CG SOCIETY
- VR IS A FANTASTIC BEAST Framestore’s Andy Rowan-Robinson on building interaction and expanding narratives in virtual reality. The Evolution of VR Storytelling
- YOU GOT THIS: AN ANIMATOR-TURNED-VR CREATOR’S 5 TAKEAWAYS ON GIVING VIRTUAL REALITY A GO
- Our new initiative to help you embrace VR
- Can you afford to miss the virtual train?
- What they don’t tell you about 360° VR production
- Galvanized Souls get the 360° treatment
- VR? AR? MR? Sorry, I’m confused.
- Human anatomy and limited technology: the barriers to truly immersive VR. Virtual reality is on the verge of mainstream adoption, but we’re a long way off experiences realistic enough to be indistinguishable from real life. So how can we create genuinely convincing, immersive VR?
Virtual reality plug-in toolset for NUKE
CARA VR™—the much-anticipated new plug-in toolset for the NUKE® family of compositing, editorial and finishing products—helps you to create incredible live-action virtual reality content.
With a specialised toolset that includes headset review, CARA VR dramatically speeds up the challenging and often tedious process of stitching and compositing 360° video footage, so you have more time to focus on creating high-quality immersive experiences.
Ana Serrano is the Chief Digital Officer at the Canadian Film Centre and Founder of CFC Media Lab, the world-renowned institute for interactive storytelling. We spoke with Ana who spoke at our 360 Vision event about her experiences with VR and what trends she’s noticed over the last year.
MediaMonks bends reality with CARA VR
Google Earth VR is now shaping the future of travel
What they don’t tell you about 360° VR production
Will VR fundamentally change the way filmmakers approach their craft?
How HBO created a Westworld VR experience that lets you step into the show
CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION
Majority of VR users say it will revitalise media, education, work, social interaction, travel and retail.
Seven out of 10 early adopters of virtual and/or augmented reality hardware have bought into the buzz and firmly feel that the technology is set to disrupt media, education, work, social interaction, travel and retail.
Using Virtual Reality to Treat PTSD
A documentary about a clinic in Los Angeles that uses virtual reality simulations to treat war veterans with PTSD. Hosted by a former master sniper for the Canadian military, this documentary short explores the efficacy of these systems to treat a still-mysterious mental condition.
Predicting a Film In VR: Behind the Scenes
Virtual reality films are fun to watch, but there’s a ton of work that goes into creating them. We sat down with Here Be Dragons to understand the effort behind their films. Watch the behind the scenes video here.
ABC Creates Immersive Virtual Reality Experience
BLENDERSUSHI / AN 360 VR Gallery (LIVENODING227)
Daryl continues to add visual complexity to the environment in his VR creation. He shares a workflow using Arnold to get image-based lighting onto texture maps so they can be layered on top of the reality captured environment. Follow along on the Journey to VR blog as Daryl builds his first VR experience: autode.sk/J2VR
THE MOLECULE ON INVISIBLE
VR’s first scripted series sheds new light on medium’s unknowns by April Robinson
The Molecule, says CEO Chris Healer, is very good at solving unique challenges. So when 30 Ninjas came calling with a scripted VR series to be directed by its principal, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) and shot by Jaunt VR, Chris and his team were all in. In his words, “It made so much sense.”
Based on a screenplay by Julina Tatlock and Oscar-winning screenwriter Melisa Wallack, the mystery series centers on an heiress’ quest to guard her recently deceased grandfather’s estate and the family’s supernatural secrets. The story, told over five, roughly six-minute episodes, marks the first attempt at using virtual reality as an episodic-friendly, storytelling format while challenging many of VR’s current known truths.
SCREEN NSW videos from our virtual reality event: 360 Vision – Virtual Reality Lab
Check out our six new videos with screen producers and VR pioneers sharing their thoughts on where VR is heading, what the future could look like and what could make the next great VR project, now available for your inspiration. The videos come from our 2016 virtual reality event, 360 Vision, which was presented by Screen NSW, ABC, Screen Australia, Event Cinemas and AFTRS. The videos capture the conversation from the day and include talks by Collisions creator and 360 Vision Mentor Lynette Wallworth, Rose Troche: internationally renowned director, producer and screenwriter, Ana Serrano, Gabo Arora and Barry Pousman to name a few.
Journey to VR
AUTODESK
VR Dreaming: hopes and predictions for where virtual reality is headed in 2017
You got this: An animator-turned-VR creator’s 5 takeaways on giving virtual reality a go
AUTODESK UNIVERSITY
VR, AR, and the cloud were definitively top-of-mind for design visualizations artists and architects at this year’s event. Want to watch a missed class?
MEL Chemistry VR
The Now and Future of Virtual Reality for Design Visualization
VFX Workflows for Architectural Visualization
Procedural PBR Material Creation Using Substance Designer for Visualization
Positioning and Marketing a Skyscraper – 432 Park Avenue
Render Like a Photographer
The Making of a Virtual Film for Architecture and Real Estate
AUGMENTED REALITY
360º
Vimeo: The fundamentals of 360
- All the terms you need to know to create 360 video
- Beyond the frame: tips for nailing 360 video shots
- The key things to consider when shooting 360 video
- Breaking down the 360 video editing process
- 3 film genres perfectly suited for 360 video
- Your home for high-quality video (now including 360)
- Diary of a 360 video: recording Grandaddy’s live concert
- 360 videos you should be watching
- Vimeo 360: the new home for immersive storytelling
VIDEO GAMES
EPIC GAMES Unreal Engine
If You Love Something, Set It Free. You can download the engine and use it for everything from game development, education, architecture, and visualization to VR, film and animation. When you ship a game or application, you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter. It’s a simple arrangement in which we succeed only when you succeed.
5 IndieGoGo projects to keep an eye on
Who says the creativity well has run dry? We’re still seeing a number of innovative entrepreneurs making waves in 2017. You’ll find a lot of them pitching their ideas on crowd-funding websites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, where anyone can pledge some money to support new products and business ideas.
Battlefield 1 Making a Game on The Great War
WORDS OF WISDOM FROM SUCCESSFUL INDIE DEVS Looking to see what it takes to become a successful indie developer? You’ve come to right place. We spoke to ten game devs and asked for their words of wisdom on making it in the indie world.
10 OF THE SCARIEST EXPRESSIONS IN GAME DEVELOPMENT
OUR TOP GAME PICKS for 2017 iiNet
With a number of great games in the lineup, you might not know where to start when it comes to planning out your pre-orders or tactical secondhand purchases.
SPACEBAR 1962 Steve Russell
COMPUTER SPACE 1971 Nolan Bushnell, PONG 1972 Atari
PAC-MAN, PuckMan Tori Iwatani ARGO version, PONG,
ASTEROIDS, AMPED, ACCLAIM
BLOOD WAKE, BUBBLE BUBBLE
CRAVE, CAPCOOM, CENTIPEDE
DOOM, DEAD or ALIVE 3, DEFENDER, DONKEY KING, DIG DUG
FROGGER
GALAZIBAN
HALO
INTERPLAY
JOUST
LUCAS ARTS
MYST, MISSILE COMMAND, MOON PATROL
NAMCO
ODD WORLD: MUNCH’S ODDYSEE
PROJECT GOTHAM. POOYAN, PENGO
Q*BERT, QIX
SEGA, SIERRA ENTERTAINMENT, SHREK, SUPER MARIO BROS 3, SPACE INVADERS, SCRABBLE
TAKE-TWO, TIME-PILOT, TEMPEST
UBI SOFT
ZAXXON
MAME ENTERTAINMENT: originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important “vintage” software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.
MACMAME: is part of the MAME project, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of arcade videogames via emulation. MacMAME achieves this by running the original program code found in the arcade games. As such, it is much more than a reproduction, it is essentially that same game running via an emulated layer inside your Macintosh. On this site you’ll find the most current build of MacMAME, information about upcoming versions and instructions for using it. Please look around and enjoy reliving some of the games that made going to video arcades an enjoyable part of our pop culture. You can move to various parts of the site by clicking on the headings to the left.
Video Game Archive for ROM images to download and play with MAME
Original Xbox Retrospective: 2001 – 2002 (PART 1)
