Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2016

On October 4th, Google revealed Daydream View, which is their reference design for their mobile VR headset. Google CEO Sandar Pichai also announced the first Daydream-ready phone designed called Pixel, which also has native hardware support for their artificial intelligent Google Assistant technology. Support Voices of VR.

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Cats and VR

MAY 4, 2016

I recently had a chance to watch the hella dope Run The Jewels 360° video in a Viewmaster headset while using a SubPac device. Here is my 360° video Demo and interview with SubPac. The startup has attracted major investors and industry leaders who have joined forces to engineer this unprecedented sound movement.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Today, the majority of people try VR for the first time on a Samsung Gear or Google Cardboard and, more than likely, they watch a 360-degree video. That’s a shame really, because most 360 video experiences are terrible, especially when streamed over the Internet. The SPIN Player demo consists of several 360 videos.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

Google is working on ways to create the most realistic sense of presence while in VR. To help with that, Google has been experimenting with light fields to show how VR can come as close as possible to what you’d actually see if you were there. Download the demo for free and check it out for yourself. Image Credit: Google VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2017

We talked about how he sees Chinese investors could be shifting focus to AI and local Chinese companies, the market challenges for educational VR companies, and why he thinks that the lack of revenue in the 360 video could bring a reckoning moment for 360 video technology and content companies.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You might have thought you were too cool for this demo that comes pre-installed on the Quest 2, but you might learn something. Some of the experiences are 360 video, while others are full VR. See Also: VR vs. 360-Degree Video: What’s the Difference? First Steps (Quest 2). Wander (Quest).

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2017

Volumetric video is far more immersive than the 360 video footage you can readily find today, because the perspective isn’t locked into one static location. Tran tells me that the company also plans to support volumetric video playback via Google’s ARCore.

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2016

Ximmerse’s Emma Chen demos the X-Hawk and X-Cobra products at SIGGRAPH. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

I have instead tried another demo for Oculus Quest called Anamika, where you impersonate a four-armed Indian goddess. There was an action video of the robot mafia that killed the family of a good robot and it was quite creepy actually. Another demo was more relaxing, and showed an interior design environment, with very high quality.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2016

The Jaunt ONE features 24 global shutter sensors and the setup can be coupled with 360° ambisonic audio recording, which in post can be mixed with Dolby ATMOS. Once the experience is finalized, creators have immediate access to all of the assets necessary to publish to any platform that supports 360° video, including the Jaunt VR App.

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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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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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Cats and VR

JUNE 19, 2016

I recently had a chance to watch the hella dope Run The Jewels 360° video in a Viewmaster headset while using a SubPac device. Here is my 360° video Demo and interview with SubPac. I feel it's the addition of accessories like SubPac that will make VR a real fully immersive experience that will keep you coming back.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2017

OSSIC debuted their latest OSSIC X headphone prototype at CES this year with one of the best immersive audio demos that I’ve heard yet. OSSIC produced an interactive audio demo using Unity that is able to produce audio in the near-field of less than 1 meter distance.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard? In related news, the consumer version of the HTC Vive is now promised to be shipped within 72 hours of ordering as well as additional retail availability and demo locations.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I’ve been pining for a HoloLens ever since I demoed it a few weeks ago. 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.

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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. teased some months ago.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Developed by ILMxLAB , Trials on Tatooine is sort of like the Bullet Train of the Star Wars universe – an amazing tech demo that may lead to a larger experience down the line. Rogue One: Recon – A Star Wars 360 Experience. In fact, they even gave away Star Wars branded Cardboard devices back when this experience launched.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

I was among a handful of journalists invited to see the internal Microsoft prototype, though I was told photos or videos for my demo would not be allowed. It’s an important feature that makes getting in and out of VR a lot easier, and one Facebook and Google would love to match. This is something we’ve lost in the Vive and Rift.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 17, 2017

About: 360 Labs is a Portland, Oregon based production company specialized in 360º videos, virtual tours, custom Google Street View, and VR experiences. 360 Labs was officially founded in May of 2014. When another surge of VR popularity arose, they naturally became inclined to produce more content with 360 videos.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Daydream. Ultimately, you get what you pay for. Check out our article for what comes next.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Tilt Brush, Google 47. When you will buy the headset, you will have installed the free demos of: Beat Saber Journey of The Gods Space Pirate Trainer Creed: Rise to Glory Sports Scramble. Notice that these will be demos and not free games: for Beat Saber, for instance, you will have two songs for free. Thumper, Drool 46.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Daydream. Ultimately, you get what you pay for. Check out our article for what comes next.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Today, Google finally pulled the curtain back on its mysterious virtual reality headset: Daydream View. Since its announcement at Google I/O earlier in the year, Daydream has been positioned as a potential usurper to the mobile VR throne currently occupied by Samsung and Oculus with Gear VR. ” Comfort & Fit. The Remote.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A teaser of the Stereoscopic 360 VR novel; Dirrogate: Memories with Maya. Available on Google Cardboard. This is a just a small demo of what iClone can do! Reallusion's iClone VR 360 video content creation pipeline is a fast and intuitive way to create and animate VR experiences. Reallusion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

So we would require many public demos about it… but well, there is a pandemic and so people can go out less, and even if they go out, it’s not safe wearing the headset that others have worn in a demo booth. But we all know that this is not enough: VR must be tried to be understood (and sold).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Around 40 days ago, I reported to you the news of Google presenting at SIGGRAPH 2020 a new algorithm for recording, encoding, and decoding 6DOF VR videos , that is movies inside which you can physically move. Today I managed to try its demo , so let me tell you how is it cool being able to move inside a video!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Image by Acer).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you Google “Lockheed Martin Hololens”, there’s a picture of some people wearing a Hololens in a NASA shuttle training simulator, and she’s there in the picture. Kathryn: Yeah, it’s gonna to be a great event, and it’s gonna be lots of demos on the floor, big speakers in the room. Oh my goodness.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

” They’ve got over 200 titles on this list, with prices, and the links take you directly to the Google Play downloads. Google Daydream app store. For iOS apps, it’s easier to do a Google search instead, such as “ rollercoaster ios vr app.” It also has a list of over 1,000 VR videos.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you Google “Lockheed Martin Hololens”, there’s a picture of some people wearing a Hololens in a NASA shuttle training simulator, and she’s there in the picture. Kathryn: Yeah, it’s gonna to be a great event, and it’s gonna be lots of demos on the floor, big speakers in the room. Oh my goodness.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

You know how federal agencies and corporations (Google, Facebook, Amazon, et al) can surveil you with impunity and track your habits? Tools, Solutions, & Demos. To be in one of Realtra’s demos is the dream of VR. In one demo, I stood along a cliff wall next to a climber catching his breath. Dashwood Solutions.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. The last date to submit your 360 video films is September 27, 2016. The festival admits content ranging from feature length to shorts, and including interactive, augmented reality, and virtual reality projects.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Not only for VR, like 360 video, but also AR, and also other contents too. Teppei: Yeah, YBVR or first the streaming optimization technology for 360 video. Alan: Yeah, they make fun demos.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Not only for VR, like 360 video, but also AR, and also other contents too. Teppei: Yeah, YBVR or first the streaming optimization technology for 360 video. Alan: Yeah, they make fun demos.

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