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Digital Human Presents Live TED Talk

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Roble recorded his likeness in a state-of-the-art “light stage” at the University of Southern California’s Vision and Graphics Lab where an array of cameras and lights captured his face under a variety of lighting conditions. The post Digital Human Presents Live TED Talk appeared first on VRScout. ’ve aged.DigiDoug hasn’t.On

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‘The Under Presents’: Interactive Live Theater For The Oculus Quest

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Tender Claws , a veteran VR developer responsible for Virtual Virtual Reality , are present at this year’s Sundance Film Festival showcasing their own Quest release, The Under Presents , an outlandish narrative-driven social experience that combines interactive theatrical performances with specially-trained live actors.

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Meta’s Next-gen Avatar Presentation Was Too Good to Be True… For Now at Least

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After reaching out to Meta to clarify what tech was used to create that segment, a spokesperson told me the team used common external motion capture tech to drive the movement of the avatars, rather than its own solution running real-time on one of its headsets. Meta is burning the candle on both ends here.

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Sundance: Immersive Theater Piece Scarecrow Had Me Hugging A Live Actor In VR

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Described by its creator, Sngmoo Lee, as “location-based arts,” Scarecrow is a one-of-a-kind immersive theater experience that combines live actors, temperature effects, and motion capture technology to offer one of the most ambitious interactive VR experiences in recent memory. Image courtesy of Sundance Institute, K’ART.

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VR Steampunk Opera ‘Miranda’ Is Visually Stunning But Needs Improvement

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Full-body motion capture offers a unique, but flawed live theater experience. Miranda features professional actors in motion capture suits performing on-stage in real-time. Perhaps it came down to issues regarding full-body motion capture. Keep in mind that this is live theater. Things can go wrong.

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What is Sony XYN? Introducing Sony’s Spatial Content Creation System

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The suite combines software offerings – including the XYN Motion Studio for motion capture and a spatial capture solution for transforming real-world objects into 3D assets – with innovative hardware like the XYN Headset, XR Head-mounted Display, Spatial Reality Display, and mocopi motion sensors.

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Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR

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Lead by National Taiwan University PhD student Po-Chen Wu during his internship at Oculus Research, the work presents a low-cost tracking and input solution with many potential applications in virtual and augmented reality. The DodecaPen system achieves the same accuracy with a single, off-the-shelf, 1.3MP camera.