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Preserving Historical Landmarks In VR Should Be A Priority

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So far the partnership has resulted in the 3D capture of sites such as the 1,000-year-old Temple of Kukulcan in the Mayan city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico, parts of the Roman city of Pompeii , buried by the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.; and the Native American cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde in southern Colorado.

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Here Come The Holograms

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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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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

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With the tools, creatives can receive comprehensive, end-to-end capturing solutions with one of the world’s most capable and advanced 3D capturing and reconstruction systems. The all-in-one solution has remained compatible with many of the industry’s most widely-used 3D creation tools.

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Tech Powering Apple’s Spatial Recording Worth $4.4 Billion, Reports Predict

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Moreover, the firm explains how a user can create 3D captures of moments, allowing Vision Pro operators to play the footage back and watch it as an RT3D MR visualization – viewable from various angles.

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

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So Sketchfab was “just” a sharing tool. As the tool was good, it began to be used by a lot of different verticals. Then we started building the social layer into the tool. And now it’s not only a tool but it’s also the largest community of 3D creators and the largest library of 3D files on the internet.

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Weekly Funding Roundup: GeoCV secures 1.8 million, Logon Olson.

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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. Logan Olson , developer of awesome virtual reality music creation tool SoundStage, is joining Clay Bavor’s VR team at Google.

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Q&A With Matt Bell: How Matterport Started Capturing The Real Estate Market In VR

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In the same way that photography became an instant automated process to capture moments, we wanted to do the same thing for entire 3D spaces. Instead of several 3D artists taking weeks create a 3D model. tl;dr — Soon you’ll be able to capture spaces using Google Project Tango phones.