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Preview: ILM Uses ‘Star Wars’ Assets to Show Potential of Google’s ‘Seurat’ VR Rendering Technology

Road to VR

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.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

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.

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The Best Apps and Games to Get Seniors Into VR

ARPost

Some of the experiences are 360 video, while others are full VR. See Also: VR vs. 360-Degree Video: What’s the Difference? The app uses content from Wikipedia and Google Earth to create interactive and educational self-guided tours of just about anywhere. Nature Treks VR (Quest, PCVR).

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Hulu Beats Netflix to Social Viewing in VR on Gear VR

Road to VR

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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Virtual Reality in Storytelling

ARVR

Understanding the constraints and benefits of virtual reality and 360 videos for telling stories and exploring ideas of culture and identity Photo by Lux Interaction on Unsplash 01. Example 2: Google Earth VR [link] Google Earth VR puts the whole world within our reach.

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Igloo Vision Stirs XR World With London Open House Demo

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Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. The award-winning operating system is also layer-based, providing clients with fully bespoke configurations.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

South-Africa startup Eden Labs has created an interesting design for VR headsets needed in public installations to show 360 videos. It is a VR HMD based on the Skyworth S1 that features a handle, so that users can take the handle, push the headset to the face and enjoy the 360 content without the need of completely wearing it.

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