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‘Ready Player One’ Actors Filmed OASIS Scenes In VR

VRScout

Spielberg immerses his cast in a virtual set while filming certain VR scenes. It turns out VR played a more integral role in Spielberg’s upcoming Ready Player One film than we previously thought. It was really an out of body experience filming this movie. There’s the DJ.’ It’s very hard to really express what that was like.”. “It

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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. This will allow users to capture and edit content from the system, stream compressed content, eliminate quality loss, and other options, under the same pipeline.

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VRLA’s John Root on AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

Road to VR

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft.

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HoloLens Autodesk MotionBuilder App Lets SFX Artists Build Fantasy in Reality

Road to VR

As HoloLens filters its way into more developers’ hands, we’re beginning to see some of the true potential in Microsoft’s ‘Holographic’ augmented reality headset. So what if there was a tool which allowed an SFX artists to build his effects and try them out, in real time, overlaid into reality?

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Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

It also debuted numerous creator tools, including a motion capture (mocap) system for small content creators. The app allowed iOS users to scan QR codes to watch AR visualisations on short films the company produced. It also released LED displays for XR stages and other performance platforms.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 1: Everything you need to know about Vive Trackers

The Ghost Howls

base stations tracking that I’d not previously heard about: More compatible : base stations co-exist with your other IR devices and have better immunity from depth cameras and motion capture systems. Film production using HTC Vive Trackers (Image by HTC). According to Valve, there is another advantage of 2.0 Vive Pro) .

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Top XR Stories of 2019

Tech Trends VR

The project involved a week of filming, during which Glauben was captured answering over 1,000 questions by 18 cameras placed at 9 different angles. The experience will use 3D capture technology, which scans participants as they enter a location-based VR venue so that friends can see each other as holograms and work collaboratively.