everywhere you turned.

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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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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

MARCH 16, 2020

The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Pixvana recently announced SPIN, cloud based platform for VR publishing and streaming along with innovative field-of-view adaptive streaming (FOVAS) technology that will be released as an open standard to increase video quality and reduce bandwidth for stereoscopic 360-degree video. appeared first on VR World.

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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. VRScout (@VRScout) June 19, 2018.

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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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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.” ” It featured 15 VR experiences and another dozen artists exploring death and grieving using immersive technologies. Virtual reality (VR). Pearl by Google Spotlight Stories Lab.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

There are both 360 video experiences and interactive CGI ones. Don’t misunderstand me: Carmack is a genius and whatever thing he says is interesting, but when in this video he speaks about VR, he mostly says things that we already know. My review of Google Hand tracking library. But it is able to shoot 3K 360 videos.

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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

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. 12pm: Ivan Varko, VR video streaming (Slovenia) 12 pm?—?12.30 News worth a mention. Image by Neos). Discover more. Some XR fun.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Virtual Reality is a medium, or a media technology. As a medium of expression, it is comparable to video, which it surpasses with its third spatial dimension. There is a spectrum of relationships between the consensus reality we commonly share and various synthetic ‘realities.’ I am a loving critic.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Its technology tries to analyze the electrical impulse in your arm to try to understand what you want to do with your fingers. South-Africa startup Eden Labs has created an interesting design for VR headsets needed in public installations to show 360 videos. Google announces The Relightables. I would be very thankful!

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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. Or so I thought. They launched it just over a week ago, aiming to raise $30,000 toward development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Rori DuBoff, Managing Director and Head of Content Innovation and Strategy for Extended Reality — that’s VR, AR and MR — at Accenture Interactive. So Accenture is a very large technology and strategy company with over 400,000 employees worldwide. Rori: Sure. Rori: Yeah, absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Rori DuBoff, Managing Director and Head of Content Innovation and Strategy for Extended Reality — that’s VR, AR and MR — at Accenture Interactive. So Accenture is a very large technology and strategy company with over 400,000 employees worldwide. Rori: Sure. Rori: Yeah, absolutely.

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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). billion in 2014.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So we focused on the emerging consumer landscape and the emerging technology landscape, and make sure that the KT brand continues to be relevant not only today, but five or ten years from now. So we are focusing on looking at new business models and emerging technologies, then tying those to our strategy businesses.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So we focused on the emerging consumer landscape and the emerging technology landscape, and make sure that the KT brand continues to be relevant not only today, but five or ten years from now. So we are focusing on looking at new business models and emerging technologies, then tying those to our strategy businesses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! This means that you can shoot 30FPS videos and then have fluid ones as output!

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So we focused on the emerging consumer landscape and the emerging technology landscape, and make sure that the KT brand continues to be relevant not only today, but five or ten years from now. So we are focusing on looking at new business models and emerging technologies, then tying those to our strategy businesses.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. This new standard evolves the previous H265 compression format for videos, reducing data requirement up to 50% while providing visually the same quality. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Then you put it on and in augmented reality you configure your play area. Skybox VR Video Player, Source Technology Inc 41. Tilt Brush, Google 47. The target of Oculus Quest is the casual gamer that has an attention to innovation. Setting the Oculus Quest up is a true pleasure. After this, you are ready to play!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Google releases Chrome 81. A relaxing video in VR.

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