Volumetric Video

“Digital Mini Me” → “Augmented Reality Clone.” LEARNTEC 2022, Europe’s largest event for digital education, took place May 31-June 2. Rooom, a platform for creating, managing and sharing 3D, AR and VR experiences, built an impressive experience at LEARNTEC this year using our technology. Event attendees had a chance to meet their own digital Mini Me on a Holodeck through mobile captures taken on Volu. Around 500 attendees lined up to be cloned, which means 500 new volograms in the metaverse!

Volu’s brand-new feature that enables the sharing of volograms headlines the list of improvements in the app’s latest update, probably the most important to date! — Many of you use Volu to create masterpieces in AR that hundreds of thousands enjoy on social media and other platforms. So far, all this is created by “playing” volograms that you captured yourself — please note that “play” in our jargon means visualising a vologram in your own space…

Looking Glass Factory displays are like Virtual Reality without Glasses — A 3D display you can put in the window of your shop that will pull people in. I interviewed Co-Founder & CEO Shawn Frayne of Looking Glass Factory — Article & Interview by Micah Blumberg, about Micah: http://vrma.io These displays are also known as light field displays because they create a 3D image for each of your eyes, it achieves this with special curved…

Bringing real humans into AR, VR, video games or any other 3D platform (Metaverse, anyone?) is a challenge for creators. The complexity, cost and lack of accessibility of established solutions have limited this creative resource to large projects and deep pockets. What if we could solve it with a smartphone, an app and a bunch of open-source tools? — We are so happy to tell you about something we have been working on during the last few months 😃.

January 19th, 2022 She carefully applied red lipstick as if I weren’t there just inches away. I felt self-conscious, as if I were invading her personal space. Which was crazy, I knew, since I was standing with colleagues in a studio at Microsoft, and she was a hologram. It was…

Genesis NFT Collection Sells Out in Less Than 24-Hours June 16, 2021 — For Immediate Release Next level music video lifts the artist off the 2D screen Digital collectors’ name and image displayed on owned NFTs Direct revenue for artists and a step toward the metaverses When The Buggles “Video…

TRY SHUTTERBUG YOURSELF NOW TRY JINGLEBUG YOURSELF NOW December 13th, 2021 Bored with holiday toys? Take it to the next level with Shutterbug the Elf from Popins, a 21st century toy that will entertain for hours. “Shutterbug the Elf is a lifelike 3D hologram who can spread the holiday spirit…

Augmented Reality adds new depth to storytelling 4 new individual characters from Lightfield City — Sister Judith Byrne, Diane Lynn, Savannah and Melody Waltz — just in time for Halloween Popins AR provides a rich canvas for artists, fans, and collectors October 29th, 2021 Podcasts, Dungeons and Dragons, Magic, fan…

Lifelike 3D videos of performing artists appear next to fans to their surprise; Popins joins robust Seattle community in supporting local artists and music. November 23rd, 2021 On November 20th at the star-filled SMASH benefit concert, Seattle start-up Popins premiered a new fun way for people to connect with artists…