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Etisalat Highlights Broadband Applications

by Bob Raikes

Local telco, Etisalat, was, as it does most years, was showing a range of IoT and other applications that exploit high bandwidth networks. We watched a presentation on the QNX operating system that was …

VR Getting Ready for Prime Time

by Steve Sechrist

Got a Google Cardboard VR for your smartphone and looking for content? Well probably not, but Palo Alto VR content Company Jaunt is looking to help drive demand for the new 360 degree display …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 3D Content Creation| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 42

3D VR Used for Home Sales

by Bob Raikes

A real estate agency in Boulder Colorado, US, 8z Real Estate has started to use 2D & 3D cameras to create 3D scans of rooms. The 3D scans are combined to create 3D, dollhouse, …

Introducing an Automultiscopic Display

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (Playa Vista, CA) have developed a system that captures videos in a unique way and then presents full sized images of people on …

Tags:3D Cameras| 3D Content Creation| Panasonic| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Next Steps in VR – Education and Games

by Steve Sechrist

In a rather nondescript pipe and drape booth at the SIGGRAPH VR Village earlier this month two Google employees sat under a – well, cardboard sign that simply read Google Cardboard. It is evidence …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Google| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Nomadic Virtual Reality Opens SIGGRAPH VR Village

by Steve Sechrist

The Virtual Reality Village opened for the first time at the Special Interest Group Graphics (SIGGRAPH for short) conference and Exhibition in Los Angeles. A VR Village highlight included a nomadic Virtual Reality system …

Fraunhofer To Use Nuke for Light Fields

by Bob Raikes

The Fraunhofer Digital Cinema Alliance said that The Foundry’s Nuke will be the first official implementation of the light field technology that the Alliance showed at last year’s IBC event. (Fraunhofer Explains its Virtual …

Google Cardboard App Provides VR Design Guidance

by Phillip Wright

Google is offering an application at the Play store that offers developers a framework and guidelines for virtual reality (VR) design. Google describes the application, Cardboard Design Lab (screenshot below) saying: “Enjoy an educational …

3D in IZone at Display Week 2015

by Steve Sechrist

At Display Week 2015, in the prototype IZone booth, 3D display was alive and well. One such autostereoscopic (no glasses) technology came from a Shenzhen, China company, SuperD 3D technology, with its 3D mobile …

Educational 3D Bits and Bytes

by Len Scrogan

It seems there is no let up in the rain here in Colorado during our ‘monsoon’ season, but at least the landscape is in full bloom with beautiful hues of green. Events and developments …

3D Lives at Sky Italia

by Tom Allen

Sky Italia has begun shooting on a new 3D production focused on Florence and its Uffizi Gallery. The documentary Florence and the Uffizi is being captured in 6k for 3D. It will be downcoverted …

Chiaro Claims New 3D Capture Tech

by Tom Allen

US-based Chiaro Technologies has developed a new motion-capable 3D capture technology. ‘Cloudburst’ streams 3D data at 15+ fps (acquisition can be faster), running on a PC CPU instead of a specialised ASIC. The device …