Let's put that old "VR video isn't really VR" debate to rest. Felix & Paul bring #Presence to the game.

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I found Matterport at Game Developer's Conference 2013. I bugged them to let me be a beta tester and after some time they let me buy a camera. I brought my rig to the first Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Meetup at the Computer History Museum where I demoed a model to Paul Grasshoff and/or Matt Bell of Matterport and Nate Mitchell of Oculus using nVIDIA 3D Vision 2 glasses. Nate really liked it. Viewing the models this way was truly stunning and a glimpse of what is to come when VR goggles finally catch up in fidelity.

I spent the last few hours digging out my 3D Vision 2 glasses to try out my models on the Matterport website. Yes, stereo used to just work. All I had to do was use the test app in the nVIDIA control panel with the glasses, then go to a model through the web interface. It didn't work for me tonight, so I'll bug Matt and Paul of Matterport about it.

I don't think the stereo feature was intended with nVIDIA 3D Vision glasses and it just happened to work at the beginning.

Of course, I can still download the OBJ files of a Matterport model and use other software to get them into the Rift. There has got to be other software that would work with nVIDIA 3D Vision 2 glasses. However, having "the whole world attached to your head" as Paul Debevec at ICT would, can give me a bit of nausea.

The first versions of the Matterport models allowed moving about pixel by pixel in any direction, but of course had artifacts such as globs and holes.

Light Field Rendering seems to be the way to go, but would also suffer from holes if you moved too far from the capture point with occlusions in the scene. Stitching multiple light field captures at different locations in a static scene might resolve the occlusion issues, however this could take a process that is already extraordinarily computer intensive and make it much more so.

Matterport asked me to share my model of USS Midway for use in their Gear VR gallery app. It should be on page two.

USS Midway CV-41 https://my.matterport.com/models/kjbewhGNupB

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