Augmented and Virtual Reality
How VR Could (or Can) (or Will) Help Us Through This Quarantine
Learning to leverage virtual reality in our lives is a natural transition.
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Virtual Reality 101: Where and How to Begin
“The technology is less complicated than you think and is super easy to understand.”
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Ampere: Streaming Sole Growth Area Amid COVID-19’s Wake
“Streaming services are likely to come out on top here as viewers are leaning on streaming content providers heavily, just as a slew of...
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360-Degree VR Documentaries Heighten Prospects for Non-Profits
"We sought to understand the charitable behavior profile of VR audiences, the effectiveness of 360 video compared to more traditional forms of advertising."
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Up Close and Personal, But Totally Not: “Teleportation” Tech Enables “One-on-One” Interviews
Vizrt experiments with new approaches to live, remote production
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Stay Indoors Information: Keeping the Stream Alive
“We are seeing a large uptake on low-cost OTT streaming applications as customers look to expand their reach.”
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How “One World: Together At Home” Came Together… and Went Out
Performances were packaged into a number of shows and livestreams broadcast on major networks across the globe, while versions of the show were also...
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Ragnar Kjartansson: Designing and Displaying the Artist’s Video Installations
On exhibit through Jan. 8 at the Hirshhorn Museum is a retrospective of internationally renowned Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's highly personal, sometimes ironic artwork.
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Deep Learning and Lumière Brothers Footage: 1896 and Hand-Cranked Cameras vs. AI and 4K, Everybody Wins
A neural network was utilized to create a 4K version of The Lumière Brothers' film "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.”
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Join MLK’s 1963 March on Washington… in Virtual Reality
TIME Studios’ immersive project, “The March,” brings the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech to virtual...
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Immersive, Responsive: Floating in the Falling (Digital) Universe of Flowers
teamLab's digital artworks are designed to dissolve "the boundary between the body and the artwork."
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“Worlds Beyond Earth:” The Hayden Planetarium’s Immersive Experience
"Our ability to render these distant worlds is nothing short of astonishing."
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Dawn of the MTV Era: Video Art Pioneer Nam June Paik’s Vision
Three-year traveling exhibit opens in London for the groundbreaking Korean-American artist known as the father of video art.
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Artist William Kentridge’s Hand-Drawn Art Projected as Video Onto Times Square Billboards
As part of Times Square's long-running Midnight Moment series, Kentridge's 'To What End?' will be running for three minutes every night through the month...
Product News and Reviews
Post Malone Takes AJA Ki Pro GO on “Runaway” Tour
"With all of the show’s smoke and pyrotechnics, we need a high-quality file or else the effects will break up when encoded, so H.264...
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Upcoming VR Series Will Document Life in Space Like Never Before
Since December 2018, a new camera sent up to space on the International Space Station has been capturing the life of astronauts, and the...
Streaming
Coldplay Debuts New Album with Global Live-Streaming Performances
On Friday, November 22nd 2019, Coldplay performed two “Sunrise” and “Sunset” sets at Amman’s Citadel in Jordan, both of which were streamed live on...
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How Art Can Beautifully Fuse With Augmented Reality
"Augmented reality is a medium ripe for dynamic and visual storytelling that can extend an artist's practice beyond the studio or the gallery and...
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AI Powers New “Dali Lives Exhibit” at Dali Museum
"Dali Lives" employs machine learning to create a version of Salvador Dali's likeness, resulting in an uncanny resurrection of the mustached master for visitors...
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AR as Public Art: Times Square Submerged
Mel Chin's "Unmoored" is used to "trigger a conversation about the fragile future of our planet with the hundreds of thousands of people that...
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Only 101 Trillion Storylines: Controlling ‘The Moment’ With Your Mind
It's "an interactive film which uses a Brain Computer Interface to collect attention data from the viewer and recombine into a real-time narrative."
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AI, Your Eyes and ‘The Angry River’
Using eye-tracking tech and machine learning, 'The Angry River' narrative changes based on where a viewer looks
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Need to Know: Blockchain: Video Production Possibilities
"I expect that within three years, blockchain storage and processing for filmmaking and television production will be widely adopted," says Pete Ludeé, technology consultant...
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Need to Know: Blockchain
Editor’s Note: Welcome to NewBay’s inaugural edition of Need to Know, where we explain complex topics and demonstrate how they apply to each industry...
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‘Hacking the Heist’ Replaces Stolen Artworks With AR Versions
An app leverages augmented reality to digitally place stolen paintings back in their frames.
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‘Frankenstein AI:’ Monsters and Machine Learning
"There are so many relevant themes within the work that we felt it was interesting to explore it and look at this idea of...
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‘Mosaic:’ Steven Soderbergh Experiments With a Multiplatform Mystery
"It's not a TV show. It's not a game. We should be like Prince. It's just, like, a symbol."
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What You Need to Launch a Live Streaming Studio
Join production and delivery expert Philip Nelson for this educational (and free) webinar February 14, 2018.
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Content Delivery Challenges: Managing the Changing Media Landscape
The media industry is going through a revolution.
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Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Mosaic’: Inside the Interactive Storytelling App
"Mosaic," the latest project from filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, is a multimedia experiment whose intent is to change the way stories are told.
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‘Discovery TRVLR’: Exploring and Experiencing the Discovery/Google VR Series
Filmmaker Addison O'Dea has been traveling the world since he was a boy. With Discovery's 360° video series Discovery TRVLR, he is taking audiences...
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Night Watch: View 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Masters in VR
"The visitor steps into an orb-shaped virtual gallery with a painted blue sky, a trademark of Old Dutch paintings."
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‘Melita’ and the Emergence of Cinematic VR
"A combination of cinematic movement, character development, actors, and dialogue."
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CVLT Develops AR-Powered Anthropologie Experience
During the production process, CVLT revamped an immense collection of 96,000 assets, resulting in the 360 3D images on the Anthropologie custom furniture site.
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VR Series ‘The Female Planet:’ Immersion, Empowerment
“The Female Planet,” a new VR video series from Google and Surround Vision, that captures the daily lives of female role models around the...
News and Features
Rhode Island Capitol TV Streams Legislative Meetings with DEVOS
"Our cable TV schedule made it difficult to broadcast all live sessions and also make replays and interviews available during the hours when citizens...
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Dance Tonite Brings an Interactive Party Online
It's a VR collaboration that takes the single "Tonight" by the band LCD Soundsystem, it's the basis for a virtual reality dance party created...
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‘Marjorie Prime’ Holograms Delivered With AR App
Volumetric capture company 8i released a collection of Jon Hamm holograms through its Holo mobile augmented reality (AR) app.
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Loco Develops Slo-Mo 360° VR Workflow
"The challenge of creating a 360° film that features in-camera slow motion effects provided us with all the lessons of a master class."
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W Magazine Launches Layered Katy Perry AR Experience
The collector's issue features cinematic, 3D visual effects, and AR-enhanced imagery and videos, which appear to leap off the page when viewed through the...
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‘Hansel & Gretel:’ Video Installation Explores the Impact of Surveillance
"It's very interesting that in such a big crowd, in such a massive city, our characters can be captured by digital pixels."