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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

This new standard evolves the previous H265 compression format for videos, reducing data requirement up to 50% while providing visually the same quality. The standard will prove especially efficient for 4K and 8K video and it works with high dynamic range video and omnidirectional 360° video. More info.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2017

OSSIC debuted their latest OSSIC X headphone prototype at CES this year with one of the best immersive audio demos that I’ve heard yet. Riggs says that they’ve been collaborating with Abbey Road Studios in order to figure out the future of music, which Riggs believes that is going to be both immersive and interactive.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Abrams and written by Jonathan Nolan ( The Dark Knight, Person of Interest ) and Lisa Joy ( Pushing Daisies ) will actually put VR front and center during the show, one thing’s for sure, HBO isn’t being shy about using the immersive technology to promote their ten-episode season premiering next month.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. The final part of the mission has been live streamed, and people were also able to watch it in immersive 360 formats or in 2D in a VR environment like ENGAGE to feel more connected with the historical event.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2016

Sound is probably the second most important part of creating a compelling immersive VR experience, but it’s also usually put off to the end as an afterthought. Here’s the highlights from the Sundance panel on Immersive Sound for Virtual Reality. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2019

I’ve returned to Italy, but there is still so much I have to tell you about the Sandbox Immersive Festival in Qingdao! Utilising stereoscopic 360 video , photogrammetry, 3D modeling, and archive the viewer enters the world of the estate from its birth in 1960’s , through its decline and up to its controversial regeneration today.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. Or you can get photoreal capture of live subjects and live environments, but you’re stuck with the tyranny of 360 video. What we’re trying to do is bring the best of both.”

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. You don’t even need a 360 camera– you can capture a spherical photo with a panoramic photo app. Keep an eye out for the Compass icon, which will mark the 360 photos in your newsfeed.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 2, 2016

VixenVR has taken the years of game development experience within the company and used the Unreal engine to create a penthouse style wet dream of interactive VR reminiscent of something out of Saints Row. The thing that is most impressive about Temptation Towers is the immersion.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The immersive story is different for everyone, and was built with Wevr’s VR character AI framework. In addition to her 360 video for Stonemilker, exhibit-goers can check out Black Lake, Mouth Mantra (get inside Björk’s mouth!),

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

These developers make impressive 360 videos 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. The process was quick and simple enough that it didn’t break the immersion of the demo itself.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2018

Henry for Oculus Rift is a little masterpiece of graphical optimizations : this short movie has an amazing quality and is all rendered in real time by Unreal Engine. And the final judgment is that the Rift version is obviously better : it is more realistic and more immersive. All the house is amazingly furnished.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Or Unreal if that’s your language. on immersion and presence , or somewhere in that nature (I might be off by a single point). What that means is that when you increase immersion, it does increase presence, but not at an extremely high level , which I believe matches anecdotally what we’ve seen over the years.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

Maybe the highlight of today is that the company is releasing VRWorks Audio and 360 Video software development kits. With this move NVIDIA is making VR more immersive, and VR development easier. GPU Technology Conference 2017 is premier, NVIDIA just announced first set of VR news coming from the conference.

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Digitalnauts

MARCH 23, 2022

I managed to see “most” XR projects and companies and what they were showcasing (including some 360 videos, lidar scan with an artistic touch , AR and VR as well).?It “ “ There were also a few fully immersive exhibitions powered by amazing tech (Spatial, Unity, MeowWolf, Dell, DC, Porsche…), which was great to see.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Greg is the chief operating officer at Neutral Digital, an end-to-end immersive content creator, focusing on the luxury travel sector. We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Just just a quick overview.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Greg is the chief operating officer at Neutral Digital, an end-to-end immersive content creator, focusing on the luxury travel sector. We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Just just a quick overview.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

I think we built a reputation in the immersive technology space. And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And I won't talk anymore about that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

I think we built a reputation in the immersive technology space. And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And I won't talk anymore about that.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But what we proved with those is that you can have this small phone attachment and you can simply and easily capture, edit, and share photos and videos in 360 to social media without ever having to pull out the microSD card from your camera. But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved. Is that correct? Alan: Minimum.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But what we proved with those is that you can have this small phone attachment and you can simply and easily capture, edit, and share photos and videos in 360 to social media without ever having to pull out the microSD card from your camera. But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved. Is that correct? Alan: Minimum.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 12, 2020

Or is this taken from like a 360 video type of thing? But our next project is going to be a mine tour, where we'll have them fully immersed in a whole mine situation, so lots of stuff to come with that. So did you guys build this in Unreal or Unity or.? Or is this taken from like a 360 video type of thing?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 12, 2020

Or is this taken from like a 360 video type of thing? But our next project is going to be a mine tour, where we'll have them fully immersed in a whole mine situation, so lots of stuff to come with that. So did you guys build this in Unreal or Unity or.? Or is this taken from like a 360 video type of thing?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 12, 2020

Or is this taken from like a 360 video type of thing? But our next project is going to be a mine tour, where we'll have them fully immersed in a whole mine situation, so lots of stuff to come with that. So did you guys build this in Unreal or Unity or.? Or is this taken from like a 360 video type of thing?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And we work together to sort of use those technologies within the immersive experience area. And I 100 per cent believe that the immersive space is just like the web space or the mobile space, in the sense it will overtake everything, and there’ll be no opportunity to say “no” if you want to stay competitive.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And we work together to sort of use those technologies within the immersive experience area. And I 100 per cent believe that the immersive space is just like the web space or the mobile space, in the sense it will overtake everything, and there’ll be no opportunity to say “no” if you want to stay competitive.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

I think we built a reputation in the immersive technology space. And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And I won't talk anymore about that.

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VeeR VR

JUNE 13, 2018

3D modelers and animators have great transferable skills in producing an immersive experience for the next generation of content consumers. This video covers details of how you should position the camera and what aperture, render resolution, etc. you should use to produce the best possible 360-degree content from Blender.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But what we proved with those is that you can have this small phone attachment and you can simply and easily capture, edit, and share photos and videos in 360 to social media without ever having to pull out the microSD card from your camera. But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved. Is that correct? Alan: Minimum.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. And what some companies have done is actually flooded a real home and then created 360 video of that home. A lot of the immersive content today has to go through a full production with 360 video recording. It was crazy. It was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. platform for creating even more immersive–?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. platform for creating even more immersive–?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. platform for creating even more immersive–?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2023

They are not CGI concerts (a la Ariana Grande on Fortnite), or pure 180-360 videos (like the concerts that Meta was used to do inside Oculus Venues), but something in the middle: 180 degrees 3DOF experiences that mix a stereo recording of the singers together with CGI elements.

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