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Real-Time Motion Capture Brings David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust Back To Life

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This weekend the second annual Infinity Festival opened its doors at the Goya Film Studios in the heart of Hollywood, offering guests the chance to attend a killer lineup of panels lead by Hollywood storytelling professionals and go hands-on with groundbreaking 5G, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and immersive technology. .

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SXSW 2023: Highlights and XR Experiences That Push the Boundaries of Storytelling, Music, and Technology

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SXSW 2023 also offered a range of compelling conference sessions across 15 tracks, including interactive tracks exploring science, technology, culture, government, and more; film tracks covering both the creative and business elements of film and TV production; and music tracks featuring content on the making, marketing, impact, and future of music.

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XR Talks: Augmenting Hollywood

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The technology shouldn’t be forced into a narrow definition of graphics that overlay the physical world. The latest augmentation that came to our attention isn’t a new technology but one that isn’t often associated with AR: the growing trend of LED walls in film production. ILM specifically uses Unreal Engine.

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Sony Establishes Virtual Production Collaboration Centre

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Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. VP solutions look to replace or enhance pre-existing film production operations such as green screens and in-vehicle backdrops. Unreal Engine] is a beast which is inherently a game engine, not a film production tool.

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These Five 360-Degree Nature Videos Showcase Planet Earth

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Featured image: President Barack Obama watching a virtual reality film captured during his trip to Yosemite National Park in 2016. Whatever they are, I am definitely wearing one while writing this.). Unreal and enchanting — this kind of footage makes a case for bringing your 360 cameras wherever you travel. Do it anyway.

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‘Kingdom City Drowning’ Looks Like VR’s Very Own ‘Sin City’

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This is a new cinematic VR series built in Unreal Engine 4 from phoenixmirror. Talking to UploadVR over email, Phillips revealed that the project was born from his love of the moody atmospheres in games and films like Alien , Silent Hill , and Shadow of the Colossus. The answer might well be Kingdom City Drowning.

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Flatline VR Brings Near-Death Experience To Life

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“I thought it’d be amazing to document this, but if you film this you’d just watch someone else’s experience,” Schnitzer said. “I I thought it’d be cool to film something in 3D, but I decided to wait until we could do 3D VR so we could put people into the experience and have that visceral and emotional connection.”.