Road to VR

MAY 6, 2017

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. a five minute film could cost $40,000 to $100,000 just to stitch). Guest Article by Armando Kirwin.

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

Different methods involve different VR technology and are useful for different kinds of projects. Glassbox has just announced their newest VR technology, the DragonFly plugin. The virtual reality toolset makes it easier than ever to create VR content from live film. That’s where Glassbox’s VR technology comes in.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

To learn more about the collaboration as well as each festival’s unique approach, I caught up with Michael Swierczynski, Director of NewImages Festival; Guillaume Esmiol, Deputy Director of Cannes’ Marché du Film; and Loren Hammonds, Vice President of Immersive Programming of the Tribeca Festival. The XR community are really experts on that.”

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VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2017

The New Zealand native is responsible for some of the medium’s most technologically groundbreaking work, including the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises. The 1:30 minute demo apparently operates on a specialized version of ARKit that runs a plugin, which easily integrates the software into Unreal Engine 4.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2020

This is the same motion capture solution used on blockbuster films like Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker , Avengers: Infinity War , and The Wolverine , as well as hit games such as Creed: Rise to Glory and Counter Strike. . Legend conducted his performance live in-studio wearing an Xsens MVN Animate Motion Capture System.

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VRScout

JULY 23, 2019

Available for demo July 28th – August 1st at the Immersive Pavilion, Undersea harnesses the power of the Magic Leap One, as well as Unreal Engine 4 and Vulcan 3.1 mobile, to transport users to a photorealistic undersea environment featuring life-like animated sea life inside a dynamically generated coral reef biome.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Others will focus on XR technology in entertainment, including XR art, gaming, media, and location-based entertainment. This year, over 80 XR technology companies will be in attendance to exhibit their latest and greatest tech. The Auggie Awards for XR Technology. creative director BC Biermann. AWE USA 2019 Day 2.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Last year, the inaugural VR On The Lot brought together major players from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Europe, and China for a two-day exploration of the intersection between entertainment and technology. Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2019

Using the Insta360 Titan , the companies recently released 11K cinematic 360-degree camera, Feimster—who also happens to play one of the zany mascots on the show—filmed the ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ audience for one minute before having them stand up. The reaction has been unreal.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with the original ‘Unreal Dev Grants’ fund announced back in 2015. In many ways, those grants have reflected Epic and Unreal Engine’s early and consistently prominent support of VR since the early days of VR’s latest resurgence.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It will also use interactive reconstructions of historic spaces, extended reality (XR) technologies, and natural language processing (NLP) for interacting with Dr Knobloch’s digital twin. As those of us who survived pass on, these tools, this technology will continue to be our voice and our testimony.”

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The event, hosted by AIXR, aims to recognize outstanding achievements in VR technology. Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. The VR Awards recognize innovations in VR technology through twelve categories. VR Film of the Year. What Is AIXR?

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AR Insider

APRIL 23, 2021

The technology shouldn’t be forced into a narrow definition of graphics that overlay the physical world. The latest augmentation that came to our attention isn’t a new technology but one that isn’t often associated with AR: the growing trend of LED walls in film production. ILM specifically uses Unreal Engine.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 27, 2022

Users can view and edit their captured data in graphics engines such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Many firms are adopting photogrammetry for a range of use cases, with companies such as RUAS and Optelos employing Lidar-powered surveying technologies to provide rich RT3D data of physical locations.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 13, 2019

FCG’s telltale combination of CGI and film, shot with a 360-degree camera, is then projected on walls, ceiling, and floor. The idea of using light and sound to create an unreal experience was also used in the Unreal Garden this summer. Throughout the experiences, audio helps to take visitors on their journey. “

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The experience was built in 1:1 scale within Unreal Engine. You can check out a short behind the scenes below: Trying the experience for himself, astronaut Tim Peake reflects: “Exploring space is something that motivates a lot of young people to enter careers in science and technology.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2017

Developed by The Future Group and FreemantleMedia (the company responsible for American Idol and X Factor ), Lost In Time is a Norwegian game show that uses interactive mixed reality technology combined with a customized green screen studio to transport contestants to different landscapes scattered across time and space.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 19, 2023

Virtual production (VP) is a new technology revolutionizing the film, media, and broadcast industries. The emerging solution space uses immersive technology to create realistic environments for actors to perform in, saving time and money on production. So you can save every single scene.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). We invite all industry technology providers and stakeholders to join us in this meaningful program.”. Graz University of Technology, Austria. image courtesy VR First.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

CBS Sports rendered AR graphics in real time using Unreal Engine and motion picture capture as the basis for a virtual production pipeline. Consumers in 2021 carry technologies like 5G, LiDAR scanners, and photorealistic AR in their pockets every day and interact with AR regularly via social media. And demand has never been higher.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. For entertainment, we’re largely using the same techniques of framing and timing from film, but adapted a little bit to make it feel better in VR. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development.

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Neoglyphic Entertainment, a storytelling company built for the digital age, has released a comprehensive feature updates to its award-winning, cross-platform, real-time fur and fiber technology, NeoFur. NeoFur’s licensing options are aimed at providing access to the technology for individuals, indie developers and AAA studios.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

While that means the Auggie winners were finally announced, there was also other great content, including a lot of discussion around the future of XR technology. The Future of XR Technology. Many of the talks and panel discussions at AWE’s final day appropriately looked to the future of XR technology and experience. The Auggies.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

VR film “Marshall From Detroit” gives Sundance attendees a closer look at the city responsible for one of hip hop’s greatest acts. We wanted to take the ‘reality’ out of VR and cook it down into something more unreal, but also truthful.”. For over the past twenty-three years, Marshall Mathers (a.k.a

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It can be used as an overall term to describe other technologies similar to, but different from, an actual Virtual Reality experience. It includes Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies. VR is the most widely known of these technologies. What is Virtual Reality? What is Mixed Reality?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents. This means that now with Unity you can create visually stunning VR experiences that before you could obtain just by using Unreal. This is so sad.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

It will launch with VR controllers, and will be expensive because it contains a lot of new technology. This is understandable from a business standpoint, but hearing a CTO, so the supreme tech guy of a company, the one who should be excited the most about technology, saying this is a bit sad. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Ever since Epic Games opened its Unreal Engine 4 technology to the world, new use cases have been coming in fast and furious. The latest example of just how far real-time video game engine technology has come will be on display at GDC 2017 this week. That electric car is the brainchild of The Mill.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 14, 2021

Story telling is increasingly blurring the line between the physical and virtual worlds, according to presenters at the just-concluded this year’s Technology + Storytelling: Engaging The Immersive Future event organized by NYC Media Lab. The technology is getting good enough to get us to the other side of the uncanny valley , he added.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Today, ARWall, a virtual production product and services merchant, updated its augmented reality effects (ARFX) Pro Unreal Engine Plugin to streamline workflows for end-users incorporating immersive backdrops for media productions. New Features. ARWall Establishes a New Virtual Production Studio.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The art gallery-inspired VR series starts off with a campaign that immerses you in the problems facing the world’s largest tuna fishery and how technology can catalyze change. The Nature Conservancy teamed up with VFX leaders MPC to create the VR experience.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. This week some outlets have reported that startup “Humane” has received $30M of funding to create some new technology, dubbed as “the next iPhone”. The change made by one user in its program (e.g. Learn more.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 20, 2017

Technicolor printed its last frame of film in 2012” Tim Sernoff (Deputy SVP of Technicolor) remarked in a press briefing. A significant milestone for a company that has been pioneering film technology for the past one hundred years. In 2017, Technicolor opened its doors to press and guests to unveil its Experience Center (TEC).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

It makes me feel like a hero from one of The Terminator films. We learned a lot about pushing the rendering technology with it, but because of the constraints there was just a lot that we wanted to get done that we couldn’t get done. “ Bullet Train was made on a short timeframe with a small group,” said Whiting.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

“To get to really great VR, you need a whole new set of tools and technology to make the content,” said Jason Rosenthal, the CEO of Lytro. Facebook has shown a new interest in the very same technology this week. Maybe not 100 percent, but more than other technologies being used right now.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Douglas went away from Hollywood to create this super-studio with all the cutting-edge technology (like robotic camera systems, computers, etc…). In the last 5 years, I’ve seen another movie having such an impact, but not in the mainstream audience, but in the technology sector: “Her” by Spike Jonze.

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