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Google Tango Brings Mobile 3D Photography to Life

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If you look at the evolution of capturing the world around us, it started with painting, then photography, then film and video. But the world is three-dimensional, and so 3D capture is the next big frontier in reflecting our surroundings. We believe 3D capture is going to be a major driver for VR adoption.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. GOOGLE DAYDREAM MAKES MUSIC AND TWO NEW PHONES ARE READY. The app is intended for the new-generation smartphones and tablets with 3D cameras like Intel RealSense and Google Project Tango.

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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

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Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Announced on Monday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 event , the partnership will offer content creators a trove of solutions for their volumetric video needs.

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GDC 2017: OTOY Is Bringing Mixed Reality Light Field Streaming To Unity

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Company CEO Jules Urbach is here to run through a list of updates in the video below but you best prepare yourself: there’s a lot. On display at Unity’s booth is the first light field video created in OTOY’s Octane renderer using the engine. It apparently streams without the need for buffering.

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Dacuda’s 3D Scanning Enables Room Scale Mobile VR Supporting SteamVR

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Google might not be ready to talk about any work it’s potentially doing with room-scale tracking for mobile VR just yet, but the team at Dacuda is.

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Q&A: How Sketchfab Is Making 3D Models Accessible

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The two big things that have changed is how we can create and consume 3D. Now with solutions like 3D capture, photogrammetry, and depth sensors, anyone can create a 3D file. Do you see Google Project Tango as a big part of the company’s future? We started with paintings, then we got photography, then we got video.

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Mother Meets Recreation of Her Deceased Child in VR

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For non-Korean speakers, using YouTube’s auto-generated translation is basically useless for the nine-minute video. Thankfully, the baked-in Korean subtitles were simple to translate via Google’s camera-based app and were remarkably clear too. Responses were created based off of family interviews and videos.