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Create Your Own Holograms at Home with the Volu iPhone App

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But what about volumetric video, which currently requires multi-camera rigs like those at Microsoft's Mixed Reality Capture studios? with 3D Body Mesh & More, Upgrades Scan as Fashion Assistant On Wednesday, 3D capture startup Volograms released the public beta of its Volu app for iOS.

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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

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Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Arcturus’ solution includes over 100 cameras working simultaneously to capture a still or moving object.

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Alcatel’s New IDOL Smartphone Comes With ‘Windows 10 VR’

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Microsoft revealed a new line of PC-based virtual reality headsets from partner companies that will support its upcoming Windows 10 upgrade, the Creator’s Update. Another Windows Phone, HP’s Windows Phone X3, being used for 3D capture. We’ve reached out to both Alcatel and Microsoft for clarification.

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Here Come The Holograms

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Screen capture of prototype Star Wars AR game for Disney’s Lucasfilm/Lenovo AR headset. As the video below shows, a cinematically real, 3D George Takei is not something that can be made casually. Last June, I met Pete Forde of Itsme at VR Toronto, where he did a realistic 3D capture of me, and then animated it.

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GDC 2017: Hands-On With Microsoft’s First Windows Holographic VR Headset

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I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. I was among a handful of journalists invited to see the internal Microsoft prototype, though I was told photos or videos for my demo would not be allowed.

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Q&A With Matt Bell: How Matterport Started Capturing The Real Estate Market In VR

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Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space. In the same way that photography became an instant automated process to capture moments, we wanted to do the same thing for entire 3D spaces.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.10.15): Meta Avalanche cloud rendering appears on the store, cheaper Apple Vision may cost $2000, and more!

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The reason is that the newest Microsoft laptops feature a neural processing unit (NPU) that improves processing power and battery efficiency when running AR experiences. This means that every laptop will be able to do what the special Spacetop G1 was promising.

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