Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

While VR video portals like Jaunt , Littlstar , Samsung VR , and others offer a single destination from which to stream many different 360 and VR videos, another popular way to distribute VR video has been as a standalone app, offering more complete control over the experience by the creator.

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AUGUST 13, 2017

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Samsung – Gear VR. Nominees for Interactive VR Media/Film of the Year. The complete list of judges can be found here. Razer – OSVR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Mattel used the event to unveil its VR View-Master in Mexico, while Samsung and Unity were also some of the event’s main sponsors. Nicolas Alcalá, a well known VR pioneer who crowdfunded his first film project, The Cosmonaut by raising over $500,000 from 5,000 people, also took the stage.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

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. VRLA is happening this year on May 4th and 5th.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it. Tribeca Film Festival is going to happen also in VR. The Tribeca Film Festival is returning both in the physical venue and in VR inside Museum Of Other Realities.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

For the recent Rogue One film, director Gareth Edwards used virtual reality to stage several several scenes. He would load a digital draft of a scene onto the HTC Vive, and then use the virtual world camera to record how he envisioned the film’s camera (the POV of the audience) moving around in that environment.

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

Award-winning independent game studio HappyGiant and Tippett Studio today announced their ground-breaking augmented reality game HoloGrid: Monster Battle has made the transition to virtual reality , and is coming out on the next-generation Samsung Gear VR. USD (regularly $4.99

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The experience was created in honor of the upcoming Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017) film, and will be first made available in Japan and Korea starting January 31 with availability ending July 31, 2017. SEE ALSO Sorry, Internet. The 'Sword Art Online' VR MMO Isn't Real.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. The first episode focuses on Rhinos.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. So the idea is with everything that we’re doing, whether it’s on the pro side or the consumer side, we’re standardizing it to what folks in the traditional film industry are used to.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. So the idea is with everything that we’re doing, whether it’s on the pro side or the consumer side, we’re standardizing it to what folks in the traditional film industry are used to.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt -- which recently just got sold to Verizon -- they had their Jaunt One camera. So the idea is with everything that we're doing, whether it's on the pro side or the consumer side, we're standardizing it to what folks in the traditional film industry are used to.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition. No headphones were used.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Their phones can be used for some low-end VR, via the Cardboard platform from Google, but they haven’t had anything of their own to match the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View headsets. The developer kit works on Unity, Unreal, and Scenekit engines. It supports iPhone 6S or later models.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

They already captured about 8,000 people so far during a five-city tour of Canada with Samsung. Itsme is currently closing their seed investment round and preparing SDKs for Unity and Javascript to let developers use avatars directly in their projects and products.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. Ben: Yeah, and just a lot of cost savings and scalability, too, because when you don't have someone rejigging all your orders just to get it over to film it, yeah, your business can just scale.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. Ben: Yeah, and just a lot of cost savings and scalability, too, because when you don't have someone rejigging all your orders just to get it over to film it, yeah, your business can just scale.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. Ben: Yeah, and just a lot of cost savings and scalability, too, because when you don't have someone rejigging all your orders just to get it over to film it, yeah, your business can just scale.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There are many VR events, conferences, expos and film festivals worth attending, and we've handpicked the best ones with agenda & venue, as well as social media information attached. Give this a read and pick out your favorite ones to visit! It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. This is the same chip of the Samsung S8 and it is not the latest available for VR: Qualcomm has already released the 845 VR reference design. For instance, in Unity, the Oculus Utilities plugin is the same for PC, Go and GearVR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR’s great, because you can just swap out the phones. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. Anne: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR’s great, because you can just swap out the phones. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. Anne: Yeah.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Chaitanya has had a multi-faceted career in the Indian Film & CreativeArtsIndustry for over 17 years. Sandman Studios’ recent work “Free Whale” and “Fresh Out” are officially selected by 74th and 75th Venice Film Festival VR Competition. Eddie has Dir/Prod India’s 1st Award Winning- Stereoscopic VR Short Film-CRACKLE.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

But otherwise we're using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR's great, because you can just swap out the phones. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. You just had to try it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The same element can so be compatible both with Unreal Engine, and Unity, but also Roblox and Minecraft. More info Apple releases its first immersive film: Submerged Apple has just announced a slew of new content arriving on Vision Pro. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Vancouver Film School, Canada. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First. University of Florida, USA.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

10:15 am – 10:45 am | Keynote: The World’s Most Compelling New Experiences (Unity). Tony Parisi | Head of VR/AR Strategy, Unity. Julie Shumaker | Vice President, Business Development, Unity. As a judge for both Shorty Awards and The Emmys he also bridges new digital with traditional film.

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