XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2023

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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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

With ARKit 3, the system now supports motion capture and occlusion of people. When waving, the avatar can be seen to tip forward in response to the motion even though the user doesn’t. Motion capture. Video recording in AR Quick Look. Human Occlusion & Body Tracking. Faster reference image loading.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

It used to be that motion capture was so expensive that only big movie studios could afford to do it. Entertainment is one of them, and this video shows the disruption is well underway. They take a human captured on a standard 2D camera and turn that into a moving 3D skeleton that can be augmented in a digital world.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2019

Our Virtual Cast Enterprise package supports more professional tracking with motion capture system like MVN. Virtual Cast uses position and rotation information captured from VR headsets, controllers and trackers to puppeteer Unity humanoid models in VR space. How does Virtual Cast technically work?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We used Spatial as our platform and pushed their Unity SDK to the extreme to yield the most visually stunning and immersive space built on the platform. The Verse utilized over 100 video, music and sound effects to bring the virtual immersion to the next level. Our gallery level has multiple ASMR experiences one can enjoy.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Do you remember that viral video where someone using a smartphone was able to take a picture of an object and then paste it into Photoshop by just framing the PC with Photoshop with the phone

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 12, 2020

The startup’s Persona product which launched last year bundles both its software and motion capture hardware rig. Cubic Motion’s technology has been used in recent blockbuster gaming titles like Sony Interactive Entertainment’s God of War and Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Spider-Man.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Facebook’s Chris Pruett has made a video inside the Unite Now initiative in which he explains the logic behind such a curation. More info (The Weeknd performing on TikTok) More info (An excerpt of the concert shared by Cathy Hackl) More info (The full video of the concert). Adobe XD lets you now prototype XR interfaces.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. A new interesting project has been published on Kickstarter: it is called Axis, and it is a system of sensors that you install on your body to have full-body tracking for gaming and motion capture.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Some of the features that Apple is touting include better motion capture, improvements to camera access, and additional locations for Location Anchors. Check out this video to learn more about it. Unity AR Foundation is a helpful framework for cross-platform augmented reality app development.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

The glove is capable of intricate motion capture, including for use in XR applications. Demos on the AWE floor included more intimate recordings and video calls with loved ones, as well as a game built for 2D but ported in through a Unity SDK. “When is this mixed reality future going to happen? StretchSense.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. A traveling showcase of digital and video works, Björk Digital started in Australia and it just debuted at London’s Somerset house. Internet traffic. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. The original demo video went like this. At the time I was exploring Evolver , which in the end was bought by Autodesk in 2011.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Motion capture can find its roots in the art of rotoscoping, a technique developed in 1915 where animators trace over motion picture footage. Motion capture takes that to the next level by using different suits and tools to record the movement of subjects for use in various forms of media on 3D models.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 28, 2016

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VRScout

MARCH 9, 2023

Flipside Studio is an all-in-one video production studio that allows you to create your very own 3D animations in VR with no prior experience required. According to developer Flipside XR, the free tool features everything from real-time motion capture and professional-grade production tools to various sets, props, and custom avatars.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Mannarino said a motion capture grid system allows Universal Creative to track the players and the props inside the VR experience. The 10-minute VR experience, which was designed by VRStudios using the Unity 5 video game engine, spans a library, a narrow ledge high above the ocean and a cemetery.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

So it seems that the user will be able to see the videos he/she is recording, with the actual AR filters already applied in real-time. More info (Korean research on VR optics) More info (All videos of IEEE VR). I’ve seen the video about it, and it is pretty cool! A great bump in usability for sure. Some news on content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

A year later, the team had upgraded the platform to six players combating virtual reality zombies with assault rifles in the Unity-developed Outbreak game. Patent-pending technology using more than 100 cameras and motion capture devices track each player in real-time as they move.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

Avenged Sevenfold, one of the most outstanding heavy metal groups to date, has begun its Web3 journey with a new metaverse platform and music video featuring 360-degree immersive content. XR Today interviewed Ryan McKinnon, Freelance 3D Artist and creator of the immersive video for the new Avenged Sevenfold single, “We Love You.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Commonly used for creating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, motion capturing (mocap) has rapidly become a mainstay in the extended reality (XR) market, employed on the latest headsets. In our discussion, we explore the rise of immersive motion-capturing technologies for the gaming industry.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Nathaniel Ventura’s last three roles were management positions with Unity, Google, and Facebook Reality Labs. nik is best known for his role as lead gameplay designer on The Witcher video game series. “We Animations in the game were produced through motion capture of real ball players.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

No longer bound to physical locations, users can access volumetric video and real-time 3D content to interact. These have attracted thousands to the same immersive spaces for performances in real-time and 4K volumetric video. Creative visionaries are now using the canvas of spatial computing for their experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

As I did with Mister President Alvin Wang Graylin , I’ll leave you here the full video of the interview, with a non-exact (simplified) transcription of it below it , so that you can choose how to get to know Gaeta’s thoughts.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

With Gear VR, you use your phone to experience VR apps, but your phone is a device that has to do a bazillion things (handle calls, messages, videos, VR, etc…), so it has to be good for lots of use. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 3, 2023

Its Flipside Studio solution will empower content creators to create engaging videos via real-time motion capture (mocap) and production tools. It can also swap and edit real-time 3D (RT3D) objects without gaming engines like Unity or Unreal Engine.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2021

We didn’t know how to bring Jean-Michel Jarre into the public rooms, we liked the idea of taking the video streaming and creating a hologram from the video, and making the background disappear. Jean-Michel Jarre getting suited up for motion capture for the concert on Dec 22nd. // Image Credit: @louisadrienleblay.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Gijs: Nowadays you don't have-- well, you have some basic skills, you have seen some videos. So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen. And then we help you to actually get the SenseGlove into your virtual environment, into your Unity environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Gijs: Nowadays you don't have-- well, you have some basic skills, you have seen some videos. So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen. And then we help you to actually get the SenseGlove into your virtual environment, into your Unity environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Gijs: Nowadays you don't have-- well, you have some basic skills, you have seen some videos. So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen. And then we help you to actually get the SenseGlove into your virtual environment, into your Unity environment.

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

This method creates 3D video but it isn’t very helpful for creating those imaginative experiences that computers can make. This method is similar to the motion capture technology that has been used to create realistic computer generated video for years. Live Client is a tool for facial motion capture.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Hand Capture. A new motion capture and animation plugin for Autodesk MotionBuilder 2016, Hand Capture lets you “capture hand and finger movement in real time directly inside MotionBuilder.” We learned how to use Unity, code in C#, design in Autodesk Maya, and use a Leap Motion sensor.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Jaron Lanier demo’d the first real VR headset and motion capture wearable, the EyePhone and DataGlove, more than thirty years ago. AR/VR, like nuclear fusion and Brazil , have been the future for so long that it’s become a little hard to take that future seriously. Neuromancer was published in 1984.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Nreal is one of the most popular companies in the field, having won over several well-known investors like Qualcomm, short video app Kuaishou, video streaming app iQiyi, and GP Capital. Designer, Director and Researcher, #Keiichi is best known for his dystopian video “ Hyper-reality.” 24- Keiichi Matsuda. 28- Harsha kikkeri.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

Chapter 6 covers the computational requirements and trade-offs in building the metaverse, while chapter 7 looks at virtual world engines such as Unreal and Unity. for motion capture, the ability to interact via haptics, etc.), Chapter 8 addresses the thorny issue of metaverse interoperability and standards (i.e.,

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