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Disney Invests in VR Arcade The VOID, Epic Games in 2017 Accelerator

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Among the 11 picked for the company’s 2017 Accelerator is location-based VR arcade The Void and Unreal Engine creator Epic Games. Companies to come out of Disney’s Accelerator include the toy company Sphero , 360 streaming platform Littlestar , 360 video production studio Jaunt and modular electronics producer littleBits.

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Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More

Road to VR

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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SXSW Reviews vol. 2: Hands-on with AmazeVR, Beatday, and The Sick Rose

The Ghost Howls

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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Why The 360 Film Industry is in the Midst of a Reboot – Part 1

Road to VR

Powerful incumbents enjoyed this tremendous barrier to entry until the transition to digital technology democratized the playing field. When we started making cinematic 360 video a few years ago there was little pre-existing technology for us to use so we had to undertake the costly process of building our own.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents. This means that now with Unity you can create visually stunning VR experiences that before you could obtain just by using Unreal. Support the Skarredghost.

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Jaguar Lets You Feel Wimbledon With Andy Murray VR Experience

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The experience was developed in Unreal Engine, using 4D character scanning and a specialist array of 125 Digital SLR cameras to capture the hero tennis player and 24 other hero characters, and motion capture technology for animation. Narrated by Murray himself, #FeelWimbledon was created by UK virtual reality studio, Hammerhead VR.