Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Google has revealed a new ‘surface light-field’ rendering technology that it’s calling ‘Seurat’ (after the famous Pointillism painter). This also means that developers can composite traditional real-time assets into the scene to create interactive gameplay within these high fidelity environments.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2017

Google’s newly announced Seurat rendering tech purportedly makes use of ‘surface light-fields’ to turn high-quality CGI film assets into detailed virtual environments that can run on mobile VR hardware. As a proof of concept, Google teamed with ILMxLab to show what Seurat could do. Star Wars Seurat Preview.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

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 360 video.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

One major exception to this used to be 360 videos 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.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2018

The stream could be viewed in both standard 2D format and in VR through the use of a Google Cardboard headset. Cardboard users could immerse themselves more completely in the festivities as part of Google’s new VR180 format. The VR180 initiative includes Google created VR cameras , apps and contests to keep the creativity going.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The foundation of Kinful is a library of 360-videos that are filmed by students around the world. These videos are then built into the Kinful curriculum and watched by other students using the platform. “We Because most of the Kinful content consists of 360 videos, their hardware requirements aren’t extremely demanding.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Google’s newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. The course starts off by outlining basic hardware requirements and pre-production checklists.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Like YouTube, which Google recently brought to the Vive , Facebook works only when it’s available to as many people as possible. Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. And the same makes sense for Facebook Spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

This will let the user move a bit the head while watching 360 videos and see the video moving accordingly. Every 360 videos on Vive Video will become immersive. What is great is that this technology works with every already existing 360 videos. The 8 modes of the Vive Focus Plus.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. Subscribe on iTunes.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2018

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.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

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).

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2016

We heard yesterday that the firm is to become part of Google’s 360 video platform Jump, announcing it’s to supply cameras as part of a high resolution, VR film rig. See Also: InfinitEye 210 Degree VR Headset Reborn as ‘StarVR’ with 5K Display.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video 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.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

They also produced a NAS concert for KCRW’s Sound in Focus and a couple pieces with Google Daydream including NFL Immersed and rag & bone. In addition to all of that, they’ve been working with various YouTube creators to educate and explore new capture techniques using Google Jump.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2016

Once the experience is finalized, creators have immediate access to all of the assets necessary to publish to any platform that supports 360° video, including the Jaunt VR App. The Jaunt One is supposed to be an end-to-end hardware and software solution, that up until now has only been made available to select content creators.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

You can Google “5G” along with any other hot technology in the same query and you can find someone telling you that somehow and at some point 5G is going to revolutionize that thing. When it comes to bandwidth however, 5G could significantly improve 180 and 360 video streaming quality.

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ARVR

JUNE 27, 2022

We’re getting better on hardware and high quality content, but how do we actually distribute the fabulous 360 degrees pieces? COVID also helped professional implementation of VR which is closer to the real experience than Zoom, Google Meet or Teams. Hardware ?—?you It will not sell if it creates them. Content ?—?that’s

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 16, 2017

Judging by CES this month, 2017 will be all about expansion and refinement for VR hardware and software. Today, however, we’re returning to Google. The video below showcases the tool’s speed in comparison to gzip, with 12 meshes loading faster in Google’s solution. Don’t know what that means?

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard? The Osterhout Design Group is an integrated hardware company with a deep background in advanced augmented reality innovation with the US military, and have their principal outsider investor in 21st Century FOX.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016 it released a compact smartphone-tethered headset for viewing 360° videos, to terrible reviews, and in 2017 it showed off a PC-tethered SteamVR headset prototype that it never shipped. LG had a very short history in VR. So what exactly will this new headset be?

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ARVR

JULY 1, 2020

Photo by My name is Yanick on Unsplash It is a common misconception is that you need specialised equipment and expensive hardware to use AR. While such cutting edge hardware exists, the device you need to dive into the world of augmented reality is likely already in your pockets?—?your But what about the devices? your smartphone.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

“The realization of the most premium VR experience ever offered isn’t just our dream, but one of an entire ecosystem that encompasses hardware makers, videogame developers, theater companies, filmmakers and many others.” Just don’t hold your breath for a consumer StarVR any time soon.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

STRIVR has done a few PGA Tour 360 video fan experience deals, but nothing on the training side yet. The hardware will get better in next 12 to 16 months.”. Belch said current enterprise projects, some of which will be officially announced in early 2017, use mixed reality with CG and 360 video.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 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. WHAT A DAY FOR A DAYDREAM… The highly-anticipated Google Daydream headset is here. Priced at $79, it is currently only compatible with the Google Pixel phone.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2017

We do a deep dive into immersive audio on today’s podcast where Riggs explains in detail their audio rendering pipeline and how their dynamic calibration of ear anatomy enables their integrated hardware to replicate near-field audio objects better than any other software solution.

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VRScout

JANUARY 19, 2017

Obama tries Google Cardboard in Hanover, Germany April 25, 2016. Since the production was created with Nokia OZO, we were able to utilize OZO Live, a solution that includes real-time 3D 360° stitching software, reference hardware, and allows for live virtual reality broadcasting. Why it Worked in 360°.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Pesquet will also be sending down some 360 videos he’s been taking on the ISS since arriving there in November. Research firm SuperData released a new consumer VR report that claims the global VR hardware revenue will be $3.6B THE NBA RELEASES THEIR FIRST VR APP ON GOOGLE DAYDREAM.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2018

There are 3 main VR platforms for mobile users and they are: Google Cardboard – Supports most modern Android devices, but has limited capabilities (no motion controls), compared to competitors. Google Daydream – Supports many high-end flagship Android devices and offers motion controls. Google Pixel XL Series.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Finally, one of the two major video streaming services available in VR will let you watch with your friends. Hulu has broken ground on social video viewing in VR with an update to their Gear VR app which lets up to three people watch regular and 360 videos together.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Thanks to the control of software and hardware, Apple is far ahead of all the Android systems for what concerns AR , something that many experts (like Robert Scoble) already forecasted years ago. I really can’t wait to see the Apple AR glasses….

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InstaVR

APRIL 17, 2019

Tarsem is currently developing an approach to disseminating ethnographic research about child protection using 360-degree video apps. To download Dr. Cooner’s apps from iTunes and Google Play, visit [link]. Question: What hardware, software and other filming equipment did you use? . How are you promoting it?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

I was among a handful of journalists invited to see the internal Microsoft prototype, though I was told photos or videos for my demo would not be allowed. While those units are expected to be an improvement, the prototype internal hardware I tried was running at 60 frames per second. This is something we’ve lost in the Vive and Rift.

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Infinityleap

MAY 11, 2016

The best of those photos will be collected in a section of the Oculus 360 Photos app, which you’ll be able to explore from your headset. 360 video is already supported in a similar way, but photos are dramatically easier to create, and should catch on more quickly. Photo credit: Facebook). Photo credit: Samsung).

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Immersive Authority

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Users can share their captured video and pictures on Bublcam s exclusive gallery Xplor. Jump is an amazing piece of hardware developed by Google. Google teamed up with the popular GoPro team to develop Jump. Jump is capable of recoding a full 360-degree stereoscopic VR video in 3D. Bublcam costs $799.

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