Social Media business goes VR According to a recent UploadVR article, almost 20% of Facebook employees (around 10 thousand people) work exclusively on VR/AR/XR technologies now. The authors point out that Facebook’s Oculus division responsible for VR significantly increased the company’s non-advertising revenue from $346 in 2019 up to $885 million in the last three…
Immersive VR & Gender Immersive Social VR technologies, such as AltspaceVR, VRChat or the upcoming Facebook Horizon introduce new means of synchronous online communication. The next-gen, emergent VR technologies allow significant immersion, sense of presence and expressivity while ensuring strong privacy – you choose ‘what to reveal and what to conceal’. That particular property of…
Microsoft and Convergent Media Approach – Ignite Day I – all-in-Immersive-VR event Today COMPACT joined the event organised by another tech giant who made an important step toward convergent media. Microsoft followed the example of the Facebook Connect VR conference and organised an event entirely all-in-Immersive-VR on March 2nd, using their AltspaceVR platform. Microsoft CEO…
Microsoft CEO Speaks at an event organised entirely in VR Microsoft’s largest gathering of technology leaders and practitioners is kicking off in AltspaceVR. Join us for a one-of-a-kind event featuring Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Mixed Reality Technical Fellow Alex Kipman and get a front row seat to Microsoft’s vision for the future of Mixed…
COMPACT Immersive Technologies Symposium: Virtual Reality technology and its impact The objective of the COMPACT project (EC, Horizon 2020) is to increase awareness (including scientific, political, cultural, legal, economic and technical areas) of the latest technological discoveries among key stakeholders in the context of social media and convergence. A fruitful trend in COMPACT three-year research…
COMPACT Horizon 2020 project experience: Virtual Reality communication and its implications Virtual Reality (VR) is more than just a new communication channel. It is an entirely new paradigm of participation. Major VR affordance is Immersion and Presence. By those terms we understand the specific experience of the individual engaged in conversation or interactive activity where…
COMPACT experience: the convergence of Virtual Reality and Mainstream Media As the extended reality technology progresses fast, there is a less and less need for physical presence of the actors and performance in the locations presented to the viewer Also the costs of post-processing such as the efforts required to edit the “Green & Blue”…
Immersion is often discussed during the topic of virtual reality rather like biscuits and tea, but what is immersion and why is it important?
The main problem with VR film is attention. How can we have as filmmakers control what the viewer sees so as to not miss pivotal story elements?
When we first think about scriptwriting, we tend to imagine that of a screenplay or feature film; TV, or Advertisement. We don’t often think about gaming or the virtual world. This thesis aims to explore exactly that. How does the process of scriptwriting change when applied to virtual reality? Are there similarities to current gaming…
If we think about the last decades, everything has become much more story-centric, digital media, visual media, written media, even journalism or advertising uses stories to help themselves sell better
With Virtual Reality emerging quickly as a new and popular media, storytellers have had to learn quickly on how to utilize this media to its potential to deliver a memorable and engaging experience for the audience. Looking at examples from over the years, we can learn about how this media has greater advantages than others…