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YouTube video by Bilawal Sidhu The 3D Sports Experience That Changes Everything

Providing these features is slowly becoming cost-effective, which means they can actually be delivered to viewers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dSn...

VR fitness is not for everyone, but it is a very real positive thing in the life of a large amount of very real people. Many playing multiple times a week

Crowd reaction to Supernatural "soft shutdown" and reviews for rhythm & fitness games like FitXR, Beat Saber and many others serve as evidence

Racket Pinball on Meta Quest Step into Racket Pinball, where classic pinball meets racket sports in groundbreaking VR! Armed with rackets, unleash powerful shots in immersive environments inspired by Pirates, Space, and Wild West...

Mash together two well-known things to create something instantly captivating? Might look like this ---> Into the pile of next games/workouts to test!

Racket Pinball www.meta.com/en-gb/experi...

Good Virtual Reality | Ian Hamilton | Substack Good places to visit in virtual reality as recommended by Ian Hamilton and partners. Click to read Good Virtual Reality, by Ian Hamilton, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

I signed up for the new best place for VR and immersive technology reporting. I hope you will too.
goodvr.substack.com

What Immersive can learn from the streaming market And what it *should* pay attention to

Three big bad A's -- ads, algos and analytics

Agree that convincing ways to understand ROI are sorely needed

paulmezier.substack.com/p/what-immer...

Step change in comfort, no!? Eager to get to verify in our own daily use

Separate tracks for Horizon and VR certainly makes sense, e.g. don't let the mobile focus water down the truly immersive experiences

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#xr #spatialcomputing #visionpro | Phil Traut It’s crazy how well Vision Pro tracks the hands and Muse Pen at the same time. A great example is the “Spatial Tattoo” app, which lets you learn how to give tattoos while overlaying your hands with ...

Finally an alternative for tattooing yourself and your friends while young, drunk & drugged?

www.linkedin.com/posts/phil-t...

Still in the "slowly" phase of "slowly, then suddenly"

Or this career mode style thing, but as a semi-documentary experience chronicling a real band over 1-3 years of shows in different size venues, reshuffled/fictionized so that the player experiences progression towards larger stages in the shoes of one of the band members

bsky.app/profile/uplo...

How about this, but so that the background is live footage from the stage in a concert

E.g. you are the drummer/guitarist and are seeing your bandmates and an excited crowd

We are pushing forward in the space of capturing and streaming immersive 3D live sports & concerts -- if you're also curious, would love to connect!

www.donkeyhotel.fi/contact/

First NBA game has aired and folks who watched are posting highly hype comments. The usual "GAME CHANGER!" etc -- knowing the quality of VisionPro, it's easy to believe though

www.linkedin.com/posts/hughho...

Related & more visual: bsky.app/profile/nath...

Apple Immersive Lakers Schedule Reserves Live NBA Games For Local Viewers Find a friend with Apple Vision Pro "in Southern California, Hawaii, and parts of Nevada" to watch the Lakers live in VR.

So curious to see these Immersive NBA games live in headset. Good excuse for a Hawaii trip right? 🏄

www.uploadvr.com/apple-immers...

Our background is in cine (doc & fiction) so the kind of light control that Steve Yedlin describes here is very fascinating. Really cool to be able to drive most LEDs in a color-accurate way and even ride faders to subtly match light changes during exterior shot

castro.fm/episode/2Q6e3W

Tethered puck is an annoyance, but seems worth it if it can provide great resolution & framerate as well as comfort for extended periods and a sleek form factor

Looking fwd to seeing the turntable of this. Still missing plenty of key details regarding shape, fit and weight

We have a running protoype of a player application with user-selectable POV. Initial impressions very positive

Also got multicam immersive footage from live shows -- not Wembley scale yet but hey step by step

Get in touch if interested in testing with your content or developing further together

Coldplay concert in Quest VR

Good:
- Decent image with occasional nice stereo/3D
- Variety of POVs

Improve:
- TV style cut pace (~5sec/shot) reduces presence
- Horizon 3D avatar navigation gets in the way
- Do spatial audio instead of stereo
- User-selectable POV?

horizon.meta.com/event/115025...

Dual Knit Band Quest 3 Mod Balances Meta With Apple Adding a Dual Knit Band to Quest 3 provides Apple balance to Meta headsets.

Another data point helping get the 'ski goggles' XR form factor figured out in terms of comfort for majority of population and use cases

Some key ingredients:
- top strap
- counterweight
- gentle pressure for sealing light
- can rest on back

www.uploadvr.com/dual-knit-ba...

New categories in YoutubeVR spatial tab for VR180 and "spatialized" (2D to 3D conversion) videos...

Looks like they're getting ready for a big release.
Let's hope it also comes with a big update for this mess of an app.

Not yet, but would be fascinating to test

Seems like the benefit would be freedom in post production (e.g. freely choose camera paths)

Cons would be large rigs and data sizes and processing times. Seems more direct to just capture stereo fisheye/wideFOV

4D splats may also be better viewed 6DOF

YouTube video by Apple TV World of Red Bull: Backcountry Skiing | Apple Vision Pro

BTS (spoiler alert — skip this for now if you’re planning to watch in headset)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy23...

World of Red Bull - Apple TV Get ready for a rush like no other. Tackle the biggest waves, tallest mountains, and fastest speeds with Red Bull’s fearless athletes.

"World of Red Bull: Backcountry Skiing" for Vision Pro

Boy the sense of presence at a mountaintop heli drop and a narrow canyon line is insane — So must also be the complexity of production

BTS link in thread

Actual clip in Apple TV (need the headset to watch): tv.apple.com/gb/show/worl...

Radiant Images Introduces 4D Gaussian Splat System for Immersive Video | Michael Mansouri posted on the topic | LinkedIn Introducing Radiant Images's new mobile 4D Gaussian Splat system, designed to capture objects, people, and environments in fully navigable in a 6DoF immersive video where the viewer can both look arou...

New genlock-capable iPhone + dock released some months ago —> as expected, now these splat rigs are starting to show up more and more. Exciting tech, especially 4DGS a.k.a ”video splats”

Though our specialty is in Immersive Video / stereoscopic / VR180, we are watching this space closely

VR is becoming good for daily use, for work, exercise and entertainment. @ednewtonrex.bsky.social spent a week in VR with Guest 3 goggles and was amazed. #VirtualReality #MixedReality #VR #Quest

YouTube video by gamaverse.online — free games DOOM: THE GALLERY EXPERIENCE

Some art for this week! These mods were popular back in the day. The wine glass and hors d'oeuvres are a brilliant idea! 👍🎨🧑‍🎨🖼️ #Doom #Art #DigitalArt youtu.be/WiqaloIBsvE?...

Meta stops selling the Quest Pro But you can still buy its Touch Pro controllers.

Meta stops selling Oculus Pro goggles. Will there be a new high price point device from Meta, or are they concentrating on more consumer devices? #Meta #Oculus #VirtualReality #MixedReality www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243...

We visited #Nokia Innovation Garage in Espoo and played with Nokia 5G 360 camera – live 360° streaming really is something! Big thanks to Mikael Lindblad, Tuomas Korpela & Veli-Pekka Luoma #rxrm #mixedreality #virtualreality #360video #donkeyhotelthe