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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Arcturus’ solution includes over 100 cameras working simultaneously to capture a still or moving object.

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Here Come The Holograms

VRScout

Screen capture of prototype Star Wars AR game for Disney’s Lucasfilm/Lenovo AR headset. As the video below shows, a cinematically real, 3D George Takei is not something that can be made casually. Last June, I met Pete Forde of Itsme at VR Toronto, where he did a realistic 3D capture of me, and then animated it.

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Top XR Stories of 2019

Tech Trends VR

The project involved a week of filming, during which Glauben was captured answering over 1,000 questions by 18 cameras placed at 9 different angles. The experience will use 3D capture technology, which scans participants as they enter a location-based VR venue so that friends can see each other as holograms and work collaboratively.

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Avatar Technology From USC Captures Your Body In 20 Minutes

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Easy 3D Avatars. The graphics lab at ICT captures high-quality digital faces for film with special (and expensive) scanning equipment. The research group started testing with Microsoft’s Kinect four years ago, doing some body scanning and facial scanning. “What other elements of us need to be embedded?

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Volumetrically Capturing Authentic Digital Actors, with Metastage’s Christina Heller

XR for Business Podcast

Metastage is an XR studio that puts real performances into AR and VR through volumetric capture. Metastage is the first US partner for the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Software, and their soundstage is located in Culver City, California. As you said, it’s a company that specializes in volumetric capture.

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Volumetrically Capturing Authentic Digital Actors, with Metastage’s Christina Heller

XR for Business Podcast

Metastage is an XR studio that puts real performances into AR and VR through volumetric capture. Metastage is the first US partner for the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Software, and their soundstage is located in Culver City, California. As you said, it’s a company that specializes in volumetric capture.

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Volumetrically Capturing Authentic Digital Actors, with Metastage's Christina Heller

XR for Business Podcast

Metastage is an XR studio that puts real performances into AR and VR through volumetric capture. Metastage is the first US partner for the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Software, and their soundstage is located in Culver City, California. As you said, it's a company that specializes in volumetric capture.