XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Feelreal aromas are safe to inhale and are similar to those used in the food industry,” the company claims on their website. Feelreal is designed to fit Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PSVR, Oculus Go and Gear VR, and connects to the headset via Bluetooth or WiFi. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

What better way to celebrate the New Year than to recognise some of the work done by a few of the youngest members of the VR industry? Schwartz’s studio helped pave the way for room-scale VR by working on an early version of the HTC Vive before it was formally announced. Congrats to all those selected!

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2016

Not just because they dress cooler than the rest of us, which they all do, or that they avoid the inevitable drama of an adolescent industry getting too big for its britches, which they also do. A couple years later, they started experimenting with VR and 360 video to tell more impactful stories.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 28, 2017

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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have good content and roomscale capabilities, but they’re tethered and the resolution isn’t great. The target market happens to be industrial and enterprise clients (such as major car brands like BMW, which already is a paying customer) rather than gamers and everyday consumers.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The company calls it ‘Volume Tracer’ Light field cameras are typically hailed as the next necessary technology in bridging the gap between real-time rendered experiences and 360 video—two VR content types that for now act as bookends on the spectrum of immersive to less-than-immersive virtual media.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

It’s interesting to note that although Nintendo did not directly develop this virtual version of the 2005 arcade classic Mario Kart GP , it is an official remake and has Nintendo’s blessing… but the experience will be using the HTC Vive and not Nintendo hardware (will the Nintendo Switch soon be the first VR-compatible hardware from Nintendo???).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On the other hand, the firm collaborates with AV industry partners to power immersive spaces, large format displays, power walls, LED screens, and screen clusters. Moreover, according to the firm, end users from various sectors, such as education, AEC, energy, and healthcare, can leverage the product to optimise their workflows.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS. While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. Apple is updating their professional video editing application, Final Cut Pro X, to support 360 degree video editing.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. THE INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When he’s not hosting massive giveaways for his viewers (he recently gave away an HTC Vive ), he’s uploading VR highlights, previews, features and live-streams. When it comes to finding consistently captivating 360 video content, few rival the official New York Times channel. THE NEW YORK TIMES.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

The event is a chance for the 3D visuals company to focus on its support for the VR/AR industry and encourage creators to develop using its tools. Since releasing, Superhot has been given a juicy content update that makes a great game even better and has begun to tease support for other VR headsets like the HTC Vive.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2017

Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic to release a ridiculously intense 360-degree VR experience centered around the epic intergalactic battle. ” You can watch the 360° video below. The Nissan Rogue gets battle-tested in this new Star Wars-themed VR experience. .

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 14, 2017

It’s early days for the show so we don’t have a full line-up of what’s going to be there just yet, but you can expect a pretty good variety of projects across gaming, 360 video and more as well as talks from industry leaders. The last event had sessions from Google, Microsoft, HTC and more, for example.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

This week marks the arrival of one of the pivotal VR gaming experiences, EVE: Valkyrie , on HTC Vive. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. This application is essentially branded 360-videos for the Qantas airline. Get on that.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss VR used as legal evidence; President Obama stars in 360 video at Yosemite; Sliver TV brings 360 immersive views from traditional 2D games w/ $6.2M HTC SEDUCES DEVELOPERS TO VIVEPORT W/ $500K PRIZE. IN FUNDING.

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VRScout

JANUARY 25, 2018

In darker times, the best 360° videos we had access too were grainy, nauseating clips of GoPro stunts and claustrophobic concerts. But now everywhere you look, amazing creators are creating high quality VR videos our past selves could only dream of. They’re part of any successful industry. Let’s get lost.

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ARVR

JUNE 27, 2022

You can also film 360 degrees movies by yourself using any of the amateur spherical cameras. The most popular devices include currently: Meta Quest 2, Pico G2 / Neo3, HTC VIVE Focus and Flow (coming up as the glasses?—?size Being from the event management industry I thought VR is a perfect tool for business events and presentations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The revamped centre kicked off its operations with an open house hosting professionals, the media, partner firms, and clients from across the audiovisual industry. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The number of 360 video and VR studios is growing at an explosive rate. “We started our directory back in 2015, before HTC Vive and Oculus had even launched, with 99 studios as members. Rather, I find it’s about how the new immersive tools and technologies are affecting all the other industries. Virtual reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

The XR training market is rich with investment and interest, meaning potential industry partners must understand the keys to successfully integrating an XR training programme into existing operations. HTC VIVE is currently providing their devices for North Dakota Classrooms, and Meta recently gave thousands of Quests to Kentucky Schools.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 14, 2016

During the first day of VR On The Lot , a virtual reality industry conference at Paramount Pictures Studios, Sony Music unveiled a new VR experience from superstar Norwegian DJ Kygo. Set to the hit song “Carry Me,” this new music experience is a stunning look at what the future of music videos may look like.

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ARVR

JULY 6, 2020

Since around 2010 modern day VR has come out through the companies of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Sony Playstation VR. The ability to create 360 video has been around since around 2016 when users could attach a few GoPro’s together in a rig to capture pictures and video.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 29, 2016

The biggest challenge facing the emerging VR industry is showing the world VR,” said MetaVRse President, Dan Flatt. “VR MetaVRse has been onsite capturing immersive 360° video at Groove Cruise, Bestival, MuchMusic Video Awards, and more. Studies show that people remember VR experiences the same as real memories.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Fallon himself has been called the King of Social Media in the entertainment industry, and his influencer status has been a calling card of his career. FACEBOOK LAUNCHES LIVE 360 VIDEOS WITH NAT GEO. Content creators are challenged to build monetization models in the growing virtual reality industry. TV viewers, 12.6M

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The VR revolution is taking place just a little behind another major leap for the games industry; streaming. At the 2017 Game Developers Conference this week the company will showcase interactive streaming of a game inside the HTC Vive. Mixing the two together is a logical step, but Genvid Technologies is going one further.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

It’s available or in beta on most current headsets, including PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR and Google Cardboard. We decided to focus all of our effort in creating a platform the music industry could distribute their content and users could access their content,” he said. Nobody was in music.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Leading up to the short film’s debut, UploadVR interviewed Hassin about the project, its inspirations, and his views on the current immersive technology industry as a whole. Josh Hassin: Well for 360 video I would say, that the guys at Within (Chris Milk and Co) have been very inspiring.

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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

MAY 25, 2017

You’ll use your remote to pan around the 360 video on your flatscreen (which is, admittedly, nowhere near to the experience in a headset), but this will also support live 360 video– which will probably be pretty cool to watch content like live concerts or sporting events. INTEL TO LIVE STREAM THE PGA TOUR IN 360.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Where the first Connect back in 2014 was about introducing creators to early VR design and development concepts and pre-release hardware, this year’s conference looks to have gone and grown up, indicating the move from enthusiasts nice to a rapidly evolving industry. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

OTOY, a graphics-based software solution whose cloud-based light field streaming and hybrid rendering tech has been used in films like Fantastic Four and Spiderman 3 is one of the most well-funded companies in the mixed reality industry with $101M in funding and a $300M valuation. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive….

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

STRIVR has done a few PGA Tour 360 video fan experience deals, but nothing on the training side yet. Belch said current enterprise projects, some of which will be officially announced in early 2017, use mixed reality with CG and 360 video. Tennis Association and we’re looking at a few things,” Belch said.

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VRWorld

APRIL 11, 2017

With PowerDVD 17, their flagship movie and media player is bringing native support for 360 and 3D-360 video for VR headsets, Ultra HD Blu-ray video, as well as HDR10 format support. TrueTheater ® HDR – creates HDR video from standard dynamic range content for better viewing on HDR displays.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved.

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