Tech Trends VR

JUNE 5, 2018

Jak’s passion for creating virtual stories stems from animating Minecraft films and ultimately creating a feature length film entirely in Minecraft, Skies of Aurora. Jak’s passion for creating VR stories stems from animating Minecraft films Click To Tweet. Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief.

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AR Insider

JUNE 14, 2021

Let’s dive in… The Tribeca Film Festival’s always impressive immersive offering is back in hybrid form. While Oculus makes all the noise, Playstation VR, the leading home VR system, showed off an impressive line-up of new games. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. Sony showcases upcoming VR titles for Playstation VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2019

Dick inspired VR experience, The Great C (2018) , to Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The 37-minute sci-fi adventure experience is now available for $6 across all platforms, including versions available on Steam (Vive, Rift) and the Oculus Store (Rift, Go, Gear VR), and Google Play ( Daydream ). The post Philip K.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The second of three Blade Runner 2049 VR games is now available free for the Oculus Rift. If you haven’t seen the new Blade Runner film yet, I suggest you drop what you’re doing and head to a theater immediately. The title is available for FREE today on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Sundance Film Festival is this weekend and next in Utah, giving new mixed reality projects a moment in the spotlight. She was accompanied at the event by none other than Palmer Luckey, who worked at USC before formally founding Oculus. baobab , felix & paul , invasion , Meta , sundance film festival.

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Road to VR

APRIL 7, 2018

Yelena Rachitsky is an executive producer of experiences at Oculus, and she’s been inspired by how interactive narratives have allowed her to feel like a participant who is more engaged, more present, and more alive. The future of VR storytelling will be immersive and interactive. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Groundhog Day (1993) , the iconic ’90s film starring Bill Murray, is getting its very own full-length VR game soon—well, sort of. The studio makes mention of “other major VR platforms” as well, showing both the Oculus and Vive logos. Image courtesy Tequila Works.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. IR motion capture for VR, image courtesy OptiTrack. image courtesy Sensics.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2017

Compatible with multiple VR platforms including Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, fans will be transported into worlds of unforgettable live experiences. Featuring a cast of over 100 and filmed by a crew of almost 30, the experience offers two experiences in one. O2 Academy Venues VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

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. VRLA is happening this year on May 4th and 5th.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 29, 2021

Blake Kammerdiener: XR and Film Programmer. I sat down for a video chat with Blake Kammerdiener, XR and Film Programmer, to learn more about this project. They did a motion capture recording of him performing at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London and put that performance into the SXSW Online XR experience.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

” Brekelmans has released a video (embedded at the top of this page), demonstrating the new project in action, filmed through the HoloLens visor, aptly demonstrating the HoloLens’ tracking abilities. ” See Also: HoloLens Enterprise Mixed Reality Development with Object Theory.

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Road to VR

JULY 20, 2017

Sometimes sci-fi games need only put you head-first into a shiny new world, let you inhabit a universe seemingly ripped from TV and film, and call it a job well done. Available On: Oculus Rift (Touch required). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift. Lone Echo Details: Official Site. Developer: Ready at Dawn.

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Peter Graham

JULY 11, 2019

There’s a reason spy films like the James Bond and Bourne franchises do so well, mixing ridiculous plotlines with amazing effects which provide a thrill ride for the audience. Twisted Pixel aims to do just that with Oculus Rift exclusive Defector. Twisted Pixel aims to do just that with Oculus Rift exclusive Defector.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

As an official partner of Ready Player One , HTC has been using the film to highlight its VR wares. As blockbuster films increasingly rely on CGI, filmmakers have looked for better ways to visualize the virtual worlds that are eventually rendered for the final movie. Each one was used at a different stage of production.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

For the Matrix trilogy it was important the use of computer vision, immersive photography, volumetric capture , the first markerless motion capture, to create frame by frame models of the performances… and today all these techniques are prolific in virtual reality and mixed reality.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

With powerful devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, as well as more mainstream products such as Samsung’s GearVR or Google’s Daydream View – we are being transplanted into other worlds and fool our senses into getting lost in them. Things are changing now, and believable worlds are becoming virtually real.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

You can now get a first look at Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son, an immersive VR game continuing 26 years after the iconic film left off. The game will comes to PlayStation, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive later this year. It’s February 2nd, so of course that means Groundhog Day Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. It can still be found on Oculus Share, although it’s quite old now. I’ve also built a couple of smaller proof-of-concept pieces that people may have seen on the leapmotion or oculus subreddits.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Vive took the early market by storm , launching out the box with full roomscale support and tracked motion controllers , whilst Oculus could only launch their Rift CV1 with seated support and an Xbox game controller. Film production using HTC Vive Trackers (Image by HTC). According to Valve, there is another advantage of 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Development of robust, millimeter-accurate interior-out tracking and positioning devices and motion capture devices. The government wants to see growth in all the areas that concern VR. – Near-eye display technology. – Render processing technology. – Development tool software. –Industry Solutions.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

A quick note : The Invisible Hours will support Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR, and includes support for respective motion controllers. Getting a chance to play the first chapter (of four in total), my initial instinct was to let the story play out like a film; no stopping time and only following the main beats.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

GAP’s augmented reality dressing room, ZeniMax wins Oculus lawsuit, VR porn has a super creepy head camera, NYU combines VR and dance, the investment and funding wrapup, and much more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: GAP ENVISIONS A FUTURE WITH AR DRESSING ROOMS. ZENIMAX WINS OCULUS LAWSUIT, COMES OUT SWINGING.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

Luckey went on to co-found one of the breakthrough companies in the VR industry with Oculus and its Rift headset, so it is no surprise that ICT could end up serving as the origins for other pioneering pieces of technology. The graphics lab at ICT captures high-quality digital faces for film with special (and expensive) scanning equipment.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Chaitanya has had a multi-faceted career in the Indian Film & CreativeArtsIndustry for over 17 years. Sandman Studios’ recent work “Free Whale” and “Fresh Out” are officially selected by 74th and 75th Venice Film Festival VR Competition. Eddie has Dir/Prod India’s 1st Award Winning- Stereoscopic VR Short Film-CRACKLE.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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