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How Theaters Are Evolving To Include VR Experiences

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” The theater refreshes its films once a month, and offers diverse content packages, including horror films, animations, and documentaries. According to Samhoud, horror films are the most popular films at the theater, followed by animations. The company also ran VR films in a pop-up theater in Copenhagen in June.

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Exclusive: How NVIDIA Research is Reinventing the Display Pipeline for the Future of VR, Part 1

Road to VR

This frontier state is radically different from modern game and film graphics. We cover a wide domain of applications, including self-driving cars, robotics, and game and film graphics. But first, to put them and our vision for future AR/VR systems in context, let’s examine how current film, game, and modern VR systems work.

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A brief history of VR and AR

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VR also dominated the pop culture, featuring prominently in films like “Johnny Mnemonic,” “Lawnmower Man” and “Virtuosity.” It’s easy to see how, in the early 1960s, such a system could be viewed as a logical next step beyond the film and television of the day.

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Keeping VR users from hurting themselves

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The method of claim 1, wherein said location of said user is determined by continually monitoring the location of a portion of said head-mounted display. Video filmed on August 14th, 2013. So important and clever, in fact, that Valve recently filed a patent about it.

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Remote Collaborative Immersive Visualization

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In the Vrui VR toolkit, each local VR environment defines its own so-called physical coordinate system , which is the system in which the local display screens and/or head-mounted displays are tracked. In OpenGL lingo, the equivalent of navigational coordinates are model coordinates.

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The hey I got food poisoning and could not make it to Augmented World Expo today. Here is a list of the fun things going on.

Cats and VR

Highlights of today’s remarkable announcements include: CieAR is unveiling its new AR film platform which enables a unique and immersive film experience in real space and time with life-sized 3D virtual characters. www.ciear.ca. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com. www.kodakpixpro.com.