All Virtual Reality articles
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NewsJoker and 1917 lead Oscar nominations
The full list of nominees for the 92 nd Oscars has been announced with box office hit Joker leading with 11 nominations and Sam Mendes’ first world war drama 1917 following with 10.
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Industry Trends
Advancing immersive realities
The evolution of immersive content has moved from novelty ideas to realities with live audio streaming, 8K+ rendering and 360-degree video creation as a service explored in IBC technical papers.
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Industry Trends
Back to the future: A 2019 technical retrospective
How do you capture a snapshot of the year in technology? It’s impossible to cover everything, especially in a market as diverse and exciting as media and entertainment, but here we cast an eye over some of 2019’s top tech moments.
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Industry Trends
Top 10: Create & Produce
As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the most popular news and industry trend articles in our Create Produce category.
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Industry Trends
2019 review: The technology shaping content creation
Interactive drama, games engines, holograms, aerial spectaculars and digital cosmetics showed the blend of content and tech innovation has never been stronger
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Industry Trends
What’s next for VR?
The uptake of virtual reality technology becomes more mainstream and broadcasters’ experiment with the immersive medium, IBC technical papers from TNO, Philips Group Innovation and NHK offer a glimpse into the future.
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Industry Trends
5G: The impact on broadcasting
As 5G deployments gain momentum into 2020, the media and broadcast industry is looking at ways of capitalising on this next-generation mobile tech. Explore how in technical papers from the BBC, KPN, Ericsson, Qualcomm and Nokia.
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Executive Interviews
Light fields: A bright immersive idea
Light field is seen as the cutting edge of immersive tech and a new industry organisation is looking to standardise the technology. James Pearce speaks to IDEA president Pete Ludé about what light fields bring to VR.
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Industry Trends
Analysis: The evolution of immersive
Several studies have attached massive numbers to the VR and AR sector, but VR, in particular, has suffered a number of setbacks from the likes of Google and the BBC. James Pearce takes a look at the immersive market.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Paul Debevec, Google
Paul Debevec, Google In Steven Spielberg’s movie Ready Player One there’s a shot of actor Ty Sheridan putting on virtual reality (VR) headgear which transitions imperceptibly from real to virtual cameras as the shot moves to an extreme close-up. In Gemini Man , Will Smith’s ...
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Thought Leadership
Understanding immersive realities
VR offers additional experiences and immersion, but the technology should not be used just for the sake of presenting content in VR, writes BBC R D’s Alia Sheikh.
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News
BBC shuts down VR Hub
The BBC has shut down its VR Hub production and commissioning unit after two years in what could be seen as another blow to the burgeoning VR sector.
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Technical Papers
Lessons learnt during one year of commercial volumetric video production
Abstract In June 2018, Fraunhofer HHI together with Studio Babelsberg, ARRI, UFA, and Interlake founded the joint venture Volucap GmbH and opened a commercial volumetric video studio on the film campus of Potsdam Babelsberg. After a testing phase, commercial productions started in November 2018. The core technology for volumetric ...
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Technical Papers
The immersive audience experience evaluation toolkit
In this paper, i2 media research explores a new way to measure audience perceptions of impact and value of different immersive experiences.
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Technical Papers
Real-time decoding and AR playback of the emerging MPEG video-based point cloud compression standard
In this paper, Nokia Technologies presents the world’s first implementation of the upcoming MPEG standard for video-based point cloud compression.
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Video
IBC2019 Keynote: Cinematic trailblazer Andy Serkis
IBC2019: Actor and director Andy Serkis discusses his journey into performance capture and the ethics of capturing actors’ likenesses in his IBC2019 Keynote session.
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News
IBC2019 Preview: Friday
IBC2019: Highlights and the must-see conference sessions, feature areas, Elton John’s Rocket Man on the Big Screen, and AWS 4K Charity run sign up.
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Industry Trends
Behind the scenes: The Lion King
The animated remake of the Disney classic employed a live-action film crew that could work inside virtual reality using traditional camera equipment to set up and execute shots in the animated world the same way they would be achieved in the real world.
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Industry Trends
New adventures in AR
Broadcasting and film are giving rise to an ever-greater number and diversity of AR experiences. But as David Davies discovers, it could be a few years yet before AR realises its phenomenal commercial potential.
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News
Facebook ‘preparing’ to launch news section & Huawei reveals 5G-powered cloud
12 - 16 Aug: Your guide to what’s happened this week in the media, entertainment and technology industry.
