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Meet Bobby, the 3D-Scanned Teddy Bear (XR News 8/15/19)

XR for Business Podcast

Snap is raising another $1B with a focus on acquiring and building more AR technology into the platform. Samsung showed off their new Note 10 with full 3D capture, rigging and animation capabilities: check out my LinkedIn post.

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Meet Bobby, the 3D-Scanned Teddy Bear (XR News 8/15/19)

XR for Business Podcast

Snap is raising another $1B with a focus on acquiring and building more AR technology into the platform. Samsung showed off their new Note 10 with full 3D capture, rigging and animation capabilities: check out my LinkedIn post.

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XR News – August 12, 2019 – Meet Bobby, the 3D-Scanned Teddy Bear

XR for Business Podcast

Snap is raising another $1B with a focus on acquiring and building more AR technology into the platform. Samsung showed off their new Note 10 with full 3D capture, rigging and animation capabilities: check out my LinkedIn post.

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Distribution methods for VR & AR products into enterprise businesses

AIXR

The adoption of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology is one way that businesses are seeking to achieve this. Enhanced training and simulation with a reduction of cost. VR and AR technology also poses some security and IT challenges that businesses need to be aware of. Client Training & Onboarding.

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Facebook Shows Off Research Aiming to Deliver Truly Realistic Avatars

Road to VR

Abrash regularly speaks about when he expects these fundamental milestones in technology to occur, but in a new year-long blog series he wants to drill down to exactly how it’ll happen. At the moment volumetric captures last around 15 minutes, and require a large number of cameras to create the most photorealistic avatars possible.

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

XR for Business Podcast

Then there was also volumetric capture, which, for a long time, just wasn’t quite — I would say – at the technological sophistication that people wanted, to integrate it into projects. But are there companies that are leveraging this technology now, to broadcast their CEO or whatever? What’s the ROI?”