VR Video Capture
Lytro’s Latest VR Light-field Camera is Huge, and Hugely Improved
In the last few years, Lytro has made a major pivot away from consumer-facing digital camera products now to high-end production cameras and tools, with a major part of the company's focus on the 'Immerge' light-field camera for VR....
The Guru 360° is a Clever Portable Stabiliser for 360° Cameras
The Guru 360° is the first 3-axis gimbal designed specifically for 360-degree cameras. Adding to the flexibility of the MOZA interchangeable gimbal system, the unit works with all lightweight 360-degree cameras with minimal obstruction to the field of view.
360-degree...
YouTube Spaces Studio Explores the Basics of Mixed Reality Video Capture
Prolific YouTuber Tom Scott recently visited the Mixed Reality Lab at the YouTube Space studio in New York in order to showcase mixed reality capture. The lab is using a technique involving a green screen and a tracked camera...
Believe the Hype: HypeVR’s Volumetric Video Capture is a Glimpse at the Future of VR Video
After having teased the tech toward the end of last year, we've finally gone hands-on with HypeVR's volumetric video captures which lets you move around inside of VR videos.
Inherent Limitations of 360 Video
Today's most immersive VR video productions are...
Exclusive: Nokia Launches OZO Player SDK, a Cross-platform Video Playback Engine for VR Apps
Nokia has launched the OZO Player SDK, a cross-platform foundation for creating applications with high fidelity VR video playback. Road to VR spoke with Nokia's Head of VR Technologies, Tarif Sayed to learn more about the offering.
While VR video portals like Jaunt,...
The ‘Orah 4i’ 4k Live Streaming 360 Camera is Available to Pre-order Now
VideoStitch, the company behind the eponymous 360 post-production software suite, yesterday announced the launch of their first 360 camera, the Orah 4i. The all-in-one solution provides a 4k resolution image that can be automatically stitched and transmitted them live to...
Choosing the Right 360 VR Camera
With a virtual reality camera, you can capture the whole world around you in a 360 degree videosphere. VR filmmaking is seeing rapid innovation, meaning that there are more 360-degree cameras on the market now than ever before, geared...
Framestore VR on Digital Lightfield Workflows & VR Ad Campaigns
When I was at SIGGRAPH this year, one of the hottest topics was figuring out the workflows for how to deal with the complexity of capturing, processing, and distributing volumetric digital light fields. Otoy's Jules Urbach had a lot...
Crazy Camera Rig Captures Volumetric VR Video with 14 Cameras and LiDAR
HypeVR is working to bring live-action volumetric 360 video to VR. The company's crazy camera rig, built to capture the necessary data, is a mashup of high-end cameras and laser scanning tech.
HypeVR recently shot a brief demonstration of the...
This Project to Preserve Classic Ghost Trains in VR Needs Your Help
The Dark Ride Project is an initiative that wants to preserve the dying history of the classic carnival ghost train ride by setting out to capture as many as possible in 360 video before they disappear forever.
The classic ghost...
NVIDIA Announces ‘VRWorks 360’, Claims “Real-Time” VR Video Stitching
SIGGRAPH 2016 is underway, and as is traditional for NVIDIA, the company has brought with it a raft of professional and prosumer to announce. And for those involved in the rapidly expanding world of 360 video and film, they're announcing...
Sam Macaroni’s ‘Junkbots’ Used a Custom Camera Rig to Capture Seamless 360 Action
Over the last four years, Sam Macaroni has pumped out over two hundred movies on YouTube. Before that, he was carving up Hollywood as an actor and a director. Last year, someone placed an Oculus Rift DK2 on his...
Signia Venture Partners on 8i Volumetric Capture, Photorealism, and Presence
Sunny Dhillon is a principal and co-founder of Signia Venture Partners as well as a lifelong gamer. Signia has been an investor in mobile games, and so he knows what to look for in terms of a solid team...
Total Cinema 360 Brings Disney’s The Lion King Musical to VR
Disney and Total Cinema 360 have released a 360-degree video documenting the opening five minutes (read: “The Circle of Life”) of The Lion King musical to VR platforms, including Littlstar’s iOS and Android apps, YouTube 360, Vrideo’s app and...
Lytro’s ‘Immerge’ 360 3D Light-field Pipeline is Poised to Redefine VR Video
Lytro have today revealed plans which take the company's expertise in 'still' light-field photography into the realm of VR film. The company have developed a scalable end-to-end solution for shooting, processing, editing and rendering next-generation 360 footage that allows a viewer to...



















