Virtual Reality Content Creation using Unity 3D and Blender

Developing virtual reality applications with Unity

This tutorial will provide an introduction to Unity (http://www.unity3D.com) and several VR components that are designed to work with Unity. These VR components can be used in isolation or pieced together to provide fully immersive VR experiences. Unity is a feature rich multi-platform game engine for the creation of interactive 3D content. It includes an intuitive interface while at the same t...

Streaming Virtual Reality Content

The recent rise of interest in Virtual Reality (VR) came with the availability of commodity commercial VR products, such as the Head Mounted Displays (HMD) created by Oculus and other vendors. To accelerate the user adoption of VR headsets, content providers should focus on producing high quality immersive content for these devices. Similarly, multimedia streaming service providers should enabl...

Automated Creation of Image-Based Virtual Reality∗

While virtual reality is a powerful tool for a range of applications, it has the following two associated overheads that fundamentally limit its usefulness: (1) The creation of realistic synthetic virtual environment models is difficult and labour intensive; (2) The computing resources needed to render realistic complex environments in real time are substantial. In this paper, we describe an ap...

Content Creation for Technical Research Centre of Finland's Virtual Reality System, Lumeportti

Interactive Content Creation with Virtual Set Environments

Digital broadcasting enables interactive TV, which presents new challenges for interactive content creation. Besides the technology for streaming and viewing, tools and systems are under development that extend traditional TV studios with virtual set environments. This presentation reviews current technology and describes the requirements for such systems. Interoperability over the production, ...