The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

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. For sure SteamVR can be useful to create a cheap animation studio in your home.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The platform uses photogrammetry and motion capture to create the avatars using a full-body scanner comprising seventy cameras. Other features which make up the Holodeck are a 70-square-metre room, divided into two areas: one area for spectators and the other for active users to move around in.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 20, 2024

Tesla is using virtual reality technology to train its Optimus AI robot. The revelation came via the US-based electric car company’s career pages where it is currently advertising for a new position that involves wearing VR headset and motion-capture suit for up to $48 per hour.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We used motion capture, face-scanning technology and professional voice actors to immerse users in the story Click To Tweet. The game took over 8,800 working hours to create and boasts the largest animated virtual cast of characters ever based on real people inside a single VR experience Click To Tweet. “We

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2017

Anvio VR is a new, motion capture tracked VR experience that throws you and a bunch of friends into a warehouse-scale VR arena to battle, well, pretty much everything. Anvio VR is a new, motion captured virtual reality platform developed by Vortex LLC in Moscow. It looks great!

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Called the Manus Pro Tracker, the company says the device is designed specifically for SteamVR-based motion capture, virtual production and full-body VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2022

Today with great pleasure I introduce you to WalkOVR , an interesting tracking solution for Virtual Reality. WalkOVR is a company specifically focused on user movements in Virtual Reality through its proprietary wearable solutions. We still improve ourselves; especially on the motion capture side.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

This is often why directors will throw their talent into massive green screen sets while wearing motion capture suits and leave it entirely up to their imagination. The only way the cast had a chance to understand where they were – we all had virtual reality Oculus* goggles.

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VRScout

APRIL 20, 2018

Virtual reality took center stage in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One blockbuster film when it was released March 29th. Since much of Ready Player One ’s production included virtual sets, Spielberg needed a way to pre-visualize framing of shots and the placement of cast members wearing only motion capture suits in the studio.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2021

Case in point: VRChat is host to a growing community of people strapping on motion-trackers to have live dance battles in virtual reality. These are real people, connected virtually from around the world, actually performing these dance moves in real-time. . — MAKOTO (@MAKOTO_VR) November 11, 2020.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2023

Virtual reality company Flipside XR has launched a new app designed for creators called Flipside Studio. Launched on March 2 with support from Meta, the VR app enables users to build animated content in real time, using advanced virtual production tools. See Also: Should You Buy a Quest 2?

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2016

This past weekend at VRLA , the world’s largest virtual reality expo, Russia-based Interactive Lab showed off their latest VR demo where you physically navigated a tricycle through a Tron-like race track. The “racetrack” was surrounded by 22 motion-capture cameras that tracked the movement of the tricycle, steering and your head.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They are using extended reality , which encompasses augmented and virtual reality technologies, to give K-pop fans an immersive experience of the virtual concert. Extended Reality During the COVID-19 Pandemic. John Legend, on the other hand, used the virtual music platform Wave to perform in avatar form.

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ARPost

AUGUST 23, 2021

MANUS creates gloves for both motion capture as well as for controlling sensitive VR applications. The most recent MANUS product is the SteamVR tracker for precise gesture controls and motion capture. “As SenseGlove can also be used for motion capture, but currently only works in this capacity with the Pico Neo line.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Virtual reality has taken the world by storm. Here is a summation of all things virtual reality as we currently know it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2025

This suite combines various software offerings, including the XYN Motion Studio for motion capture and a spatial capture solution that transforms real-world objects into 3D assets. It also features innovative hardware such as the XYN Headset, XR Head-mounted Display, Spatial Reality Display, and mocopi motion sensors.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

In addition to releasing several VR experiences inspired by the movie , the company has released a behind-the-scenes short showing how immersive virtual reality was used in the production process. All we had to do was remember what it looked like when we were back in the motion capture volume.”.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Sword Art Online is easily one of the most popular anime ever to be based on virtual reality. Starting today and running through March 10th, Sword Art Online: EX-CHRONICLE – Online Edition is a virtual fan event hosted by Sony with cooperation from the official SAO-P Project. Image courtesy Sony.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2019

Bo Foreman, PT, PhD , associate professor and director of the Motion Capture Core Facility at the University of Utah. After practicing with a virtual reality system for three 30-minute sessions a week for six weeks, the tested patients demonstrated improved obstacle negotiation, balance, and confidence.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2017

This is done by placing performers in a motion-capture studio and recording their movements from every possible angle using multiple cameras. This volumetric data is then imported into a 3D rendering program and projected into the virtual reality experience giving the illusion of an actual human being in 3D.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

PhaseSpace has been a leader in high-performance motion capture for over 20 years, providing solutions for the research, industrial, and graphic arts communities. Planet Whack was initially created for last year’s Siggraph conference as a fun way of highlighting PhaseSpace’s real-time tracking capabilities.

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VRScout

MARCH 22, 2019

Manus VR, best known for their cutting-edge haptic feedback VR gloves , have been using their proprietary tech in a variety of fields for years, influencing everything from motion capture and automobile production, to immersive gaming and healthcare. With our experience in virtual reality we feel like we can make a difference.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Using the power of photogrammetry, motion capture, and virtual reality, the team recreated Nayeon for one last goodbye with the family’s mother, Ji-sung. High resolution photographs were taken in a 3D capture technique called photogrammetry. Like a typical seven-year-old, Nayeon was a spry, playful kid.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

It’s emerged that last year’s Star Wars: Rogue One , used existing virtual reality technology – specifically HTC Vive’s Steam VR tracking – to allow the film’s director to compose visual effects shots for the movie. Watch how it was done.

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Wired VR

MAY 9, 2017

The $2,500 device makes motion capture as easy as suiting up. The post The Rokoko Smartsuit Brings Motion Capture to the Masses appeared first on WIRED.

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2018

Created initially to work in MIT’s new drone-testing facility in Building 31 , the new Flight Goggles system integrates a motion capture system, an image rendering program, and number of on-board electronics including IMUs, and custom-built circuit boards that integrate a powerful embedded supercomputer.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

While developing for virtual reality can be an exciting and rewarding experience, it’s also anything but easy. Thankfully there are various accelerator programs, incubators and developer centers full of amazing teams committed to supporting virtual reality developers and their wild ambitions. I sure as hell am.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Sensic, a long-time player in virtual reality and co-founder of OSVR , finally released their VR headset destined to make its way to public venues such as theme parks and arcades. IR motion capture for VR, image courtesy OptiTrack. pre-production model, image courtesy Sensics.

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Road to VR

APRIL 14, 2017

First revealed a year ago at VRLA Summer Expo 2016, the application aims to give anyone access to simple tools to tell stories in virtual reality. Mindshow allows users to choose a scene, stage the set with props, drop characters into the scene, and even animate them using motion capture through the HTC Vive.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In homage to the greatest movie ever made, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality – the VR arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment – has developed a virtual reality game that puts you in a Punxsutawney time loop. And don’t forget your booties cause it’s COLD out there… . Click To Tweet.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the last few years, there’s been less hype around VR gloves and haptic accessories in the extended reality space. However, as the adoption of virtual reality grows in the business landscape for training, product development, and collaboration, this is beginning to change.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2019

Similar to other social music-based experiences, such as TheWaveVR and TribeXR , users are able to connect to a shared virtual space in real-time and interact with their digital environment in a number of unique ways. Image Credit: VRScout.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Their suit is optimized for haptic feedback, motion capture, temperature control, and biometrics. Speech is huge in virtual reality– one of our most important and unique traits as humans is our ability to communicate and empathize with each other, after all. Image Credit: Teslasuit. Image Credit: Stanford Shape Lab.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In a recent scientific publication entitled VRHapticDrones: Providing Haptics in Virtual Reality through Quadcopters , researchers from LMU Munich, TU Darmstadt, Wellesley College, the University of Duisburg,-Essen, and the University of Regensburg offer a solution to body-free VR haptic feedback in the form of a programmable quadcopter system.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. With a surprise move on a completely random day, Facebook has launched Horizon Workrooms, a VR application geared towards having meetings in virtual reality. I think that cubes are never enough… cubes are love, cubes are life.

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VRScout

APRIL 4, 2017

“We wanted the surfaces to alter materials, emit light, and look interesting throughout the entire piece, as it was driven by the underlying motion-capture performance,” said Matt Chandler of VFX studio Analog. Notget is the fourth VR video released from Vulnicara , following Black Lake , Stonemilker , and a trailer for Family.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Thanks to a new deal made by AMC theatres and LA-based virtual reality startup Dreamscape Immersive , six lucky AMC theaters spread across North America and Europe will soon be home to cooperative VR experiences that blend the line between games and film. beginning next year.

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