VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. The VR/AR Global Summit is poised to bring together apps from different corners of the sector.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

They both serve a similar purpose, that is blending the virtual and the real : if wearing a Varjo XR-1 headset you go to a greenscreen room, you will see the virtual world in the places where there is the green color and the real one in the other parts of your view. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

That means you’ll be able to meet up with other friends in Rooms’ hangout spaces with personalized avatars to watch Hulu content together, be it the 360 videos offered for free, or the entire library of films and TV shows featured in a Hulu subscription. That’s not the only update to Oculus’ versions of the Hulu app.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. Google releases a tool for body tracking on your phone. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Top news of the week. Image by Walking Cat). Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Both Facebook and Google have decided to double down on AR effects inside calls. Google has just added a lot of new AR effects and filters inside Google Meet , which is going to replace Duo quite soon. The worst tracking system is the one of Vive Cosmos, but honestly, we expected it. Meet and Portal double down on AR effects.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 25, 2017

It clearly doesn’t take much to make the virtual world feel physical. According to Nomadic, average experiences will be about 15 minutes long and will be priced below the cost of a regular film. He has worked on commercial projects for Apple, Google, Facebook, and Salesforce. The Nomadic team.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

InFormation is a two part (25 min) immersive documentary investigating the medium of Virtual Reality and creative use of the technology to build empathy and new forms of storytelling. Directed by Debra Anderson and produced by Hugh McGrory, InFormation is a Datavized production. A future release is being planned for Facebook 360 and Gear VR.

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AIXR

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The story came to greater prominence when it was adapted into a 2018 film directed by Steven Spielberg. In Cline’s incarnation, the Metaverse is an oasis, a seamless blend of real life and virtual life, achieving a kind of utopia. This is the idea behind the Metaverses that have begun to spring up over the last couple of years.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Venice Film Festival is featuring a rich VR section. Among the most important film festivals, La Biennale del Cinema di Venezia is the only one with an official VR competition. Finally, AR could become truly useful since it won’t be confined to rooms, but it can expand into the whole world. I can’t wait to discover who will win.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Most notably, Spencer Hunt from Skydance Media, a company co-producing films with Paramount Pictures. Free-roam transfers a player to the virtual world as much as possible.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). It seems that the filming of Matrix 4 has just started in San Francisco and people on social media are already getting crazy. Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today, we are taking the spatial computing industry to yet another level as we announce the availability of the full 6DoF developer kit for the Vive Wave open ecosystem, and a host of new 6DoF content and technologies to more easily bring users into fully immersive virtual worlds.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

The headsets and the technology for continuous virtual worlds and the blockchain for ecommerce, all the pieces are here. He felt that people aren’t going to get used to — at least with AR, you could be filming people around you all the time. There will be more standalone devices coming from Google and others.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. Samsung VR is now somewhat similar to the App Store or Google Play store in that it’s where you can find the latest content for virtual reality products.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Virtual Worlds Grid lost the most regions this month at 365 followed by Insight Concepts which lost 119 regions and Encitra Home Grid which lost 90 regions and Dorena’s World closing the fifth spot at 67. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For many, that’s been the general reaction to the metaverse , an all-encompassing virtual world that big tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg really want people to inhabit using virtual or augmented reality headsets. Just film performances and release them online instead.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 6, 2017

I asked him where we were in our ability to create the Metaverse, the immersive virtual world envisioned by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash. He noted that after George Lucas finished his first six films, he stopped doing a lot with that universe. Image Credit: Michael O’Donnell/VentureBeat.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Google Earth VR: bringing the whole wide world to virtual reality. With Google Earth VR, you can simply travel to anywhere no matter if you have time conflicts or financial difficulties, you can travel anywhere simply w. VRChat: Interact with global users in the virtual world. Travel VR Apps. Social VR Apps.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Also, while converging the physical and virtual worlds is inevitable, it won’t be through massive ski goggles on your face. Apple’s approach was not to get everyone into virtual worlds right away, but it was a great way to meet audiences halfway. Apple has missed that this is possible today, not tomorrow.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

This year Flock (video above) will expand upon some of the concepts of Holojam with a multi-user untethered virtual world “designed to get people to move, shake, and flock together.” Rainbow Crow, inspired by a Native American myth, has been showcased at Tribeca, Cannes, and Annecy film festivals. and “Asteroids!”

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. What room are you in, what objects or other people are around you.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

From virtual car dealerships to social ecommerce , our pals over at Chaotic Moon really crushed it this year in the VR department. While we love to chart new territory, the monthly SFHTML5 meetup at Google SF holds a special place in our hearts. However, one experience rose above them all.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

We have already seen some devices like Google Glass that gave us a taste of how they would improve the world, even while introducing new problems, deepest amongst them was that they didn’t provide enough benefit to offset the real social costs of wearing a computing device and the weight that a computer put on our face.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium. Everything they have announced is realistic , and it gives the company the impression of being reliable. I like this approach.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. SXSW is about technology, music, and films… like whatever.

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ARVR

JULY 3, 2020

For example, when we watch a 2D movie, we use our sense of sight and hearing to go to another world and experience things we will not in our own life. With more senses involved, the world we experience becomes more real and immersive. Example 2: Google Earth VR [link] Google Earth VR puts the whole world within our reach.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

This week, the damn coronavirus has caused the cancelation of three super-important events: GTC (that will be substituted by the streaming of the sessions), SXSW and Google I/O. More info (GTC canceled) More info (SXSW canceled) More info (Google I/O canceled) More info (Facebook & working from home). 3dRudder becomes wireless.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Being one of the earliest films to explore the combination of human computer interaction, TRON is well known for its, at the time, exceptional graphics. Head mounted display (start of film) : Prototype model that appears to be a maskless football helmet with an array of sensors and circuitry strewn around the head. TRON (1982).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Sorry if you have to use Google Translate, but the article is of course all in Chinese The most relevant piece of news for us in the West are all about Nreal: The Nreal Light is finally arriving in Europe and the US in Q2 2021; The Chinese company has also showcased an enterprise version of the headset. Microsoft Ignite will be in VR.

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Doc-Ok

JULY 27, 2019

Last weekend, we had yet another professional film crew visiting us to shoot video about our involvement in NASA’s still on-going Mars Science Laboratory (MSL, aka Curiosity rover) mission. This time, they were here to film parts of an upcoming 90-minute special about Mars exploration for the National Geographic TV channel.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Whether you’re looking for a movie, concert, sporting event, animated film or more, these apps have you covered. VeeR VR recently launched “Top Paid”, and you can watch many award-winning VR films produced by pioneering VR studios and filmmakers, such as Dark Corner, Ethan Shaftel, and many other outstanding VR creators.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

These are some of the very things we’re focusing on with the Virtual World Society and areas I’ve been exploring for some time. I’ve worked in many industries: music, health wellness, food, film, design, sports, education, and more…. It’s not a mechanism nor it is a practice of quantification… It is a work of inspiration.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. I managed to interview its CEO, Dalia Lasaite, and talk with her about the 3D models market trends and the relationship between the 3D modeling ecosystem and the virtual reality ecosystem.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Whether you’re looking for a movie, concert, sporting event, animated film or more, these apps have you covered. VeeR VR recently launched "Top Paid", and you can watch many award-winning VR films produced by pioneering VR studios and filmmakers, such as Dark Corner, Ethan Shaftel, and many other outstanding VR creators.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Everyone says that augmented reality (AR) will be bigger than virtual reality (VR): analysts , investors , technologists , and futurists alike. But because you’re much likelier to hear about VR today, especially this month with the launches of Playstation VR, Google Daydream, and Oculus Touch, AR can feel distant and overhyped.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

We were commissioned to bring a five-minute VR experience that they had filmed, giving behind-the-scenes look at the Rangers, the Knicks, and Billy Joel live on stage in 360 VR. And that was because they were bringing film first to the Pacific Science Center. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And all these concerts are being built on Epic, and Epic's filming Hollywood movies now, because people can't go to sound stages.

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