Martin Hopkins of Garden Gnome Software will be holding a series of workshops throughout the conference with a focus on learning the basics and building up to more advanced workflows incorporating Floor Plans in your tours, outputting for WebVR, and creating custom skins. Project media will be provided. Date and time for this series of… Read More
At IVRPA Belfast 2019, Alin Bugeag of GoThru Media Inc. will be introducing a new technology for the virtual tours market: Progressive Web Applications (PWA) which can be described by having a web virtual tour to function like a native app. The content of the virtual tour automatically gets downloaded to the device, creating an… Read More
What’s beyond the representation of the real world, beyond the simulation of an imaginary one? A deep immersion in new languages and possibilities of VR, in that place that’s between arts and sciences. Sabetta Matsumoto will guide us in worlds that are far away from our native perception experiences, thanks to an uncommon and rather… Read More
Thomas Rauscher will present the latest features of Pano2VR version 6. You’ll learn about new functionalities in the Skin Editor; Pano2VR’s powerful overlay editor that allows not only custom overlays but also custom instructions for interaction. Thomas will show you how to best present your work in WebVR… Read More
QooCam 360° / 3D 180° All-in-one Camera Review 4K camera QooCam that not only shoots 360 video and photos but also supports VR180 mode with the unique rotatable design. The different Qoocam settings modes are: QooCam also offers more than 180 hours shooting battery life and good audio quality, F.2.2 Shutter speed 60 secs… Read More
How to bring the concept of virtual shopping to market as a viable, commercial product for the mainstream audience, and how to do it today. We will demonstrate how we managed to do just that, explaining the evolution of our approach through 3 different virtual shops we build. We will talk about what we learned… Read More
Why is 3D sound so important in narrative VR? In which part of the process should you start working with sound? How can VR sickness be addressed through clever sound work? Focusing on my experience with the 360 film “The Goldfish Theory” I’m going to present my experience with using Sound Design in VR story-telling.… Read More
Spring has sprung and we’re doing it again! 💐 You could win a FREE license of Corel’s VideoStudio Ultimate 2019. 🤗 To enter, leave a COMMENT on this post that is featured on our Facebook page. The contest will close, and the winner will be selected randomly on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, @ 9:00 am… Read More
The potential for VR for Africa is just huge. All VR players wishing to expand and reach new markets are welcome to join us in the initiative to reach Africa. You will discover how the strategic location of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean can serve as your regional headquarters. Leveraging technological development, Mauritius has clearly… Read More
What kinds of post-process transformations make sense for immersive photographs and video? We can rotate the sphere, but is there an analog to zoom in flat video? It turns out that there is a not-so-obvious, but mathematically natural way to zoom. As an application, we use this to create looping worlds. Other functions can “unwrap”… Read More
Virtual Reality is much older than one might think — it actually began with the stereoscope, back in the 1850s, when stereoscopy became a craze and millions of cards were produced over a relatively short period. Stereo cards allowed the Victorians to discover a world few had actually seen for real but that they could… Read More
Joshua Krook will present a behind the scenes look at the storytelling of The Cinema Rosa: PC Game a story-driven narrative adventure game set in an abandoned art deco cinema that’s filled with dark mysteries, puzzles and ghosts. Can you bring peace to these haunted hallways and bring back the Golden Age of Hollywood, or… Read More
VR is not mainstream… and that’s a problem for all of us! For our industry to survive and grow, we need to build our audience. To do that, we must provide engaging content to attract more viewers into headsets. Rachel and Brad, 360/VR filmmakers, will explain how 360 documentary storytelling is the perfect entry point… Read More
Photographic virtual reality is going to get a lot more realistic. Stereoscopic 360 is just the beginning. Soon it will be normal to display 3D VR photos and videos in 6 degrees-of-freedom, that is, with real parallax shifts in response to head motion, like immersive versions of the popular Facebook 3D images. This will not… Read More
This week we’re excited to welcome Stella Galamo to the IVRPA as our new Intern for Spring 2019. Stella is a student in her final year at the African Leadership University Mauritius working towards a BSc(Hons) in Computing Science. For IVRPA, she will be working directly with the board of directors and helping out… Read More