Facebook’s Desire to Own the Metaverse
I'm always inspired and motivated after listening to Voices of VR podcasts. Kent is extremely intellectual (be prepared to look up new words in your dictionary) and very connected to the VR industry. His focus on non-gaming aspects of the technology is especially...
Coronavirus Could Help VR
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/02/coronavirus-could-be-catalyst-to-reinvigorate-virtual-reality-headsets.html In today's pandemic driven world, VR offers some hope of returning to a new normal in a lot of ways. CNBC mentioned a number of ways this might happen in their...
VES 2020 Predictions for VR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0vjfWLfTFs&t=1364s I took the opportunity to watch this 2015 panel predicting the future of VR in 2020. Ouch!, so much has changed I would definitely be interested in what these folks are doing now.
Where Can I Find Other VR Photographers?
VR Photography is a pretty new field, although photographers have been doing similar things for decades! Sometimes it can feel lonely on the Internet pushing a new area. Organizations IVRPA International VR Professionals
Single Camera VR Photos
After shooting several months with the GoPro I realized I was missing a little bit of quality, and I wanted to push to the next level and add stereo capability. For this project I created a rotating disk to mount my Panasonic G7 on. A snow storm was heading to...
PTGui Stereo Stitching
PTGui is a well respected panorama stitching tool. However, at the moment it does not provide an "official" way to stitch stereo equirectangulars. There is a way though, it just requires a little extra work. REFERENCES Definitive Video "Stereo Stitching with PTGui" by...
The Need for Open VR Hardware
"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat, those that do are doomed to watch others repeat it" In August 1981 IBM did something completely unexpected that solidified the future of personal computing, they introduced the PC. Unlike the products of its time it...
Viveport 6DOF Lite
Exciting news from HTC, Viveport Video now supports 6DOF images. For VR photographers shooting 360 stereo, depth information can be generated by taking the disparity of the two eyes, and generating a greyscale depth map. This map is usually combined with one eye for...
UE4 Virtual Production Field Guide
Epic Games (Unreal Engine) has released the Virtual Production Field Guide, which gives a very comprehensive review of the movie/VFX pipeline from a number of different aspects. The guide is fairly generic about individual tools, and is available...
What Is VR Photography?
What is VR Photography? Simply, it is photography that is meant to be viewed with a VR device like a head mount display (HMD) Technically it is a stereographic, 360 degree photo, generally in an over/under equirectangular format. This exciting new type of photography...