Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Lytro , the once consumer-facing light field camera company which has recently pivoted to create high-end production tools , has announced a light field rendering software for VR that essentially aims to free developers from the current limitations of real-time rendering.

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2022

YouTube has a lot of 360-degree videos. While they haven’t organized these videos into their own content field (yet) you can search for “360 videos” or “immersive videos” and find quite a lot, usually with special icons on the thumbnail preview to let you know that they’re immersive.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Shooting in 360-degrees. Making 360 videos can be tricky. After battling in the trenches of 360 video production for the past couple years, here are the pieces of advice they’d like to share. 360 pioneers know all too well the cumbersome process of stitching together footage from multiple cameras by hand.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

View your 360° video projects in realtime on a HTC Vive. In a trio of announcements, Apple revealed that Valve would be bringing SteamVR and HTC Vive to the new iMac, Unity and Unreal Engine were coming to Mac, and Final Cut Pro X would finally support VR video editing. The 360° patch removes that pesky tripod with one click.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360 videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. There is always a big debate about 360 videos being VR or not. Some of the big techs are also developing their software and games.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook today announced two new additions to the Surround360 hardware initiative that are poised to make 360 video more immersive. Unveiled at the company’s yearly developer conference, F8, the so-called x24 and x6 cameras are said to capture 360 video with depth information, giving captured video six degrees of freedom (6DoF).

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2017

Pixvana , makers of the cloud-based 360 video creation studio SPIN , today announced that their software services—integrated at the core of Valve’s own Steam 360 Video Player— will be launching today into beta.

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2017

The camera brings multiple perspectives to live videos. Just over one year ago, Facebook unveiled their $30k Surround 360 camera that could capture footage in 3D and render it all out through the company’s software. Now Facebook is announcing the second generation of its Surround 360 design—and this time there’s two cameras.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

However, even with advanced software, creating animations still requires complex skills and consumes a lot of time. They can integrate 360 videos and animation data with ease. Besides the film and gaming industries, it is widely used today in the fields of advertising , education, and construction.

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MAY 10, 2017

Valve Software’s Steam store is the undisputed leader of PC game distribution, though the marketplace is also a portal for buying VR games, software and even traditional movies. Steam’s 360 Video Player is launching in beta today, integrating Pixvana’s SPIN VR video streaming technology for VR videos.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

The creative software company heats up to augmented and virtual reality. Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. Adobe might be the undisputed king of creative software, but they face competition in the VR space.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

The former listing seeks a candidate with “direct experience with implementing and/or designing media file formats,” as well as “experience with VR and 360 video.” ” The latter is looking for someone with “Direct experience with implementing and/or designing VR or 360 video playback systems.”

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2017

A total of 17 lenses (eight stereo pairs aligned horizontal, and one centered vertical lens), and 6 internal microphones allows for capturing 3D 360 video and spatial audio. One-step stitching and control software, provided by Samsung, allows for 3D 360 livestreaming up to a claimed 4,096 × 2,048 at 30 FPS per eye.

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MARCH 2, 2017

The portability and affordability of mobile VR is inspiring developers from all walks to create games, educational apps, or even productivity software for the platform. Finwe Ltd is a Finnish company that was founded in 2006 by a group of research scientists and the company’s focus is on high-quality mobile software.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Jaunt, the cinematic VR company that pivoted to AR last year, today announced it has sold its software, technology, and “certain other assets” to American telecom Verizon. The Jaunt team has built leading-edge software and we are excited for its next chapter with Verizon.”.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Nikon’s foray into 360° video continued at the ‘Nikon Innovation Forum: The 360° Video Revolution’ event in NYC last week. There the company’s recently released KeyMission 360 action camera was the centerpiece among non-360° action cameras of the same series.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Apple may not hold the majority of the PC market, but among certain sectors its hardware and software are nearly industry standards. Apple is positioning the new iMac Pro—available this Thursday starting at a cool $5,000—as an ideal machine for VR content creators (both 360 video and real-time).

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VRScout

MAY 16, 2016

The first program, the 360 Filmmakers Challenge, partners nine San Francisco Bay Area high schools with professional filmmakers to create 3-5 minute 360° films about their communities. Students reviewing their 360 video footage. Teams will start their filmmaking journey at a two-day bootcamp at Facebook HQ, July 26-27.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2018

Plex, the media server software that lets you stream your own video, music, and photos to a bevy of devices, is coming to VR with its latest Daydream app, Plex VR. In the VR app, you can resize and reposition content windows, bookmark a show by creating interactive magazine-like objects, and view 3D and 360 video.

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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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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

See Also: Metaverse and Investing - Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 2: Software and Infrastructure. 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).

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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. XpertVR builds custom applications, which are compatible with different VR headsets and software platforms. XpertVR was founded by Drew MacNeil and Evan Sitler. XpertVR team.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

With Spaces , Microsoft is aiming to provide point-and-click simplicity by letting users create immersive environments on the fly by using media such as 3D assets, 360 photos, and 360 video—all of which is stored in SharePoint folders. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Not all ‘Sneaks’ make it to release, but Project CloverVR has, as it addresses a fundamental problem with editing 360 video or other immersive media in Premiere. The VR interface was originally previewed at last year’s Adobe MAX in San Diego , one of 11 experimental technologies demonstrated as part of the ‘Sneaks’ session.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2017

Hallelujah is a new experience by VR film studio Within that’s captured using Lytro’s latest Immerge light-field camera which captures volumetric footage that makes for a much more immersive experience than traditional 360 video.

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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. I hope HP will be able to fix this in future software updates. Are you interested?

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MARCH 19, 2025

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 didn't end up shipping. This comes after multiple reports LG will make future Quest Pro headsets.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Then there’s the company’s Volume Tracer software which renders synthetic light-fields from CG content. And finally there’s the company’s playback software which aims to enable the highest-fidelity playback on each device. Image courtesy Lytro.

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OCTOBER 8, 2016

In its place Facebook will offer an integrated hardware and software system focused entirely on delivering a high quality VR experience that doesn’t disconnect you from the real world. In fact, it may even connect you more frequently with friends. “The productization work that’s being done now is by the core vision team.”

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

Then we here at VRScout followed suit the following month for the second ever 360 live stream , capturing President Obama’s Farewell Address. Now Facebook has opened up Live 360 to everyone (Profiles and Pages). Live 360 Cameras. When it comes to compatible Live 360 cameras, there are handful of choices to choose from.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 18, 2016

Shooting in 360-degrees Making 360 videos can be tricky. After battling in the trenches of 360 video production for the past couple years, here are the pieces of advice they’d like to share. Fortunately for you, cameras and software are being developed to do it automatically. We’re learning as we go.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

While graphically-capable PCs are cheaper than ever thanks to new GPUs and software optimizations, you still need to pony up the cash for a min-spec system ( $699 for an OEM-built machine ). Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Dragon Front Open Beta, from High Voltage Software. Dragon Front’s beta is a first glimpse at High Voltage Software’s anticipated card-battler that features cross-play between the Rift and Gear. A wonderful new 360 degree video from Cirque Du Soleil and Felix and Paul. Price: Free (Rift, Gear).

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Supported assets include 2D media that you can “hang up” around your room, as well as 360 videos and images that you and other users can “enter” once you’re in the room. When you’re ready, select FRAMES from the menu, and select CREATE NEW FRAME. Name it, and enter. Customizing Your Avatar and Meeting Space.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

software update, called Daydream Euphrates, is going to bring along with it some major changes that are set to reach down to the core of the upcoming Android ‘O’ operating system. Daydream’s 2.0 image courtesy Google.

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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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