Author: Motion Spell

In the third and last of our series of articles on the VRTogether Orchestrator (you can read Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them) we cover the details of its current API. In the following paragraphs, we will go into details of each categories of services: Authentication and logging The first step a [...]

This is the second of a series of articles about the VRTogeter Orchestrator. Read Part 1 here. In terms of technologies the central Orchestrator component relies on the Node.js open-source platform where its integrated API is implemented in JavaScript. The protocol exchange benefits from the socket.io API, distributed under MIT licensing model, which enables real-time [...]

VRTogether is a world class consortium of research entities and companies looking at evaluating the “togetherness” in VR. The VRTogether project is focused on the real-time photo-realistic 3D capture and the integration of a live-avatar into complex scenarios allowing to share virtual experience together. Since the main goal of the VRTogether project is to share [...]

VR-Together is an ambitious project aiming at pushing the boundaries of Social VR. This requires partners to keep up to date and participate in research and standardization activities. VR-Together project partner Motion Spell joined the last MPEG meeting (#126) in Geneva. Following VR and Immersive Media activities, Motion Spell put in light many developments regarding [...]

Introduction Although VR has been a buzz word for the past few years, VR experience delivery is still at its infancy. There are some products starting to use tiles and other techniques to broadcast VR videos but real deployments still stream flat equirectangular videos. There are no standards able to stream and merge 3D models […]