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Vimeo didn’t pick the best timing to announce its support for 360video streaming, but it’s finally here at least. The online video service yesterday announced Vimeo 360 , its new platform that allows any to upload panoramic content that can be hosted in up to 8K.
Oculus CTO John Carmack has developed a new approach to VR video playback which makes it possible to play 5K 3D 360video on headsets like Oculus Go and Gear VR. ‘Henry’ was the first production from the now defunct Oculus Story Studios. Image courtesy Oculus.
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. Suffice to say, at the time, VR headsets, such as the Oculus Rift CV1, did not have the hand controllers that are used now, and necessarily needed a powerful computer to run apps.
360videos 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 360video, 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.
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 360video continues to grow in prominence this year.
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.
In terms of YouTube, for example, to watch 360videos 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.
Some of the experiences are 360video, while others are full VR. See Also: VR vs. 360-Degree Video: What’s the Difference? Wander is a VR classic – a port to Quest from the older Oculus Go. For example, a player might not be as comfortable under water as they are on solid ground. Wander (Quest).
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. WellTown is available now on SteamVR and Oculus.
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 360video experiences. Here’s an example of a reaction video that helps these types of experiences spread virally.
The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have good content and roomscale capabilities, but they’re tethered and the resolution isn’t great. The more impressive demos were the 360-videos and other 360 scenes. I stood stop a skyscraper in Dubai, for example, watching a too video unfold in gogeous detail.
His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.
Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360video 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 360video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.
Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360video 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 360video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.
The result is a 6-minute piece of interactive, 4K stereoscopic 360video that is every bit the bacchanal the video below would have you expect. “I think BeefeaterXO is the perfect example of what happens when a brand supports creative talent and innovation,” said Alcalá. A dream come true.”
The company’s founder Palmer Luckey, a self confessed audio enthusiast, ensured that the consumer Oculus Rift which shipped in June sported both high quality headset integrated headphones, but also ensured the Rift received its own audio path, including a quality DAC and Amp.
Who: Oculus Story Studio (Saschka Unseld, Wesley Allsbrook). ” MECHANICS: An Oculus experience with headset/headphone only. MECHANICS: This is a 360video with ambisonic sound – I experienced it on a GearVR in the Oculus House at Sundance. To be clear: clean 360video post-production is hard to do well.
Oculus Quest is available again in some countries. In some countries (not US), Oculus Quest and Rift S have got back in stock. If you’re interested in these devices, have a look at Amazon and Oculus websites. Oculus rolls out runtime v15 for Quest. The update also fixes many bugs with Oculus Link. Very handy.
Let's talk about how you guys are using VR and 360video 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 360video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. For example, company comes, XYZ company.
Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360video 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 360video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.
It’s like Oculus or Meta currently. Why did you decide to do a concert with your cameras in 180 VR and not with all CGI, or with 360videos? Nikk: 180 over 360 is just where the technology’s at. The West is Meta, China is ByteDance , and so Meta, Oculus, ByteDance, Pico. Makes sense. That’s it.
There are number of really good and high quality 360 degrees productions for entertainment, art, documentary, education or training with the examples of “ Flight of Voices ” live VR concert experience by CreatorUp or “ Expedition Palau ” oceans diving movie by Meridian Treehouse. that’s the most important part. size headset).
While VR communities are full of posts like “ 360videos are not VR “, 360videos are still widely used for marketing. 360 tours of houses made with 360 cameras are still not widespread and that many people still don’t know them. Let me explain what I want to mean with an example.
The HoloLens, for example, is Microsoft’s AR platform while the HP and Acer headsets are their VR platform (although they refer to them as “Immersive” headsets in documentation, but whatever, they’re clearly VR headsets.) When I accessed the “Movies & TV” app it even auto-loaded a 360video section.
Award-winning films such as Chris Milk’s Clouds Over Sidra and HOME/AAMIR – produced in partnership with the National Theatre’s recently launched Immersive Storytelling Studio in London – are other examples of this. We Wait is now available globally and for free on the Oculus store.
Since around 2010 modern day VR has come out through the companies of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Sony Playstation VR. The ability to create 360video has been around since around 2016 when users could attach a few GoPro’s together in a rig to capture pictures and video. Tiny Planet My personal favorite.
For example, In Lucky’s Tale for Oculus Rift, the player controls a funny little fox, and is present in the game world as an invisible observer who follows the game’s main character. For example, creating unique «experiences» has already become an established VR trend. We find ourselves fully immersed in the virtual world.
Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers.
Earlier this year I had the chance to check out some of SilVRThread's amazing work within the 360° video space. The “NERVE - Do You Dare” app is an example of how film studios have the opportunity to put people right in the movie via VR. Cats And VR.
In 2016, Oculus Story Studio won an Emmy for their VR short Henry and in 2015, Emmy nominations were given out to FOX’s Sleepy Hollow experience and Taylor Swift’s VR app. This is the first time a VR-compatible film has been nominated for an Oscar.
Fast track to today, and every Getty Images photographer at the upcoming Rio Olympic Games, will be equipped with a 360 camera. Click to see some of the Getty 360° Video content. For more information, visit [link] Cats And VR.
Fast-forward six years, with Oculus Rift VR development kits readily available, Belch started a master’s thesis project with Bailenson to study how to use VR to train quarterbacks. Quarterbacks can also watch themselves from the 360 footage and they can then work on correcting their throwing motion and footwork in the offseason.
“Hallelujah is the first example of what things might be able to look like when you’re doing true volumetric capture.” These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. At the start of the video, as we look upon the singer, we can lean to the side and see the volume of his body.
For example, they’ve had a running partnership with the UFC for headlining fights or even the fights leading up to pay-per-view cards. ET and can be accessed via the NextVR app on Oculus Home or Google Play. FOX Sports regularly broadcasts big sporting events. The live broadcast starts tonight at 8 p.m.
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. Other VR app listings.
It’s likely because the medium is not ideal for 360video, not fully immersive, and doesn’t involve a powerful headset. While lacking the cache of say an Oculus Quest app , there’s still some real ROI to be had from embedding WebVR in your web site or having a standalone full-page WebVR experience.
Systrom said that the company’s vision was to let people travel “anywhere in the world at a fraction of a second” He then gave examples of letting people put on a headset to immediately find themselves at a Coldplay concert, visit protests and riots or simply attend a friend’s wedding.
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.
There are some 360° videos related to books on YouTube e.g. [link]. link] If there’s a movie version of the book you are studying, you’ll likely have more luck finding a 360° e.g. The Jungle Book clip above. link] I wish there were more examples to share with you but there really aren’t.
These developers make impressive 360videos like their Strictly Come Dancing footage, immersive experiences like the enjoyable Home , and artistic experiments like the one it created in partnership with popular singer, Björk. .” Rewind is happy to offer up some examples of this.
Each device supports videos up to a certain h.264 For example, iPhones only support videos up to level 3.1 so pretty appalling for VR video playback), while most Android phones will play level 4.2 videos just fine. Oculus Rift. 265 for Gear VR to get an optimal balance between video quality and file size.
The main selling point for VR has mostly been video games. The companies behind the major headsets, such as the recently released PlayStation VR, the HTC Vive, and the Oculus Rift are all leading the charge for VR. Examples such as I nvasion! For example, animating can be very different.
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