Where the Imagination Takes Us

VFX & Series

Reimagining the Trek Universe for Discovery

Sweet Tooth: Urban Decay and Hybrid Creatures 

Supernatural & Racial Menace in Lovecraft Country
1859 Harper's Ferry & the Good Lord Bird

WandaVision: Sitcom Reality & the Marvel Universe
The Right Stuff: Period Authenticity & Modern Tech
Solar Opposites: One Animated Sitcom, Two Worlds

Recreating the 1850s World of Emily Dickinson

 

VFX & Movies

Space Sweepers: High-Production Korean Sci-Fi

Dolittle Balances Photorealism and Personality

 How the Avengers Movies Impacted Visual Effects

 

 

VFX Studios, Business, Schools & Streaming

Streaming is Reshaping Global Entertainment

LED Walls and Stages on the Rise

The VFX Business in 2022: Swoon to Boom  

Netflix: A Robust Provider of Upper-Tier VFX

VFX and Animation Schools

ILM: Swedish VFX Talents

 

 

VFX & Theme Parks

Avatar: Flight of Passage

The World of Theme Parks and VFX 

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Roundtable: Theme Parks and VFX

 

 

Video Games

Video Games Surge in Lockdown Boom

 
VR/AR

Tales from the Galaxy's Edge: Batuu

Myst VR & His Dark Materials AR

Live Immersive VR Theater

VR Party Games

Exploring Virtual Communities in Social VR

Beat Saber, Half Life & Vader VR

Cloudhead Games: VR Multitasking

 Augmented Reality Catches a Wave

Graham Sack and Lincoln in the Bardo
Cycles: Disney's First VR Film

VR Experience Catches On With Musicians 

 Dr. Who Immerses in Virtual Reality

Myth: a Frozen Tale VR

 

 

Consumer Tech

5G Will Turbo-Charge Streaming, VR, AR & Video Games

Eco Index
The Importance of Being Cerrado
Biofuels Could Eat Brazil's Savannas & Deforest the Amazon
The Baru Nut: Brazil's New Superfood

Can Primeval Forests Save the Southwest? (WWETAC website)

John Allen: Restoring Oregon's Forests (WWETAC website)
The Deodar Tree: Sacred Conifer from the Himalayas

VR / AR / XR

Cloudhead Games: VR Multitasking

BY CHRIS McGOWAN

The Gallery: Call of the Emberstone (VR game)

If you’ve teleported inside a VR experience or used snap-turns to rotate then you’ve already experienced some of Cloudhead Games’ contributions to the modern VR industry, according to co-founder and CEO Denny Unger. In addition, their pioneering efforts in VR hand interactions caught the attention of Valve, who approached them to create a demo on Valve Index hand controllers. And Cloudhead has been a pioneer in using VR performance capture, using it for its 2016 VR adventure-fantasy The Gallery: Call of the Starseed, which won multiple awards. Its 2019 first-person-shooter VR game Pistol Whip was similarly much lauded. Cloudhead Games is nothing if not a VR multi-tasker. Read more (at VFX Voice).

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Consumer Tech

5G Will Turbo-Charge Streaming, VR, AR,
Video Games, Interactive Movies and VFX

 

By CHRIS McGOWAN

 Minecraft: The Multiplayer Giant Will Get a Boost

With its blazing speed, 5G – the next generation of wireless technology – is expected to spark plentiful innovations and burgeoning growth in entertainment and the arts, especially for streaming media, video games, virtual reality and augmented reality, all of which will create new opportunities for content creators and visual effects artists. “All of a sudden, people will have more access to high-quality data streams, very fast, with low latency,” according to David Bloom, a Santa Monica-based writer and consultant who tracks the collision of technology and entertainment. For television, there will be options galore as 5G will bolster IP services that stream “all your different video content.” That different content may include new forms of interactive TV, music and advertising. Read more in VFX Voice.

 Black Mirror's interactive episode "Bandersnatch"

Read more in VFX Voice

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