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At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. Photo courtesy Apple.
It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality.
(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming.
Founded in 2015, AmazeVR previously focused on building out its 360video subscription service for VR headsets, which features a variety of content. According to data reported by Crunchbase , the latest round brings the company’s lifetime financing to $25.3
Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Well played Apple. And this is possible because they both have big cash cows: Oculus has Facebook’s advertisement, and Valve has the Steam game store.
Over time, Borisenko will record and release 360videos that show different areas of the International Space Station, its different modules, and the different processes that take place aboard the vessel. Tagged with: 360 , Cosmonaut , documentary , outer space , Space 360 , zero gravity.
Chief Scientist of Oculus Research Michael Abrash described his vision of a mixed reality future: a world, 20-30 years from now, where we will wear stylish AR glasses instead of sporting stylish phones. For many, the 360 ° video of his daughter’s first steps was the first 360 ° video they ever watched.
Apple ARKit 3.5 It is no mystery that Apple is currently the best mobile augmented reality company, and the latest update to ARKit confirms this. I really can’t wait to see the Apple AR glasses…. update) More info (Impressive video of new AR features). Oculus Quest is available again in some countries. Very handy.
Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR. APPLE TAKES A (VERY SOLID) SWING AT AUGMENTED REALITY. However… we’re still waiting for those apple AR glasses.
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Pixvana , a cloud-based VR video company, today announced their much awaited solution for publishing and streaming 360video, a platform that promises to deliver up to 10K resolution streaming playback from the cloud to your VR devices. Even 4K video spread across a 360-degree sphere leaves much to imagination. .”
Galago Vision is a Southern California based 360° video production company that uses Virtual Reality or VR video tours and experiences to get clients’ messages across with the highest possible retention rate available today. This also marks the first Galago Vision app available on the Oculus Store. Apple Phones.
Nokia’s Ozo 360 degree camera is one of the most recognized offerings in a niche market, but it’s been missing a big piece of the puzzle until now. Previously, anything recorded with the company’s $45,000 stereoscopic camera could be edited with its Ozo Creator on the Apple Mac Pro, but not on PC.
They include Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, OSVR, Samsung Gear VR, Daydream, Cardboard apps for both Android and iOS, and even Windows Phones and the IdeaLens K2 all-in-one headset. To be fair, though, the Windows Phone section is mostly YouTube videos, not standalone apps. Oculus Rift app store. Official app stores.
With PowerDVD 17, their flagship movie and media player is bringing native support for 360 and 3D-360video for VR headsets, Ultra HD Blu-ray video, as well as HDR10 format support. ” PowerDVD 17 Key Features.
Enter RiVR, who are using 360video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360video to show you at the end of it — for your learning outcome — where the fire actually started. CEO Alex Harvey and Alan have a heated discussion on the topic. That was three years ago.
Enter RiVR, who are using 360video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360video to show you at the end of it — for your learning outcome — where the fire actually started. CEO Alex Harvey and Alan have a heated discussion on the topic. That was three years ago.
Pixvana is startup company focused on developing a cloud-based video-processing at the speed of delivery over the Internet. Its founders claim to be a proven team of industry experts from their former senior roles at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Lucasfilm.
Enter RiVR, who are using 360video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360video to show you at the end of it -- for your learning outcome -- where the fire actually started. But we have seen some good results from the dev guys testing our stuff on Quest -- Oculus Quest.
Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.
They were all streaming as flat 360video. Apple called it QTVR and this is what it is. Facebook/Oculus are soon to release the Oculus Go, which will have an LCD display, thereby virtually eliminating this horrid artifact, I think Samsung will need to come up with their own LCD based phone or competing VR headset.
Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles. Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Check out our article for what comes next. Samsung Gear VR.
Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles. Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Check out our article for what comes next. Samsung Gear VR.
And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Teppei: Sure yeah.
And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Teppei: Sure yeah.
As soon as we started looking into streaming, the acronym HLS kept popping up, which stands for HTTP Live Streaming and is a streaming format originally developed by Apple. Streaming to Oculus should also be possible, but this still needs a bit more development time on our end. Here is what we learned.
And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. As we know, some of the big guys -- including Apple -- are really not far from market. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.
And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. As we know, some of the big guys -- including Apple -- are really not far from market. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.
Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. You have video that you’re doing; maybe think about how 360video could enhance the experience, or bring it a step further. Alan: So let’s talk about the outlier here, and the one that is kind of on everybody’s mind: Apple Glasses.
Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. You have video that you’re doing; maybe think about how 360video could enhance the experience, or bring it a step further. Alan: So let’s talk about the outlier here, and the one that is kind of on everybody’s mind: Apple Glasses.
Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. Sometimes that happens outside and and people-- someone you've never met and never knew will torpedo the deal because they think, "Oh, my son had an Oculus Go and had a terrible experience.
Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. Sometimes that happens outside and and people-- someone you've never met and never knew will torpedo the deal because they think, "Oh, my son had an Oculus Go and had a terrible experience.
And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Teppei: Sure yeah.
Radiant Images hopes to do the same with an investment in 360video production, and VP Michael Mansouri drops in to explain how. 2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video.
Are you just using kind of Apple's framework for that? Five years ago we were doing 360videos and then we said, "OK, well, this is easy. And it turns out the 360video stuff we were doing years ago is what people want. The 360video stuff works, and it's simple, and it doesn't need to be crazy complex.
And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. As we know, some of the big guys -- including Apple -- are really not far from market. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.
Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. Sometimes that happens outside and and people-- someone you've never met and never knew will torpedo the deal because they think, "Oh, my son had an Oculus Go and had a terrible experience.
Every year I make this prediction game about what Facebook is going to announce at Oculus/Facebook connect, and this year won’t be an exception! Oculus Rift 3. Oculus Quest 2 Pro / Oculus Quest 3. Facebook is going to announce the Oculus Quest 2 Pro. Updates on Oculus Store. New Facebook Name.
During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.
Radiant Images hopes to do the same with an investment in 360video production, and VP Michael Mansouri drops in to explain how. 2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video.
Radiant Images hopes to do the same with an investment in 360video production, and VP Michael Mansouri drops in to explain how. 2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video.
Are you just using kind of Apple's framework for that? Five years ago we were doing 360videos and then we said, "OK, well, this is easy. And it turns out the 360video stuff we were doing years ago is what people want. The 360video stuff works, and it's simple, and it doesn't need to be crazy complex.
And it also makes me super-happy that no one is about Facebook and Apple… I was getting pretty bored in writing newsletters only about these two companies! Even if they are just concept videos, they are a massive piece of news anyway. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Quest is getting multi-user device sharing.
More info News worth a mention (Image by Antonio De Rosa) Apple headset in the final sprint of production It couldn’t be an XR newsletter without a mention of the Apple headset! And this will be beneficial for everyone in the field. Otherwise, it may be the beginning of a wonderful season for this new headset.
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