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VR Film Festivals Look To Inspire Fresh New Talent For Hollywood

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Japan’s very first VR-focused international film festival, Beyond the Frame Festival , is currently underway thanks to a partnership with HTC Vive. The festival, which runs from February 12 through February 21 , will showcase VR films from artists all around the world. Beat // Image Credit: Keisuke Itoh.

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VIVE X Startup Mindesk Secures $900K to Create VR Multiuser Design Software

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The company joined VIVE X, HTC’s global VR/AR accelerator program, for its second batch back in 2017, which included investments and mentorship for a total of 33 startups working in the areas of software and hardware for both augmented and virtual reality. Mindesk was founded in Bari, Italy.

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Spatial Beats: Another One Bites the Dust

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Spacetop G1 has been cancelled in favor of a software approach, while Meta unveils Movie Gen and Vision Pro gets its first native film. These and other items in XR and AI realms from Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Blackmagic’s New 8K Camera for Apple Immersive Video is Pre-ordering Now for $30,000

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Early versions of Blackmagic’s URSA Cine Immersive are likely the cameras used to film Apple Immersive Video content currently available on the headset. Apple Immersive Video is a 180 3D video format intended for playback on Apple Vision Pro. Though certainly expensive, this is in-line with many other high-end cinema cameras.

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How ‘The Lion King’ Was Filmed Using Virtual Reality

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Although The Lion King (2019) might have garnered a tepid reception from film critics, there’s no debating that Jon Favreau’s photorealistic remake of the 1994 original film roars in the visual department. “Evolving the workflow was crucial,” says Francesco Giordana, realtime software architect at MPC.

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Why The 360 Film Industry is in the Midst of a Reboot – Part 1

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The 360 film industry is still young and it’s maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 22 360 film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they’re going, and why. In addition to engineering limitations, there was another major hurdle: software.

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Shot on Lytro’s Light-field Camera, ‘Hallelujah’ Is a Stunning Mix of Volumetric Film and Audio

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Hallelujah is a new experience by VR film studio Within that’s captured using Lytro’s latest Immerge light-field camera which captures volumetric footage that makes for a much more immersive experience than traditional 360 video. Hallelujah was that experience, and now I can talk about it.

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