VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Kaleidoscope is a startup dedicated to curating the best in virtual reality film, art, games, and immersive experiences. They first made their mark with the Kaleidoscope Film Festival in 2015, compiling an early group of artists, developers and directors in Los Angeles. DOES NOT EXIST, by JOHN HENDICOTT & GAWAIN LIDDIARD.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today, Oculus is announcing that the groundbreaking virtual reality short film, Lost , is coming to the Samsung Gear VR. For its debut on the less-powerful Gear VR headset, the project has been repurposed as a 360 video rather than a full, PC-powered, VR experience that allows for robust features like positional tracking.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 22, 2016

This app will be available for free download immediately and grants PS VR users access to, “ Jaunt ’s entire catalog – including more than 150 high-quality and award-winning, immersive VR experiences spanning travel, sports, music, film, horror and more,” according to a release.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

The concept of using head-mounted cameras to track facial movement has been in development since the early ’90s, and although it later found practical application in the film and video game industries, giving animated characters a more human touch , it seems virtual reality is poised to bring technology to the consumer market in a big way.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

” The theater refreshes its films once a month, and offers diverse content packages, including horror films, animations, and documentaries. According to Samhoud, horror films are the most popular films at the theater, followed by animations. The company also ran VR films in a pop-up theater in Copenhagen in June.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Plus, you get next-gen electrochromic film built into the lenses, for automatic dimming and light adjustment. Plus, unlike many other AR glasses, these specs come with built-in hand and head tracking, for immersive interactivity.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

” But because of VR’s integrated head tracking technology, gaining revenue from ads is going to be a bit different. People actually have to look at the ads. “Accordingly, the multiplied effect of effective impressions and verified viewings will bring you higher advertising revenue!

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Highlights of today’s remarkable announcements include: CieAR is unveiling its new AR film platform which enables a unique and immersive film experience in real space and time with life-sized 3D virtual characters. www.ciear.ca. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com. link] twnkls is showcasing new mobile AR applications and solutions.

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RealVision VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This brings up the question: Why aren’t the OTT apps offering stereoscopic 3D versions of films when available, that are perfect for such immersive viewing platforms? Before the pandemic hit, I’d shot an episode for one of India’s well know Studio and OTT platform; Alt Balaji.

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Headjack

OCTOBER 2, 2015

On top of that we believe that gaming and 360º film will grow closer together, or even merge in the upcoming years. We even have built-in support for subtitles, as well as eye/head-tracking data so you can optimize your scenes. To get the app working properly took us months of development and testing. Please, no more rendering!

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Doc-Ok

JUNE 3, 2016

The above video, having been filmed on a desktop system, does a pretty good job of showing how interactions work, but does not really show how each user sees the other users’ avatars. It’s quite something to have a face-to-face conversation with a miniaturized human who is standing on the palm of one’s hand.

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Doc-Ok

JUNE 8, 2016

And that’s why I had to fire up the time machine again, and dust off an even older video of mine: Figure 2 : VR Quake 3 Arena Map Viewer , uploaded to YouTube on February 26th, 2007 (but filmed about a year earlier than that, and showing software developed in mid-2005 — holy cow, I still had some hair back then!).

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

Now you can film wherever you want, even on a soccer pitch, and then simply apply the pre-calibrated stitch template to get a perfectly aligned result! Cinematic VR requires radically new ways of thinking about filming. We do not want to simply exchange a regular camera for a VR camera and use head-tracking as a gimmick.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. So, you know where people are looking; you can really get an incredible amount of data back from the headsets, as well as deliver the content to the viewer. There’s another three weeks of work.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. So, you know where people are looking; you can really get an incredible amount of data back from the headsets, as well as deliver the content to the viewer. There’s another three weeks of work.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. I think just something so simple as a 360 video -- which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that's for 8k cameras -- and then being able to overlay the data that you need.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Demos included several games, a Harry Potter experience tying into the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them , a dedicated YouTube app and a Street View application. Head tracking, app selection, and overall performance inside View were all top notch.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

VR also dominated the pop culture, featuring prominently in films like “Johnny Mnemonic,” “Lawnmower Man” and “Virtuosity.” It’s easy to see how, in the early 1960s, such a system could be viewed as a logical next step beyond the film and television of the day.

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