Filming Magic Leap Motion Capture 
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Andy Serkis, the actor-director you may recognize for his award-winning performances as Gollum in the Lord of The Rings film franchise, is lending his likeness to a new AR creation for Magic Leap One headset in what The Hollywood Reporter describes as an “orc-like creature.” Image courtesy Magic Leap.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
The Oscar nominated actors performance-capture studio partners with Magic Leap to bring fresh content to their MR platform. With credits including legendary franchises like The Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, and Star Wars , Andy Serkis has proven himself a legend within the world of motion capture technology.
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Road to VR
JANUARY 5, 2017
Magic Leap is a mystery. Now founder and CEO Rony Abovitz offers a bit more in his recent blog post entitled Creativity Matters , where he speaks about some of the changes coming to the company in 2017, and for what it’s worth, says it’ll be “a big year for Magic Leap.”
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 3, 2025
The controller of Magic Leap 2 features onboard cameras that perform inside-out tracking, too. Motion capture If you want a cheap system for motion capture you can use Vive Trackers and full-body VR to record animations of yourself moving.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 31, 2018
He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. Magic Leap glasses.
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Wired called Penrose’s first project, Allumette (2016) “the first VR film masterpiece.”. Back in November, we covered the release of Fable’s “Wolves In The Walls” on Oculus Quest, a film in which Lucy, the AI-driven character, was the star. Immerse 3D is available for smartphones, HoloLens, and Magic Leap. Griffith of VR.”
Upload VR
OCTOBER 11, 2022
In film, you feel comfortably immersed in the story looking at something like the cute Baymax robot but constantly distracted looking at more human-like faces in heavily motion captured works like the 2004 film The Polar Express. That’s kind of like an existential requirement of this technology.”.
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