Nozon volumetric VR

[Vizioen]

http://www.awn.com/news/nozon-chaos-...ut-game-engine

Didn't find anything on the forum so thought I might post this here. This looks incredible but I wonder what kind of output this would be? Would this be viewable on a smartphone for instance?

[YoyoBoy]

How the hell does that even work? Is this the same sort of tech I heard about being used in the 2012 Spiderman movie for room interiors in background buildings?

[werticus]

You can download the demo on steam right now and try it out if you have a vr headset.

Hopefully we can find out more on the 26th about how / when / how much $ etc.

I'm guessing but I suspect it will have very high render times that is based on how large an 'area' you want to be able to move inside of. Because I suspect it is rendering multiple camera views inside of that volume of space and re-projecting the in-between areas.

If this is the case, vlado can probably cleverly make use of an animation flythrough style 'use camera path' pre pass option to speed up the rendering quite a lot.

Maybe vlado will chime in about how it works if he isnt under NDA, and also give me beta access :P

[super gnu]

seems to be the same tech as discussed here:

http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...merge-VR-syste

i note that in that thread Vlado gave no hint of involvement in such a project, just the *possibility* of a collaboration. tbh he didnt even seem particularly interested, considering the tech looks killer. :P

mysterious! maybe this demo has come about since then.

[^Lele^]

"[...] However we are open to cooperation with other companies that do, like Nozon and Lytro."
From your link.
Thing is, Nozon was already at EUE a year ago presenting VR done with us, so where was the big secret?

[super gnu]

you are right of course, but it seems like magic

[^Lele^]

ah, now, yes. damn, yes!

[Laserschwert]

I really hope that volumetric lightfield rendering like this will just come to VRay, without shelling out another 10s of Ks of $s ...

[cheerioboy]

This looks promising. But when PresenZ was first released on Steam as a demo I had a lot of problems viewing it. Crashing, etc. But I love this idea 100x more than rendering static stereo panos...

[werticus]

The presenz demo didnt work for me at all until a recent update, maybe try it again cheerio

[pixelplume]

curious about this!

[Nicinus]

Their demos looks really good, very similar to a Vive experience in that the environment 'stays still' when you move around your head. This makes a big difference in terms of immersion.

However, the existing zone seems hard coded to a limit of a 3 feet square zone with about 1.5 feet vertically. It is meant to give a room experience sitting down. Definitely an improvement over a regular 360 pano but it would be great if it could have at least a 10 foot moving area. I've only tested with Rift but from what I understand there have been tech demos with larger zones using Vive. The files gets very larger and you need their player.

[werticus]

It needs a lot of ram too, 12gb to run.

[Robert Everhardt]

https://vimeo.com/175554263

http://www.cgsociety.org/news/articl...-a-game-engine

Presenz demo and vray looks very cool,
but how do you move freely lets say on a tablet?
"so you can view with a group" or is this only
for one person with a head mounted device?

[vlado]

From what I was told, the parallax support is quite GPU-intensive and is only supported on desktops right. For phones and tablets, the data will be converted to a standard 360 stereo view.

Best regards,
Vlado