Vol 24 – Issue 17 – Page 6

Updates from the Virtual Realty Industry Forum

by Chris Chinnock

The Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) is a non-for-profit organization whose mission statement is “to further the widespread availability of high quality audiovisual VR experiences for the benefit of consumers.” At NAB, the organization …

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Adaptive Viewport Distribution Solutions for VR Content

by Chris Chinnock

Increasing the image fidelity of VR content will require more pixels to be delivered to the end user. That has a big impact on bandwidth, so we are starting to see the emergence of …

Digital Domain Releases End-to-End Suite for VR Experiences

by Chris Chinnock

Digital Domain, a long time VFX company for the Hollywood community, has announced an end-to-end set of solutions for the creation, production and distribution of virtual reality (VR) experiences. This appears to be focused …

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Brother’s Head-Mounted Viewfinder Shown at NAB

by Chris Chinnock

Brother International Corporation was at NAB to show off its high-definition head-mounted display, the monocular AiRScouter WD-330C. It is optimized for video production applications such as a remote camera viewfinder. But it is not …

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Epson Shows BT-300 AR Headset

by Chris Chinnock

Epson announced no new products at NAB, but was there to show off its projectors and AR headset, the BT-300, especially the new Drone Edition version. They made the point that this may be …

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Augmented TV Demos at NAB

by Chris Chinnock

Augmented TV is a concept where a phone, tablet or headset is used to add additional information for the user while watching TV in a traditional living room situation. We saw examples from Technicolor, …

Canon Shows HDR Projection

by Chris Chinnock

Canon was showing a projection-based HDR demo at NAB that was not too bad, in my view. The projector was their 4K501ST that was modified to cover the full DCI-P3 color gamut. Content was …

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Akyumen Offering Pico-embedded Phones and Tablets

by Chris Chinnock

Akyumen is about to offer some new mobile products to U.S. customers that include embedded pico projectors. These products are more popular in Asia and I am not sure if the company will have …

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Domed Theater Demos at NAB

by Chris Chinnock

Canon was showing a dome theater in its booth at NAB that was frankly, not very good. Content was captured with seven Canon C-300 Mark II DSLRs in a Radiant Images rig. Time lapse …

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Future of Cinema Conference Round up

by Chris Chinnock

Frank Poradish of Brass Roots Technology gave an overview of the evolution of digital projection in the cinema touching on the latest trends in resolution, higher contrast, laser illumination, higher frame rates and wide …

SpectraCal and LG Developing Better HDR Calibration Solution

by Chris Chinnock

Tyler Pruitt from SpectraCal, now part of Portrait Display, said that calibrating an HDR display is much harder than an SDR display. With HDR content, there is almost always a color volume remapping function …

ICtCp Better than CIELab for Measuring Color Differences with HDR

by Chris Chinnock

Liz Pieri of Dolby Labs gave a presentation explaining why in HDR displays, one should really use the ICtCp color space instead of the Lab space. The reason is that using the DeltaE2000 metric …

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