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Amazon today announced the launch of Prime Video VR on Oculus Quest, Go, and Gear VR. In addition to bringing the entire Prime Video catalog onto the headsets, Amazon is also for the first time adding VR content to its Prime Video library. The app is available on Oculus Quest , Go , and Gear VR for free.
I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Or Unreal if that’s your language.
The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. In the last 12 months, the Facebook brand has become increasingly visible and involved with the Oculus subsidiary. Wednesday, April 19.
“What you don’t hear much about is what users like and don’t like about today’s VR video apps.” ” To test reactions to 360video, Fishbowl used 10 apps: Littlstar, Jaunt, OculusVideo, Wevr, Sky, Netflix, Within, Hulu, Discovery VR, and VRideo.
YouTube tells you where people are looking in your 360videos AND embraces 180 degree video, Google’s 180 degree camera, the Meta-Cookie project gets weird and alters your taste, and Intel leans into sports in a big virtual way…. It turns out that 75% of people watch only the front 90% of 360videos.
This integration is still very rough, and so: It works only with Oculus and WMR headsets (because it requires an OpenXR-compatible runtime); It just lets you see your model , not also modify it. And this is possible because they both have big cash cows: Oculus has Facebook’s advertisement, and Valve has the Steam game store.
At top speed, the creators say the course should take around 35 hours, although they recommend a slower pace, and studying all of the materials and taking one or two lessons each week.
A 2016 YouGov study on travel booking trends sought the opinion of over 10,000 travelers across 21 countries. WellTown is available now on SteamVR and Oculus. According to Puklowski, the team would physically act out what each scene would look like before they developed it in VR. Image Credit: WellingtonNZ.
With over one million active monthly users of the Samsung GearVR, millions of Google Cardboard units and high-end Oculus Rift and HTC Vive pre-orders, Smithson believes that brands that are early to develop unique and engaging content for VR and will have a huge advantage over their competition.
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. You have to think about this when starting up your business.
This is an interesting case study for VR content because it’s a crossover of several genres, bridging news reporting, documentary filmmaking, historical narrative and adventure. We want to create high quality mobile VR pieces that give audiences experiences they can’t find anywhere else,” says Watson.
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. percent average over the last three games – right around the time he started using the virtual reality trainer to study defenses and make decisions.”
I didn’t do the heavy research as I normally do before The New York Film Festival (mainly to avoid the way too heady indie films that seem to exist for the pleasures of film study professors and festival juries). I then got in line for the 360videos, somewhat defeated by that experience. Do you have any room?” What IS this?”
Today, we’re going to be looking at just some of the most amazing XR travel case studies from the last few years, to give you an insight into what travel brands can accomplish. The tools included VR apps built for Oculus headsets which help to train team members to deal with complex guest situations. Varjo and Arksen.
Whether you’re working on a 360video or real-time rendered content, these tips will help you to understand best practices from the cutting edge of VR.” ” Presented by: Michael Antonov (Chief Software Architect) at Oculus, Andrew Mo (Product Manager) at Oculus. April 19th. Creating Social Presence in VR.
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Therefore we decided to analyze what some of the legendary VR video producers were doing to solve this problem…. Studying Chris Milk. We downloaded the VRSE app for both Cardboard and Gear VR for “study purposes”. When we opened their videos in Mediainfo , we noticed several things: h.264 Oculus Rift. Resolution.
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.
The more creation-focused educators will be thinking about using platforms like CoSpaces and Tilt Brush to create the worlds of the stories that they are studying – but I am focused on transposing these classic tales into the immersive medium of virtual reality. There are some 360° videos related to books on YouTube e.g. [link].
The 360-degree experience was filmed by Practical Magic in cooperation with 20th Century Fox and New Regency. The theatrical activation will feature kiosks with Oculus Rift headsets powered by Alienware Aurora PCs using AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics cards. Here’s how they made it happen. 2 and Jan.
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. But we have seen some good results from the dev guys testing our stuff on Quest -- Oculus Quest.
So, normal 360video allows you to kind of look around from the point of the camera, but what you guys have developed is a way to give, kind of, more presence by adding that ability to move up and down, and left and right. Alvin: This is a brand new study – it has not actually been published yet. Can you maybe speak to that?
So, normal 360video allows you to kind of look around from the point of the camera, but what you guys have developed is a way to give, kind of, more presence by adding that ability to move up and down, and left and right. Alvin: This is a brand new study – it has not actually been published yet. Can you maybe speak to that?
And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.
And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.
The telegram is taken by his assassins just so word does not get out that audiences have been cheated so far by crappy 2D 360video masquerading as VR. I just came out of a “VR theater” and got teleported back to my study-room. What am I talking about? The first VR noir piece par excellence has been made.
And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and-- including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360's too hard. I've spent a week just exporting this video.
More info (Jon Prosser’s video) More info (Apple’s proprietary QR Codes) More info (Steve Jobs AR glasses). Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. Happy birthday, Oculus Quest! Other relevant news.
There’s so many physiological aspects that we’re able to collect incredible amounts of data, and so, by collecting this data, all sorts of trainers will have unprecedented levels of data around the person they’re studying. Oculus Quest is coming out. It’s really exciting. Antony: Yeah.
We're going to be discussing going from PoCs, pilots, and case studies to full scale deployments. But today, the biggest thing, the biggest trend that we see is moving from the PC based platforms -- the HTC Vives and the Oculus Rifts -- to the Android based platforms like Quest and Vive Focus Plus. Dave, welcome to the show.
We're going to be discussing going from PoCs, pilots, and case studies to full scale deployments. But today, the biggest thing, the biggest trend that we see is moving from the PC based platforms -- the HTC Vives and the Oculus Rifts -- to the Android based platforms like Quest and Vive Focus Plus. Dave, welcome to the show.
So we’ve got an update from HTC and Oculus on what’s the state of the hardware. And those kind of case study examples where, “Well, this is what we tried. So let’s talk about who else is gonna be there. Kathryn: Yes. So, I mean, we’ve got a couple of big players everyone’s really interested to see.
There's so many physiological aspects that we're able to collect incredible amounts of data, and so, by collecting this data, all sorts of trainers will have unprecedented levels of data around the person they're studying. It's funny, because for years and years, we've studied people's movements, but we've never had anything this accurate.
” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. I was amazed.
During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.
There’s so many physiological aspects that we’re able to collect incredible amounts of data, and so, by collecting this data, all sorts of trainers will have unprecedented levels of data around the person they’re studying. Oculus Quest is coming out. It’s really exciting. Antony: Yeah.
As someone who studied film and media in college, how has your education shaped your career? What advice do you have for young and aspiring 360/VR filmmakers? Film school always felt like studying history: the rules were written by these folks (mostly white men), way back then. Viva La Evolución!
We're going to be discussing going from PoCs, pilots, and case studies to full scale deployments. But today, the biggest thing, the biggest trend that we see is moving from the PC based platforms -- the HTC Vives and the Oculus Rifts -- to the Android based platforms like Quest and Vive Focus Plus. Dave, welcome to the show.
Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. You have video that you’re doing; maybe think about how 360video could enhance the experience, or bring it a step further. I have read that the case study, and I will put it in the show notes for anybody who wants to read it.
Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. You have video that you’re doing; maybe think about how 360video could enhance the experience, or bring it a step further. I have read that the case study, and I will put it in the show notes for anybody who wants to read it.
Alan: Yeah, we got to try your incredible experiences, mostly in the field of 360video. I’m not sure whether I’m allowed to use it as a case study publicly, so I’m being a little discreet, but a huge company. Alan: Yeah, we got to try your incredible experiences, mostly in the field of 360video.
Alan: Yeah, we got to try your incredible experiences, mostly in the field of 360video. I’m not sure whether I’m allowed to use it as a case study publicly, so I’m being a little discreet, but a huge company. Alan: Yeah, we got to try your incredible experiences, mostly in the field of 360video.
And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. Sometimes that happens outside and and people-- someone you've never met and never knew will torpedo the deal because they think, "Oh, my son had an Oculus Go and had a terrible experience. Just take 360video, for example.
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