VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, Google makes music for Daydream, using AR to solve crimes, downgraded headset sales projections, prepping human head transplant for reality w/ VR, see your unborn child w/ VR, funding wrapup, and more… Special thanks to featured guest Jesse Damiani of VRScout.

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AllThingsVR

APRIL 11, 2017

million, Logon Olson joins Google, and Anna Sweet leaves Oculus. GeoCV, a New York-based 3D capture startup, secured $1.8 Founded in 2014 by 3D computer vision experts, GeoCV scans interior space using a 3D camera and smartphone. Weekly Funding Roundup: GeoCV secures 1.8

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

A Matterport Space, or 3D Space, is a complete three-dimensional representation of a space, which lets you “walk” through the space to experience it as if you were there in VR. Anyone involved at the intersection of real estate and Virtual Reality has probably experienced a immersive walkthrough made with Matterport technology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

A user study demonstrated the effectiveness of the system’s alleviation of virtual reality sickness symptoms. Adaptive Dynamic Refocusing: Toward Solving Discomfort in Virtual Reality. Blortasia and Zen Parade: Exploring Spatial Presence in Virtual Reality. A New (Virtual) Reality at The New York Times.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Using the power of photogrammetry, motion capture, and virtual reality, the team recreated Nayeon for one last goodbye with the family’s mother, Ji-sung. Thankfully, the baked-in Korean subtitles were simple to translate via Google’s camera-based app and were remarkably clear too. Image courtesy MBC.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2016

The easiest place to peak into this new world of volumetric photography is in the latest version of mapping apps created by Google and Apple. These three-dimensional cartographies cease to resemble maps on a page and begin to look more like virtual worlds from video games.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 31, 2016

GoPro Can Now Shoot In 3D Capturing 3D action footage could be about to get a whole lot easier thanks to Vitrima , a new low-cost accessory designed for GoPro cameras. Vitrima gets around this by using mirrors to enable 3D capture on a single GoPro camera with no other attachments or editing required.

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