Category: VR
VR-NeRF: High-Fidelity Virtualized Walkable Spaces
An end-to-end system for the high-fidelity capture, model reconstruction, and real-time rendering of walkable spaces in virtual reality using neural radiance fields.
Canon RF 5.2mm f2.8L Dual Fisheye EOS VR System for VR photography and editing
https://thecamerastore.com/products/canon-rf-5-2mm-f2-8l-dual-fisheye
As part of the EOS VR System – this lens paired with the EOS R5 updated with firmware 1.5.0 or higher and one of Canon’s VR software solutions – you can create immersive 3D that can be experienced when viewed on compatible head mount displays including the Oculus Quest 2 and more. Viewers will be able to take in the scene with a vivid, wide field of view by simply moving their head. This is the world’s first digital interchangeable lens that can capture stereoscopic 3D 180° VR imagery to a single image sensor.
The pairing of this lens and the EOS R5 camera brings high resolution video recording at up to 8K DCI 30p and 4K DCI 60p.
https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-RF-5.2mm-F2.8-L-Dual-Fisheye-Lens.aspx
Meta Quest 3 is here
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-quest-3-oculus-preview-connect-2023/
- Better lenses
- Better resolution
- Better processor
- Better audio
- Better passthrough
- Better controllers
- Better form-factor
Apple Vision Pro vr/ar headset will cost $3,499 and debut in early 2024
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/06/tech/apple-vision-pro-hands-on/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/tech/live-news/apple-event-june-wwdc-2023/index.html
Introducing Meta Quest Pro, an Advanced VR Device for Collaboration and Creation
https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-quest-pro-price-release-date
Meta Quest Pro will be available for purchase on October 25 for $1,499.99 USD, and that includes the headset, Meta Quest Touch Pro controllers, stylus tips, partial light blockers, and a charging dock.
Meta Quest Pro is the first entry in Meta’s new high-end line of devices, and it’s packed with innovative features like high-res sensors for robust mixed reality experiences, crisp LCD displays for sharp visuals, a completely new and sleeker design, plus eye tracking and Natural Facial Expressions to help your avatar reflect you more naturally in VR.
https://www.laptopmag.com/features/meta-quest-pro-vs-quest-2-what-is-the-difference
$379 Nreal Light AR glasses launch in the US today
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/27/23373228/nreal-air-ar-glasses-streaming-video-us-launch-pricing-amazon
WebAR tutorial
With Unity
The future of BCI and VR according to Gabe Newell from Valve Corporation
– Valve is currently working on an open-source BCI software project, to interpret the signals being read from people’s brains using VR headsets.
– “If you’re a software developer in 2022 who doesn’t have one of these in your test lab, you’re making a silly mistake,”
– “The real world will seem flat, colourless, blurry compared to the experiences you’ll be able to create in people’s brains.”
– “BCIs have advanced to a point where that (VR) vertigo could be suppressed artificially, and that “it’s more of a certification issue than a scientific one”.
– Neuroplasticity is the ability of our brains to re-learn how to operate the body when something changes.
– “You can iterate software faster than a prosthetic”
Big tech snags Hollywood talent to pursue enhanced reality
https://www.cultofmac.com/726927/apple-among-the-tech-giants-snapping-up-vfx-experts-to-work-on-ar/
Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are snapping up the people and technology behind some of Hollywood’s blockbusters in an effort to improve their augmented- and virtual-reality offerings.
“It’s harder to make as much money working in visual effects,” said Paul Debevec, a veteran of the visual-effects industry who is now a professor at the University of Southern California. About 4½ years ago Google hired Mr. Debevec, an award-winning pioneer in the creation of convincing digital humans, to help the company advance extended reality.
Working in visual effects in film and TV can mean long, unpredictable hours, limited compensation, poor job security and paltry benefits—many call it the “cool tax” one pays for the pleasure of working in Hollywood.
Magic Leap reportedly laying off 1,000 employees and dropping consumer business
Bloomberg writes that in addition to laying off what amounts to half its workforce, the company will wind down its consumer-focused business, which included video games and entertainment apps.
It will focus on enterprise uses, potentially including a partnership with a large unnamed health care company
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Magic Leap raises $350 million and puts layoffs on hold
https://www.engadget.com/magic-leap-raises-350-million-puts-layoffs-on-hold-034824726.html
New Apple iPad Pro with LIDAR scanning support
www.zdnet.com/article/apples-new-ipad-pro-arrives-with-updated-chip-and-lidar-scanner-for-ar-apps/
The LiDAR scanner — a technology better known in self-driving cars — measures the distance to surrounding objects up to 5 meters away. New depth frameworks in iPadOS combine depth points measured by the LiDAR scanner, data from both cameras and motion sensors, and is enhanced by computer vision algorithms on the A12Z Bionic for a more detailed map of a scene. The aim is to boost the quality of AR experience created on the iPad Pro.
Apple said existing ARKit apps will automatically get instant AR placement, improved motion capture and people occlusion.
The tablet will have a 10-hour battery life, a 12MP Wide camera which can capture 4K video, and a 10MP Ultra Wide camera that zooms out two times to capture a much wider field of view.
Apps like DoubleTake by FiLMiC Pro, available next month, leverage the pro cameras and studio-quality mics to turn iPad Pro into a mobile video production studio.6
With iPadOS 13.4, Apple brings trackpad support to iPad, giving customers an all-new way to interact with their iPad.
