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‘Ready Player One’ Actors Filmed OASIS Scenes In VR

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Spielberg immerses his cast in a virtual set while filming certain VR scenes. It turns out VR played a more integral role in Spielberg’s upcoming Ready Player One film than we previously thought. It was really an out of body experience filming this movie. There’s the DJ.’ It’s very hard to really express what that was like.”. “It

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What’s the future of SteamVR tracking?

The Ghost Howls

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. Object Tracking Film production using HTC Vive Trackers to track the cameras (Image by HTC) You can attach a Vive Tracker to an object, to have it reliably tracked for you in VR.

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VRLA’s John Root on AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

Road to VR

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 1: Everything you need to know about Vive Trackers

The Ghost Howls

base stations tracking that I’d not previously heard about: More compatible : base stations co-exist with your other IR devices and have better immunity from depth cameras and motion capture systems. Film production using HTC Vive Trackers (Image by HTC). According to Valve, there is another advantage of 2.0 Vive Pro) .

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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. This will allow users to capture and edit content from the system, stream compressed content, eliminate quality loss, and other options, under the same pipeline.

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Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney Partnership

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It also debuted numerous creator tools, including a motion capture (mocap) system for small content creators. The app allowed iOS users to scan QR codes to watch AR visualisations on short films the company produced. It also released LED displays for XR stages and other performance platforms.

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Avatar Technology From USC Captures Your Body In 20 Minutes

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The graphics lab at ICT captures high-quality digital faces for film with special (and expensive) scanning equipment. The research group started testing with Microsoft’s Kinect four years ago, doing some body scanning and facial scanning. Easy 3D Avatars. “What other elements of us need to be embedded?