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Here Come The Holograms

VRScout

As the video below shows, a cinematically real, 3D George Takei is not something that can be made casually. To promote the film Marjorie Prime volumetric capture start-up 8i captured star Jon Hamm (an AI character in the movie) and has just now made him available to everyone via their free Holo smartphone app.

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What holograms are and why they matter in XR

The Ghost Howls

If we manage to capture these light rays that reflects and refracts out from the object, onto a light-sensitive film, we obtain a traditional photography. This special film gets so hit at the same time by the original untouched rays, and also from the rays that have hit the object and are scattering all around the space.

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3D Billboard of Giant Cat Looks Less Impressive From Other Side of the Street

GizModo VR

And while video of the cat billboard has gone viral, it’s slightly less impressive when you look at the image from across the… Read more. Could that really be a 20-foot tall cat just hanging out in the vacant space of a Japanese retail center? Don’t believe your lying eyes. It’s actually a 4K billboard screen that only looks 3D.

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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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