The media and entertainment metaverse will be a unified space that brings multiple virtual worlds together on a single, interoperable M&E-focused platform. It will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. These multiple, interconnected immersive virtual spaces are going to change […]
Real-time 3D (RT3D) significantly enhances the way we render and access 3D models, environments and entire interactive worlds that allows users to interact with them as they are created more-or-less instantly and in context. 3D rendering involves converting 3D wireframe models into 2D images enhanced with photo-realistic, three-dimensional effects. Pre-rendered images are created and presented […]
Disney+ subscribers are enjoying a new eight-minute short film with a difference. While watching Remembering, viewers can use an iOS devices to scan a QR code on their TVs and watch additional content on the small screen. It’s a first for the home of the mouse. The film’s star Brie Larson, who is also the […]
The American Express-sponsored BFI London Film Festival has announced the lineup for the third LFF Expanded, the festival’s immersive art and extended realities strand, which runs from 5 to 16 October. This year’s programme will take place across multiple venues on the South Bank and include interactive virtual reality, screen-based installations, augmented reality, mixed reality, immersive audio experience […]
Ahead of its launch there, HBO and Framestore, who created the VFX for His Dark Materials have got together to build a new augmented reality (AR) iOS and watchOS app for US viewers – His Dark Materials: My Daemon. Custom animal-like manifestation of users’ inner souls, which are created from the results of an in-app […]
Premier League football returns to TV Glenn Cummins, an associate professor at Texas Tech University, is making an academic career from something we all instinctively know – everything’s better when it sounds right and making something that doesn’t look or feel quite right sound better goes some way to improving it. For example, when it […]