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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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2017

Unlike 360 video, which first saw support on the video sharing platform back in 2015, VR180 video is missing the ability to change your point of view (POV) when viewed on traditional monitors.

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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. YouTube is of course owned by Google, with the latter digging deep on 360 video. Go-Pro’s Odyssey – a Google ‘Jump’ Camera Rig.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

Adding to the flexibility of the MOZA interchangeable gimbal system, the unit works with all lightweight 360-degree cameras with minimal obstruction to the field of view. Video stability is a major culprit, and 360 cameras exacerbate the problem of handheld capture severely.

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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 Some students take the initiative to edit their videos as well, though this isn’t required. Where Pico Comes In.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2020

AR has been on the horizon for quite some time but only now has become accessible to the masses with the Spark AR platform which exists within Instagram so it doesn’t require any additional hardware or software,” they answered in a statement. As you launch the AR interactive, your journey begins near the base of the mountain.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Let’s take a virtual tour with a minimum number of 10 photos (360 photos), 3 videos (360 videos), and 10 hotspots (interactions) to be put only in the videos (therefore 30 total interactions). Hardware and number of people in the crew to be selected based on points 1 and 2.

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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. They allow data collection using eye and hand tracking, audio and video capture, and other VR accessories. XpertVR was founded by Drew MacNeil and Evan Sitler.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

The video I saw was impressive also because the headset has an integrated 8K video decoding hardware , that makes watching 8K videos in it great (remember that in 8K videos, the 8K resolution represents the full-dome of the 360 video, so the part that you see has actually a resolution inferior to 4K most of the time).

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The rendering of the rooms themselves changes based on your hardware in a system that Baker calls “the responsive fidelity system.”. “We We detect what hardware you’re on and if we think your hardware can handle it, we throw you a higher quality environment,” Baker explained in an in-app interview last month.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2019

I have had only a limited time with them inside which I have only watched 360 videos and so I haven’t even been able to use the controllers… but I think that my time with them was enough to give you my first impressions. Regarding hardware IPD setting, it lacks as well. Are you interested? Then, let’s start.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Today at I/O 2017 Google introduced Seurat, a new rendering technology that’s designed to take ultra high-quality CGI assets that couldn’t be run in real-time even on the highest performance desktop hardware, and format them in a way that retains their visual fidelity while allowing them to run on mobile VR hardware.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

Designed in partnership with Oculus, the Gear VR hardware platform delivered the first high-quality mobile VR solution back in November 2015 (beating the consumer version of the Oculus Rift to market) and has only recently received notable competition in the form of Google’s Daydream platform.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This is however independent from the fact that Facebook’s desktop/mobile app is hardware agnostic, making it an interesting, but altogether understandable move by the social network giant in effort to gain more users (and more user data) so they can further refine their social VR platform.

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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. You can see a teaser video heading this article.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2018

Typical VR videos are displayed in full 360 degrees, but rendering all of that footage can be overly taxing on the hardware creating the experience (especially for smartphones). Soon after the live stream he and his team released a full 360° video to promote his farewell tour as well.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2020

Like any fledgling hardware, however, the device is not without its faults, the most vocal being a heavy front-end that can cause additional stress to a user’s neck during extended play sessions. Still, I could definitely see myself using the counterweight while watching movies or less-intense 360 videos. .

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This operation is similar to the “stitching” done with multiple flat videos that have to be merged into a 360 video. Device compatibility Not all VPS systems are compatible with all devices and before choosing a service, you should check if it works with the hardware you intend to use.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

XCOM Labs has worked on all the layers of this solution: the network architecture, the hardware, and the streaming protocols. There was a grid of like 16 of them on the ceiling to create the network for the headsets. I hope you have enjoyed all these articles of mine about AWE!

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Road to VR

APRIL 1, 2017

As of now, no specifics as to the nature of the experiences are available – whether they’ll take the form of passive 360 videos or more substantial realtime, interactive rendered experiences. SEE ALSO First 'StarVR' 210 Degree FOV Headsets Have Shipped to IMAX.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2020

Hardware specs are still not entirely clear, however Mova is said to offer 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity built on the back of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset. It will also offer premium 2D and 360 video content from its operators and partners.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

This trend is in large part spurred by hardware manufacturers, who recognize that without “sticky” content that keeps punters coming back for increasingly longer sessions, they are unlikely to reach consumer adoption critical mass anytime in the near future. Image Credit: Virtuix.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 24, 2017

The new unit is being positioned as an affordable, portable, easy to use system that will allow creators to make high quality 360 videos more easily. In addition to the hardware, the Halo will also be able to take advantage of Google’s cloud stitching technology. The entire rig weighs less than eight pounds.

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AllThingsVR

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Insta360 Air looks to bring affordable 360 video to Android phones 360-degree cameras are still somewhat of a novelty, with a range of options offering decent quality for around $300 or so.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

I still remember when Amaze was a distribution platform for 360 videos … I loved the high quality of its videos and I also loved the team working there. Then the startup pivoted to VR concerts when it understood that the market for 360 videos wasn’t going to explode.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Although CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently posted pictures of himself testing new hardware technologies in the Oculus Research lab , which highlights their long-term commitment to the medium, the essential focus in the short term is content. SEE ALSO Facebook Teases "breakthrough technologies" Coming to New Oculus Products, Tours R&D Lab.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2017

For less capable computers or mobile headsets, the same scene would be represented as baked-down 3D geometry, while mobile devices would get a high quality 360 video rendered at up to 10K resolution—all using the same pre-rendered source assets.

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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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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This trend is in large part spurred by hardware manufacturers, who recognize that without “sticky” content that keeps punters coming back and hooks them for longer, they are unlikely to reach consumer adoption critical mass anytime soon. will leverage their production facilities to test the framework during ESL’s live esports events.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 14, 2017

UploadVR: How will real-time stitching impact 360-degree production crews the most? Sasa Marinkovic: Previous hardware and software limitations meant that it would take many hours or days to stitch a high-resolution 360-degree video, which clearly posed a major challenge for 360-degree production crews.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Lenovo is growing its extensive XR partner portfolio to scale enterprise AR/VR/MR solutions alongside its ThinkReality VRX headset, creating new enterprise XR opportunities via an ecosystem of trusted solutions and hardware.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 8, 2017

As announced at the GPU conference today, Nvidia is releasing new software development kits (SDKs) for VRWorks that will help to enhance VR experiences running on the company’s hardware. Next up is real time stitching for the VRWorks 360 Video SDK, which is being released in public beta today.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. On October 4th, Google revealed Daydream View, which is their reference design for their mobile VR headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 28, 2017

Virtual reality cameras have been hot hardware in the industry this past month and now Adobe is bringing innovative new software to the table as well. Earlier this week, Variety reported that Adobe’s head of Research Gavin Miller is claiming a new process for 360 video post-processing.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Though well loved, Apple’s computer lineup got somewhat left in the dust at the launch of the Rift and Vive, both of which had hardware requirements that exceeded what Apple had on offer. Apple is updating their professional video editing application, Final Cut Pro X, to support 360 degree video editing.

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