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YouTube has been thinking about immersive video and the future of viewing experiences for awhile. The video platform became one of the first major players to allow 360° video sharing in 2015. Announced during day two of Google I/O, YouTube is launching the ability to co-watch YouTube in VR with friends.
The manager sits you down in some store room, wheels in a TV and makes you watch a training video that’s about as immersive as watching paint dry. “We found that people were easily able to navigate through the experience more naturally with the point-and-click interaction of the Daydream controller.
Google today announced what the company is calling the “next-generation” of its ‘ Jump ‘ 3D 360 camera initiative. Update (4/24/17, 11:34AM PT): Google reached out to correct the price of the Yi Halo camera to $17,000, having initially stated the camera’s price as $18,000.
With the Galaxy S8 and S8+ coming later this month , Samsung is hoping to sweeten the deal with a free Gear VR headset and Controller for US and Canadian pre-orders before April 20th. value) for an additional $99 to go along with your free Gear VR headset/Controller and Oculus content bundle. Free Gear VR with Galaxy S8 Pre-order.
YouTube has a lot of 360-degree videos. While they haven’t organized these videos into their own content field (yet) you can search for “360videos” or “immersive videos” and find quite a lot, usually with special icons on the thumbnail preview to let you know that they’re immersive.
Former EP at Vrse.Works, filmed 360° video for NY Times, Within, Facebook, Airbnb, Muse, Mastercard and more. I’m also a huge fan of all of the Google Jump cameras [such as the Yi Halo]. Filmed 360° video for Conan, Vogue, Jaunt, Discovery, TBS, USA, Lexus and more. Recommended 360° Cameras: Inst360 Pro?—?$3,500.
Google is delivering a dedicated VR YouTube app in their newly announced Daydream platform. Along with it, the company is making sure to give users a few reasons to jump head first into the app when it launches by encouraging more established YouTubers to get into 360video.
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. In fact, we believe we were among the first to make a truly usable VR video player. Who else remembers Moon VR Player?
360° video emerged as a unique medium that allows audiences to take control and discover more compared to standard video or still imagery Click To Tweet. The investment will primarily focus on virtual reality video games, interactive art shows and augmented reality experiences in tourism.
HTC is the maker of the Vive VR headset , a monumental achievement in optics, controls and 3D positional tracking for VR. Google Earth VR. presented Google Earth VR with the Century Award for VR in service of environmental enrichment. Longtime Hollywood environmental activist, Ed Begley Jr. Ghostbusters . Nomads: Sea Gypsies.
A total of 17 lenses (eight stereo pairs aligned horizontal, and one centered vertical lens), and 6 internal microphones allows for capturing 3D 360video and spatial audio. One-step stitching and control software, provided by Samsung, allows for 3D 360 livestreaming up to a claimed 4,096 × 2,048 at 30 FPS per eye.
Through a partnership with Seattle-based startup Pixvana, Valve is also launching a VR video section aimed at bringing many of the benefits of distributing a 360-degree video on Facebook or Google’s YouTube to PC users consuming content through Steam. Export of configured 360video directly to Steam.
The drive-in theater is for Plex Premium members only however, a subscription service that lets you additionally record TV for free over the air, sync your media for offline viewing, enable parental controls, and have ‘enhanced’ media playback.
YouTube tells budding VR film-makers what not to do when shooting an immersive 360 in this excellent crash course in this fledgling but ever more popular form of content. Go-Pro’s Odyssey – a Google ‘Jump’ Camera Rig. YouTube is of course owned by Google, with the latter digging deep on 360video.
One major exception to this used to be 360videos and images, but now that restriction is becoming a thing of the past. Last week, VLC revealed that it is now 360 enabled for both images and videos. VLC 360 was created through a partnership between VideoLan and the hardware company Giroptic.
Positivity Moves The World brings brain-controlled interface technology to the GearVR via a headband. There’s no shortage of bizarre control schemes for VR experiences these days. However it’s the work being done with brain-controlled interfaces (BCI) that’s truly pushing the boundaries of what can be done in virtual reality.
Google is celebrating some new milestones this week with an announcement at Mobile World Congress that more than 10 million Cardboard viewers have shipped worldwide. The Daydream View VR headset that boasts more comfort and interactivity with a hand controller, is averaging about 40 minutes of usage per week. Daydream Sees New Content.
Alongside the official reveal of the Google Pixel phone last month, Google announced Daydream View , a VR headset and controller combo designed for use with the company’s first Daydream-ready phone. SEE ALSO Google Daydream Review: Casual VR Closes the Gap. The list below was provided to us by Google.
What began as a somewhat clunky chunk of luminescent white plastic has transformed into a sleek, dark headset packed with a surprising amount of features including touch panels, ergonomic head straps and an honest-to-goodness motion controller. Skybox is an in-VR 360video player that actually seems to care about the little things.
Google is finally bringing the official YouTube VR app to the Oculus Store for Samsung Gear VR soon. Google also announced a new social feature coming alongside the Gear VR app which will allow you to chat with friends while watching videos. The company says it will be available on Daydream View and Gear VR.
Google has officially unveiled their next generation Jump camera — the Yi Halo. Announced at the NAB conference in Las Vegas Monday, the Xiaomi-backed Yi has partnered with Google to bring a new professional camera to the market with some much needed improvements. The Yi Halo has 17 lenses and costs $17,000. at 60 frames per second.
To compliment the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce Distorted Reality , a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOS. He owned this new format and really took charge.
On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Image by Acer).
YouTube has launched a new app to coincide with today’s Daydream launch, one that’s built for virtual reality headsets and designed from the ground up to work with Google’s ‘next gen’ mobile VR platform.
On October 4th, Google revealed Daydream View, which is their reference design for their mobile VR headset. Google CEO Sandar Pichai also announced the first Daydream-ready phone designed called Pixel, which also has native hardware support for their artificial intelligent Google Assistant technology.
Before officially releasing it, Mr. President has highlighted that the Focus Plus is not just a Vive Focus with two 6 DOF controllers, but it has also a better weight balancing and new improved lenses (I will tell you my impressions on the device in my next post). Every 360videos on Vive Video will become immersive.
YouTube tells you where people are looking in your 360videos AND embraces 180 degree video, Google’s 180 degree camera, the Meta-Cookie project gets weird and alters your taste, and Intel leans into sports in a big virtual way…. It turns out that 75% of people watch only the front 90% of 360videos.
Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. This new standard evolves the previous H265 compression format for videos, reducing data requirement up to 50% while providing visually the same quality. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables.
Samsung has revealed their next gen Gear 360 camera plans via an FCC filing– and it looks to be shrinking a bit and getting a design refresh. Also remember: we’re soon going to have a Gear VR controller (it’ll be similar to Google Daydream’s controller, which operates like a laser pointer).
Do you know Google Spotlight Stories? It is a small R&D lab on creative projects hosted by Google that is focused on creating original VR storytelling experiences. The 16 experiences developed so far by the Google Spotlight Stories team. Back To The Moon is the first virtual reality doodle of Google’s history.
For many, the 360 ° video of his daughter’s first steps was the first 360 ° video they ever watched. With it, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated the benefits of 360 ° content and a major use case for consumers: to save and share family moments to be relived at any point in time. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017.
While VR video portals like Jaunt , Littlstar , Samsung VR , and others offer a single destination from which to stream many different 360 and VR videos, another popular way to distribute VR video has been as a standalone app, offering more complete control over the experience by the creator.
Even if you already knew all of the controls that this little app takes you through, the dance game and target practice games are both embarrassingly fun – even for this VR veteran. Some of the experiences are 360video, while others are full VR. See Also: VR vs. 360-Degree Video: What’s the Difference?
Mi VR will ship with a 9-axis inertial motion controller with integrated touchpad, and is compatible with Mi Note 2, Mi 5s, Mi 5s Plus, Mi 5—and only for ¥199 (~$29). Youku has since integrated 360video support for both their desktop and smartphone platform.
Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS! WEIRD OR AWESOME?
Without using Vive Trackers or other sensors, they try to reconstruct the pose of the full body of the users by just using the pose of the headset and the two controllers. The very original idea is that among these 4 arms, two are controlled by you (with your controllers) and the other two are controlled by the other player.
Its system adds motion tracking and hand controllers to mobile VR experiences (as an add-on to a GearVR smartphone + HMD setup, for example) and Emma Chen, Marketing Director for Ximmerse, explained the system offers 6 DOF immersion. Note the lights on both the HMD and hand controllers; this is how motion tracking is achieved.
And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).
We also discuss the future of integrating biometric feedback like heart rate variability as a control input for VR experiences. Google Earth VR also uses a lot of dynamic light changes throughout their pre-recorded animation sequences to provide a sense of progress and a feeling of a beginning, middle, and end to an individual scene.
Facebook launches a dedicated 360 photo and video player , while teasing those of us in America with the prospect of live streaming our Gear VR games to Facebook. Facebook 360 is currently available on Gear VR, acting as a destination for the 1M+ 360videos and 25M+ 360 photos that have been uploaded to the social media giant.
The official solution to accessing the massive catalogue of 360 degree as well as 2D video content has already been available on various VR platforms like Google Daydream and PSVR since 2016, but this marks the first time the app will be available to SteamVR users. Hell, some people are having trouble launching the app entirely.
Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.
The YouTube VR app originally debuted on Google's own Daydream VR platform (which it killed back in 2019 ) in 2017. In the years since, Google also brought YouTube VR to the Oculus Store on Samsung Gear VR in 2018 , then Oculus Go later that year , and was a launch title for the Quest Store. Pico 4 now has the official YouTube VR app.
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