IVRPA Tokyo 2018 Google Street View Challenge Winner’s Gallery The winners of this year’s Google Street View Challenge is a friendly panorama photography competition between IVRPA members attending the annual conference. Grand prize receives $250 in Walkinto credit and an Oculus Go headset. 1st place in each category receives an Oculus Go headset. 2nd… Read More
Call for Volunteers The International Virtual Reality Professionals Association is looking for creative, energetic volunteers to join the team! We need your help to further develop the IVRPA community, building meaningful online relationships with creators, developers and consumers. Who you are? You are an expert in building dynamic, high quality online and real-world communities and… Read More
2018 Virtual Reality Trends: AirPano Experience AirPano is a project created by a team of Russian photographers focused on taking high-resolution aerial 360° photographs and 360° video. At the IVRPA Tokyo 2018 Conference Sergey Semenov will provide updates on the work of the AirPano team in 2018 including: • 2018 VR and 360 trends. •… Read More
How 360/VR Strengthens the Audience-Brand Relationship? Blend Media, the world’s leading provider in distributing, producing and curating 360˚ content, will be hosting a panel debate with insights on how 360°/VR can improve the audience-brand relationship. The panel discussion will focus on discussing how to maximise ROI from 360° campaigns, best practices for pitching 360° projects… Read More
Panel Debate: The Future of 360º Video and Photos There is a large quantity of stunning high quality 360 photography being produced. What are the challenges of bringing that same level of quality into 360 videos? What are some of the biggest challenges for 360 video and photography to become widely adopted? Is monetization… Read More
How to Create Immersive VR Content Beyond Boundaries VeeR is a global VR content platform with the mission of empowering everyone to create and share virtual reality content. With VeeR, you can simply upload VR content through mobile or web, share it with audience over 180 countries, and gain comprehensive insights from your VeeR data… Read More
Latest Innovations Directly from the Google Street View Team Join Amit Morya, a Program Manager with Google Street View, at Tokyo 2018 – IVRPA 360° Virtual Reality Panoramic Photography & 360° Video Conference as attendees learn about a number of new Google Street View compatible publishing products and provides IVRPA members with a summary of… Read More
Augmented Filmmaking: Embedded Narratives and Experiential Environments Immersive media adds new opportunities and layers within content creation and filmmaking – exploring new storytelling techniques, nuances and interaction layers. The growth, expansion and overlap of immersive technology capabilities would mean that filmmaking will embed more interactive narratives across both mediums and environments. We can already see… Read More
Kolor Focus Group: Immersive Storytelling Workshop Be heard. Software experts Benjamin Baudel & Raphaël Roux from Kolor would like to listen to you and learn more about your usage and what you expect from a VR storytelling software tool at their workshop during IVRPA Tokyo 2018 Conference. All participants will get a little gift and… Read More
Kandao – Explore the Next-Gen Virtual Reality Imaging: From Stereo to Depth As virtual reality hits the masses, new ways of creating content immersive experience are being explored, by both on-field experienced creators to leading VR camera manufacturer. Being the developer of the renowned professional VR camera Obsidian, Kandao keeps finding solutions that remove technical… Read More
Maximising Commercial Potential of 360º Content in the Lead up to Tokyo 2020 Olympics The Tokyo 2020 Olympics may seem a long way away but agencies, brands, and sponsors are furiously working on strategies to maximise coverage on an Olympian level. Audience engagement is paramount, innovation key and expectation huge, so never before has there… Read More
FPE: First Person Emotion At the IVRPA Tokyo 2018 Conference Mohamed Marouene from SoWhen? will talk about how he used First Person Point of View to generate the emotion needed for their prevention campaign for the SNCF. at the IVRPA Tokyo 2018 Conference. He will discuss the challenges encountered: ∙ Creating the ExOZO their exoskeleton for… Read More
Compositing 3D VR Video from Stereo Photos and Videos Workshop Takashi Sekitani at the IVRPA Tokyo 2018 Conference will offer a workshop to explain about how to handle stereoscopic graphics including stereo photo/video, 3D-180VR video, 3D-360VR video in stereo Virtual Reality. As basic introduction of stereoscopic 3D, he will first explain how to shoot stereo… Read More
Launching World’s First Panoramic Virtual Reality Camera with in Camera 8K Video Stitching Eric Wang from Pisofttech, a technology company developing state-of-the-art technologies in computer vision and artificial intelligence, will introduce the world’s first VR 360° camera with 8K video stitching in camera and 6K real-time stitching at the IVRPA Tokyo 2018 Conference. With the… Read More
高解像度パノラマ 撮影とオーサリングの基本 – High Resolution Panoramic Shooting & Authoring Workshop Explanation of the workflow in which a stitch error does not occur reliably in the photographing method of a high-resolution panorama using a diagonal fish-eye lens, “horizontal 6 + zenith + nadir” shooting method. This workshop will be held in Japanese. 対角魚眼レンズを使った、高解像度パノラマの撮影の基本形、「水平６枚＋真上＋真下」撮影方法で、確実にスティッチエラーが発生しないワークフローを日本語でお話します。内容は下記の通り。 ・撮影機材の選び方 ・No Parallax… Read More
IVRPA - The International Virtual Reality Professionals Association is an international association of photographers who create and produce 360° Panoramas and other Virtual Reality Content including 360° Video, 360° Virtual Tours, Gigapixel Panoramas, and more.
This website showcases both our members and VR Photography community enthusiasts, and serves as a central place for news and communication for the 360° VR industry.
Professional and amateur and 360° VR photographers are encouraged to Join IVRPA and participate on this website.