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Oculus’ New 360 Capture SDK Lets You Create and Share In-Game 360 Videos and Photos

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This hopefully also means we’re getting something Oculus promised as a feature back when Home was initially announced for the consumer Rift back in the summer of 2015: 360 video previews of games. “We solved the problem by rethinking the way 360 content is created,” writes Lee and Gupta.

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Apple Positions New iMac Pro for VR Development, Available Starting Thursday

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Apple may not hold the majority of the PC market, but among certain sectors its hardware and software are nearly industry standards. Apple is positioning the new iMac Pro—available this Thursday starting at a cool $5,000—as an ideal machine for VR content creators (both 360 video and real-time).

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Metaverse – Expectations vs Reality, Part 2: The Costs

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See Also: Metaverse and Investing - Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 2: Software and Infrastructure. Let’s take a virtual tour with a minimum number of 10 photos (360 photos), 3 videos (360 videos), and 10 hotspots (interactions) to be put only in the videos (therefore 30 total interactions).

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The Guru 360° is a Clever Portable Stabiliser for 360° Cameras

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Adding to the flexibility of the MOZA interchangeable gimbal system, the unit works with all lightweight 360-degree cameras with minimal obstruction to the field of view. Video stability is a major culprit, and 360 cameras exacerbate the problem of handheld capture severely.

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A Review of the FRAME Browser Collaboration Platform From VirBELA

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The rendering of the rooms themselves changes based on your hardware in a system that Baker calls “the responsive fidelity system.”. “We We detect what hardware you’re on and if we think your hardware can handle it, we throw you a higher quality environment,” Baker explained in an in-app interview last month.

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National Geographic Takes Users to Mt. Everest in New Instagram AR Experience

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AR has been on the horizon for quite some time but only now has become accessible to the masses with the Spark AR platform which exists within Instagram so it doesn’t require any additional hardware or software,” they answered in a statement. As you launch the AR interactive, your journey begins near the base of the mountain.

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Adobe Tech Could Give Cheap 360 Cameras 6 DOF Upgrades

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Virtual reality cameras have been hot hardware in the industry this past month and now Adobe is bringing innovative new software to the table as well. Earlier this week, Variety reported that Adobe’s head of Research Gavin Miller is claiming a new process for 360 video post-processing.

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