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VR Steampunk Opera ‘Miranda’ Is Visually Stunning But Needs Improvement

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Full-body motion capture offers a unique, but flawed live theater experience. Miranda features professional actors in motion capture suits performing on-stage in real-time. This could be incredibly discouraging to someone who is new to VR, potentially tarnishing their image of the technology as a whole.

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Interactive 360° LED Tower Reacts To Movement In Real-Time

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South Korea-based creative technology company Giantstep is no stranger to developing jaw-dropping visual productions. We love when clients lean into our expertise in technology and storytelling to create brand experiences that go beyond the traditional corporate video,” said Executive Creative Director Jichul Lee in an official release.

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‘Alien: Covenant in Utero’ Comes To Oculus Rift

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Inspired by a scene in the film, Fox teamed up with FoxNext VR Studio, RSA VR, MPC VR, Mach1 and technology partners AMD RADEON and DELL to bring the piece to life. Additionally, the motion capture work for the piece was done at the Technicolor Experience Center (TEC) right here in Los Angeles.

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Jaguar Lets You Feel Wimbledon With Andy Murray VR Experience

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The experience was developed in Unreal Engine, using 4D character scanning and a specialist array of 125 Digital SLR cameras to capture the hero tennis player and 24 other hero characters, and motion capture technology for animation.

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WellTown Is A VR Experience Built For An Entire City

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Lintott continues, “ We used city-wide data supplied by Wellington City Council to create the virtual Wellington City and then added a layer of story and gamification though utilising motion capture, CG, 360 interactive video and photogrammetry.”. Image Credit: WellingtonNZ.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.23): Facebook launches Horizon Workrooms, Intel announces its graphics cards, and more!

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A new interesting project has been published on Kickstarter: it is called Axis, and it is a system of sensors that you install on your body to have full-body tracking for gaming and motion capture. Watch this cool 360 video about playing the Star Wars theme! (A Some XR fun. A bit funny, a bit cool) Funny link.

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Supporting Creative Storytelling in VR

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This pool was finally narrowed to a group of 20 – no easy task according to Jeremy Silver, CEO of technology innovation centre Digital Catapult. Digital Catapult and Arts Council England just announced the shortlisted five projects that will receive a total of £350,000 in funding to develop immersive storytelling experiences.

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