Month: October 2024

  • Apple Immersive Film: Submerged

    Apple Immersive Film: Submerged

    New Apple Immersive Video series, films, concerts, and more set to premiere on Apple Vision Pro.  The making of Submerged:

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  • Sunshine and Moonlight

    Sunshine and Moonlight

    Sunshine and Moonlight allows you to stream a game from a Windows PC to your Apple Vision Pro. Sunshine, available on the LizardByte GitHub page, allows you to easily convert your PC or laptop into a streaming server using the Moonlight Game Streaming app. The Moonlight iPad app on your Apple Vision Pro will give…

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  • Apple VisionOS Simulator

    Apple VisionOS Simulator

    I’m not new to XCode and found it pretty simple to setup Apple Vision OS Simulator on my Mac. I was able to link to some of my panoramic images and spatial media. Learn more about VisionOS Simulator: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/interacting-with-your-app-in-the-visionos-simulator

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  • NVIDIA Training: Free USD Learning Path

    NVIDIA Training: Free USD Learning Path

    Foundations Get started with this comprehensive introduction to the essential concepts, vocabulary, and Python best practices for OpenUSD. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/learn/learning-path/openusd/#courses Course 1: Useful information https://openusd.org/release/index.htmlhttps://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/omniverse/usd/ Alliance for OpenUSD https://aousd.org/ AU24 AUTODESK UNIVERSITY’S CONFERENCE USD SESSIONS https://aousd.org/event/au-2024-the-design-make-conference AU 2024 gathers the brightest across industries – from VFX, architecture, animation, product design, and more – to advance industry…

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  • Life and Death of a Virtual Influencer

    Life and Death of a Virtual Influencer

    While I was working on Evie Digigram for my Masters’ dissertation and posting regular tech adventures where Evie would appear in a different form of reality, or be animated with a new tool I’d quickly learned to use, I got to know a few other virtual influencers inhabiting the same space, and we would mutually…

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  • Animate MetaHuman with Audio File

    Animate MetaHuman with Audio File

    Reallusion have been offering this functionality for some time. This will be interesting to try.

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  • Childish Gambino’s Pharos Festival

    Childish Gambino’s Pharos Festival

    When I first learned about this project, I found it hugely inspiring. The concerts were held inside a 160-foot-tall dome. Visuals were projected in a 360-degree view to support the stage design, with Childish Gambino performing at the center. When audiences looked up, they saw different characters moving to the music and colorful scenery lighting…

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  • Virtual Production: What’s the Deal?

    Virtual Production: What’s the Deal?

    Including interview comments from my colleague, PK from Disguise. ( I do love the Alice Cooper outro too ❤️) Rob Chandler runs the Starlting Pixel community. Learn more about it here. IF you, like me, are wondering where all the women interviewees are, here is an article by British Cinematography on women in VP. Here…

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  • Mark Billinghurst Lectures: Research Directions in Heads-Up Computing

    Mark Billinghurst Lectures: Research Directions in Heads-Up Computing

    In 2020, I applied and was accpted to remotely join the Virtual Internship Programme run by Mark Billinghurst at the Empathic Computing Lab (ECL) in NZ. Mark heads up the ECL and HIT Lab NZ. The Empathic Computing Laboratory (ECL) is an academic research laboratory at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, and…

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  • Moment Factory’s DMX Previs Unreal Engine Sample Project

    Moment Factory’s DMX Previs Unreal Engine Sample Project

    This is a free Unreal Engine sample project developed by Moment Factory and available for download here. All I did here was download, create the new project in UE4.27, render the existing sequence to .png, rebuild the frames in Premiere and add the audio back in sync. Download the project: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/dmx-previs-sample Read more about the…

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  • Ultraleap Ultrahaptics STRATOS Explore Development Kit and the Art of Shadows

    Ultraleap Ultrahaptics STRATOS Explore Development Kit and the Art of Shadows

    Storylab was a collaborative project with industry partner Ultraleap. The brief challenged the group to create a VR experience to engage people with, and demonstrate the affordances of the Ultrahaptics STRATOS Explore Development Kit, a haptics kit. It was 2020, in the middle of COVID, and yet we were very lucky to have the chance to…

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  • Wave VR Closed Beta October 17 2024

    Wave VR Closed Beta October 17 2024

    Read more about it here. Want to Sign up for the Closed Beta? Here’s the Referral link.

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  • Unreal Engine 5.5 Tech Demo

    Unreal Engine 5.5 Tech Demo

    See more videos from Unreal Fest Seattle 2024 here.

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