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Post-Pandemic, Augmented Reality Serves Entertainment With Its Re-Emergence

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In 2014, Google Glass launched–to much fanfare, and nascent jokes online–quickly followed by the original Microsoft HoloLens. One of these boons, as mentioned, is the AI-driven body and facial capture technology augmented reality can provide, to replace close-proximity human motion capture.

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Google’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody Experience’ Proves That VR Music Videos Are the Future

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In collaboration with Queen, Google Play’s Bohemian Rhapsody Experience for Cardboard is an impressive example of where VR music videos are heading. See Also: ‘Apex’ is the Next Real-time VR Music Video from the Creator of the Acclaimed ‘Surge’. You can snatch the Bohemian Rhapsody Experience for free from Google Play.

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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

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Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Announced on Monday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 event , the partnership will offer content creators a trove of solutions for their volumetric video needs.

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Cast of Stranger Things Freak Out in New VR Experience

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The young cast was gathered in a hotel ballroom where they took turns donning an Oculus Rift headset fitted with motion-capture sensors. Although its not clear if this room-scale VR version will ever become publicly available to try, it appears the cast is experiencing a version of the 360-degree video below.

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‘Alien: Covenant in Utero’ Comes To Oculus Rift

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Dubbed Alien: Covenant in Utero , the two-minute VR video experience is now available on Oculus Rift for “Alien Day,” a nod to planet LV-426 from the Alien films. Additionally, the motion capture work for the piece was done at the Technicolor Experience Center (TEC) right here in Los Angeles.

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Jaguar Lets You Feel Wimbledon With Andy Murray VR Experience

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The experience was developed in Unreal Engine, using 4D character scanning and a specialist array of 125 Digital SLR cameras to capture the hero tennis player and 24 other hero characters, and motion capture technology for animation.

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Björk Launches Traveling VR Exhibition

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Björk has always been an early adopter when it comes to immersive technology, having released her “Stonemilker” video from last year’s album Vulnicura as a VR app along with an installation at New York’s Museum of Modern Art PS1. The Björk Digital exhibition features four VR music videos, with a premiere of Björk’s fourth VR video Notget.

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