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Google Tango Brings Mobile 3D Photography to Life

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If you look at the evolution of capturing the world around us, it started with painting, then photography, then film and video. But the world is three-dimensional, and so 3D capture is the next big frontier in reflecting our surroundings. We believe 3D capture is going to be a major driver for VR adoption.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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FUNDING WRAPUP: GEOCV RAISES $700K TO CAPTURE APARTMENTS IN 3D: New York, NY, based company GeoCV has raised $700K to continue progress on bringing its mobile-based 3D scanning application to the real estate market.

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Become the Virus in Zero Days VR: A Revolutionary Immersive Documentary

VRScout

The documentary was based on a feature-length film by Alex Gibney, called Zero Days as well. Essentially Scatter was asked to collaborate with Alex Gibney on the feature film, the documentary, where he wanted to wait to make his informant anonymous in a way that was native to the world of code and the language of code.

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Megan Thee Stallion VR Concert Experience Available Now On Quest

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This isn’t your regular, pre-filmed concert stream projected in VR, but instead a custom-built world you journey through, watching Megan perform a selection of hits right in front of you. The best part of Enter the Hottieverse is that Megan herself is displayed in 3D and integrated into the virtual ‘Hottieverse’ world.

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Avatar Technology From USC Captures Your Body In 20 Minutes

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Easy 3D Avatars. The graphics lab at ICT captures high-quality digital faces for film with special (and expensive) scanning equipment. Shapiro runs a research group there called the Character Animation Simulation Research Group and one of its goals is to create a digital person that can behave like a real one.

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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

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With the tools, creatives can receive comprehensive, end-to-end capturing solutions with one of the world’s most capable and advanced 3D capturing and reconstruction systems. Announced on Monday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 event , the partnership will offer content creators a trove of solutions for their volumetric video needs.

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#1199: “Whipped Cream: The Dark” Interactive Music Video Blending Volumetric Capture with Spatial Locomotion

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The affordances of film cutting allowed for some more robust and deliberate worldbuilding that I had missed within the immersive translation. So overall, this piece is an experiment in user agency, environmental exploration, and how to seamlessly tie in some of these volumetric assets into a more embodied experience.

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