VR Image File Formats
Anyone working in VR and immersive media is going to encounter a number of different formats. Being able to recognize the formats, where they are commonly used, and advantages/disadvantages of each is an important skill. Let's take a look at the most commonly...
Best workflow for processing 360 photos and video
What's the best post-processing workflow for 360 video? To answer this question we need to breakdown the processing steps, there is ingest, stitching and editing. Let's take a look: Ingest For cameras like the Insta 360 Pro that put all images on one SD card, ingest...
WebXR Poly Awards
I am convinced that WebXR provides the most hope for a free and open VR ecosystem, so it is great to see a group highlighting the best in WebXR. The WebXR Poly awards were announced, and showcased some interesting projects. Voices of VR has a good summary page with...
What are the basic requirements for a 360VR camera?
360VR is not tiny planet photos or 360 omni cam edited into standard 2D video! I love that 360 cameras have become more popular, but the images produced don't give that full immersive effect that really caught my imagination the first time I viewed a proper 360VR...
Can VR Photography Be An Expressive Art Form?
Can VR photography be a new art form? There is an age old discussion on whether photography is art, now with 360VR photography there is no doubt some who will say that it is NOT art. This is really my goal with this website, to explore what photography will look like...
Insta360 Pro Hands on Review
Is the Insta360 Pro a good camera for 360VR landscape photogaphy? This has been my go-to VR camera for the last several years, and while not perfect, it continues to be the best option for VR photographers that want to get out in the field and shoot landscape 360VR...
Lightfield Photography
I have explored assembling lightfields with horizontal only disparity using a circle of cameras. This allows a viewer to move side to side and see parallax, but you can't move up and down. Surprisingly this works pretty well in VR, and the relative simplicity makes it...
IPFS Meet Brave
In great news IPFS is now supported in Brave. I switched to Brave about 6 months ago, mostly because I'm interested in privacy (Duh!) but also micro-payments as an alternative to an ad supported web. Definitely interested in trying to host some content here on...
Best Software for Volumetric Capture
We have reviewed the Kinect 1, 2 and now Azure Kinect. The performance of these devices has slowly improved, Azure Kinect is a big form factor improvement over the older models that makes field capture much more appealing. But what is the best software to make a 3D...
Plugin Ethics- A User Story
In the beginning Google had an ethic, do no harm, then they realized they were a company and decided shareholder value was at odds with that, so they removed it. When you think about it though, it's pretty ridiculous to ask a for profit company to have ethics let...