Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2017

360 Designs have revealed a new drone which carries the company’s 6k 360 VR video camera and a payload capable of broadcasting that imagery “over 5 miles” from a companion base station, which the company says means live-streamable, “broadcast quality” aerial 360 video is now a possibility.

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2017

One of challenges with 360 video is that when you’re in headset, if you want to move left or move right with your head, the scene is still locked around you, wherever that camera happened to be placed. Because each pixel has depth, 3D effects can be added to live action footage, as can be seen in the example below.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2017

The 360-degree version of Gorillaz’ music video for new track Saturnz Barz received over 3 million views in the first 48 hours, making it the single biggest 48 hour debut for a 360 music video in the (young) history of 360 videos on YouTube.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2018

Oculus CTO John Carmack has developed a new approach to VR video playback which makes it possible to play 5K 3D 360 video on headsets like Oculus Go and Gear VR. This new bar in quality is thanks to a novel technique to playing back 360 video which aims for maximum fidelity with minimal sacrifice elsewhere.

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Road to VR

JUNE 30, 2020

Google unveiled a method of capturing and streaming volumetric video, something Google researchers say can be compressed down to a lightweight format capable of even being rendered on standalone VR/AR headsets. If you’re looking for more examples of Google’s volumetric video, you can check them out here.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Nikon’s foray into 360° video continued at the ‘Nikon Innovation Forum: The 360° Video Revolution’ event in NYC last week. There the company’s recently released KeyMission 360 action camera was the centerpiece among non-360° action cameras of the same series.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2020

For example, the weather visibly changes as you move to different locations. Meanwhile, they used face filters and 360° videos to make the latest one responsive and fully immersive. Unlike some AR apps that only focus on transforming the user’s face, National Geographic lets you see a full-bodied Everest climber.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The very nature of VR/360° video means viewers are not passive—so your storytelling has to help invite them to be active. In 360° storytelling, you must directly address the question of which specific POV you will utilize in your story. Compare the following examples of opening setting descriptions from two plays.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 13, 2017

360 videos can do a lot of things, but what makes them the most remarkable is their ability to transport you inside new locations. But today, thanks to the magic of 360 video, you can now enjoy an up close and personal look at the world’s most famous dwelling narrated by none other than the president and first lady themselves.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Today, I would like to give you an example of a production process, so that you can appreciate how much work lies behind a seemingly simple project. It’s ok that people do not know how time and energy-consuming this all can be.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Parallel with new, more powerful and higher resolution VR headsets, improvements to NextVR’s technology are bringing promising new levels of quality and volumetric capability to VR video content. Attitudes toward 360 video content among high-end VR users are generally quite bad. Live Volumetric Video.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

traVRer , the last wordy entree from C-Lab showing at MWC, is a 360-degree video platform focused on virtual tourism, letting you visit landmarks and famous places around the world but with the mood, noises and events captured.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2017

He pointed to the PDF, OpenGL, http, and MPEG as examples of media formats which have drastically altered the way we make and consume information. An example of an incredibly detailed Lytro Reality Experience. Rosenthal made the point that revolutions in media require new content formats with new capabilities. Image courtesy Lytro.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As an example of a VPS solution, I will give you some details about Immersal , which is one of the leading companies for what concerns this technology. Unless you want to put a huge textured blanket in the park, you can not use markers to show the dragon on the fountain in the above example.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Upon entering the VR experience, a series of monoscopic 360 videos began to play and I watched as Jasmine struggled to assimilate back into civilian life, find employment, and ultimately reconnect with the teenage son she was separated from during her time in prison.

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Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2017

Announced in April 2016, Nokia’s agreement with The Walt Disney Studios was their first content partnership with a major studio, resulting in a few unique 360 video experiences for the films Pete’s Dragon , Alice Through the Looking Glass , and The Jungle Book.

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ARPost

AUGUST 16, 2021

This doesn’t necessarily mean a “digitally rendered” view like we think of video games as being digitally rendered. For example, 360 video is (or can be) a VR experience that doesn’t involve any “virtual” elements at all. For example, as mentioned above, I’m pleasantly surprised that people no longer ask me what VR is.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The Wheelchair Training Program, a VR experience that teaches new wheelchair users how to move in their environment, is the latest example of the design company using innovative techniques for good. We considered 360 video,” said Jones. The team at Fjord always keeps one thing in mind while working on new designs: human impact.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the years, they considered 360 video marketing, VR entertainment booths, and training simulations before settling on XR tools to aid with research. For example, they made an immersive environment in Unity to test custom furniture models. XpertVR was founded by Drew MacNeil and Evan Sitler.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

Adobe Premiere just got a tremendous release that will make editing 360° video easier than ever. Right now the stitching and metadata workflow does not make edited 360° content the easiest thing to do. Premiere Pro also allows you to work with VR footage that was captured in less than a full 360 degree sphere of view.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

One good example could be LBVR (location-based VR) venues, which could so substitute backpack PCs with Vive Focus 3 devices and remote rendering. In fact, they are already partners of THE VOID, with which they developed the last demo I tried. I hope you have enjoyed all these articles of mine about AWE!

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2018

Delivering high quality 360 video is tough. Most consumer hand-held 360 cameras top out at 4K resolution and are usually monoscopic, two facts that don’t always make for the highest quality VR viewing experience. image courtesy Lenovo.

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VRScout

JULY 4, 2017

Some big-time VR pieces like the Gorillaz’ Saturnz Barz (Spirit House) 360 video or Lytro’s Hallelujah experience have focused on experimenting with auditory experiences. The following recorded 360 video, for example, lets users hear what they are looking at more clearly than the other instruments placed all around them.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

Currently available for free with every new purchase of a Vive and now released on Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR, Job Simulator is a great example of what can be done with user-tracked VR. Expect to see great things from Swenson and co as 360 video continues to grow in prominence this year.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

” Composed, recorded and shot in just one week, Does Not Exist is one of the best examples out there that shows how spacial audio in VR can make music videos so immersive. ” We can really see why the Spotlight Story team at Google takes their time when releasing 360 videos. What could possibly go wrong?”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In terms of YouTube, for example, to watch 360 videos with a Daydream you’d currently need to use the official app, but with WebVR integrated you’d be able to view content through the Chrome browser instead. WebVR allows users to view VR experiences on web pages rather than through native apps.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Google offers the example of the melting of polar ice caps; it’s one thing to read about it or see a video, but it’s thought to be a more meaningful experience to be beside or on top of the glacier as the enormous sheets of ice calve off and crash into the ocean.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For example, say you’re working on a 360° video. Now, instead of telling one of your collaborators to have the bear enter “about fifteen seconds” into the video, you can tell them to unleash the beast “exactly 65 flicks after the fifteenth second.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 14, 2017

With 360-degree cameras, you don’t generally get to have a camera operator behind the camera since he/she would be seen. So you probably want to locate the stitching and/or viewing PCs far away or behind a wall or green screen, for example. Storage: The amount of data that 360-video rigs generate is enormous.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 8, 2017

Next up is real time stitching for the VRWorks 360 Video SDK, which is being released in public beta today. The SDK allows for 4K 360 video capture to be stitched and streamed in real time, while an upcoming release will allow for the same to happen in stereoscopic 3D.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Some of the experiences are 360 video, while others are full VR. See Also: VR vs. 360-Degree Video: What’s the Difference? For example, a player might not be as comfortable under water as they are on solid ground. Be aware that the biome selected may impact overall comfort level. Real VR Fishing (Quest).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2020

As soon as the first video played, I could see a guy in a garage working on some mechanical stuff. I started moving, and actually I had not the usual sensation typical of 360 videos of the world being stuck to my face, but everything moved coherently.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Guy Shelmerdine and Teal Greyhavens are hoping that fans of the horror genre will be enthusiastic enough about the potential of VR to achieve new depths of terror that audiences will be willing to pay for 360 video experiences. Here’s an example of a reaction video that helps these types of experiences spread virally.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2019

For example, one portion of the experience will have you standing in the middle of Wellington’s beautiful native bush listening to New Zealand’s birds sing right before sunrise in an audio VR experience that will use your headsets stereo speakers to encourage you to look in every direction. Image Credit: WellingtonNZ.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 12, 2023

A virtual reality fiction (6DOF) on Steam and HTC Viveport, a 360° video on YouTube and a short film on ARTE.tv For example, in 2015 and 2016, Belga Productions provided co-production and production services to several large-scale international film projects, such as Thomas Vinterberg's "Kursk" or EuropaCorp's "Renegades".

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