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InterDigital completes VVC and V-PCC standards

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Interdigital said that it has finalised the VVC and V-PCC video standards at MPEG. The VVC standard is claimed to improve video compression by 50%. V-PCC is a significant step forward …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Codecs| VVC (H.266)

Immersive Media at IBC

by Bob Raikes

Rob Koenen, VP of the VR Industry Forum gave a talk about immersive media and we had gone along to hear about lightfields. Unfortunately, the event over-ran and we had another commitment, so we …

Conflicts Between Broadcasters and Set Makers

by Bob Raikes

Over the years, Meko (the publishers of Display Monitor), Displaysearch, NPD Displaysearch, IHS and IHS Markit have run events around IFA to talk about the TV market. However, it has always proved very difficult …

Front Pictures Projection System Used for VR-Free 360° Dome

by Andrew Fenn

The Gwangju National Science Museum and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. chose Front Pictures to deliver a projection system for South Korea’s first spherical projection theatre, Space 360. The sphere, which is 12 …

Vuze Releases Dual 360° and VR180 Handheld Camera

by Andrew Fenn

Vuze recently announced the newest addition to its range of cameras, the Vuze XR. According to the device’s website, the Vuze XR can transform from a 360° camera to a VR180 camera at the …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 28

The Immersive Experience Begins to Emerge … Slowly

by Andy Marken

Want to see a storage person’s heart skip a beat … or two? Flutter even? Just mention VR and BAM!, they get real excited. Creating good (if not great) VR is getting slightly easier, …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 26

Solving Educational Challenges: The zDome Uni

by Len Scrogan

I’ve noticed at many tech conferences the steady and slow gait towards the ‘prosumer’ in education, the growing validity of and demand for student-created content. Take ISTE 2018, for example. At the largest ed-tech …

Lenovo Shows VR, Gaming Systems at Pepcom

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Pepcom held one of its ‘Digital Experience’ events on June 21st as part of the CE Week that took place in New York last week. One of the exhibitors was Lenovo. Lenovo had a …

NextVR Out Now on HTC Vive, Coming Soon to Oculus Rift

by Andrew Fenn

Live VR sports and entertainment broadcaster NextVR has launched its app on Viveport, HTC Vive’s storefront, and will soon bring it to Oculus Rift and SteamVR as well. The app has been made available …

Tags:360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 21

New Technology Enables 360° Video Capture from a Single Photograph

by Andrew Fenn

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which took place earlier this month, VR studio DVMobile demonstrated its new technology, VolumeCapture, which facilitates the capture of 2D and 3D models from real-time scene data with …

Tags:360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 21

TS06 Immersive Capture Moving Toward Light Field Era

by Chris Chinnock

In the “Capturing Immersive Images” session, Pete Lude from Mission Rock Digital gave an overview of some of the techniques. This included lidar scanning, time of flight sensors, structured light capture and plenoptic cameras. …

MWC 2018 Roundup Part 1

by Bob Raikes

Abenecel was at the 4YFN event and is based in Korea. The company is a technology licensing company that has a patented compression pre-processing system that can be used for graphics files and can …