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Aboard the Mayflower
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE · MAYFLOWER In November 1620, the passengers and crew of the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts and established a colony there. Among them were Puritan Reformists who had crossed the ocean to found a community in accordance with their...
3D Character Creation for Interactive VR
PRODUCTION · VR-TOGETHER The third year of VRTogether is in full swing, and despite the recent pandemic scare our consortium is hard at work creating the technology and content for our third-year pilot. As we have described before, pilot 3 will involve an interactive...
I Know You! The Importance of Accurate Self-Representation in VR
RESEARCH · AVATAR LIKENESS At the heart of the VR-Together project lies the objective to enable social VR experiences with strong feelings of immersion as well as co-presence. To achieve this strong social sense of sharing a space together, photorealistic real-time...
Geneva 1850: A Revolutionary Journey
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE · GENEVA 1850 We are proud to announce the opening of the VR experience Geneva 1850: A Revolutionary Journey co-produced by Artanim and the Museums of Art and History of Geneva. The immersive...
Dreamscape Opens Its First Permanent VR Storefront
DREAMSCAPE · FLAGSHIP STORE OPENING Dreamscape Immersive, the story-oriented VR company leveraging Artanim's VR technology and whose backers include movie chain AMC Entertainment and several Hollywood heavyweights (MGM,...
Your Body Feels Good
RESEARCH · BODY PERCEPTION Do you feel in control of the body that you see? This is an important question in virtual reality (VR) as it highly impacts the user’s sensation of presence and embodiment of an avatar representation while immersed in a virtual environment....
Shooting of the VR-Together Pilot 1
BEHIND THE SCENES · VR-TOGETHER Artanim collaborated with Entropy Studio on the shooting of the first pilot of the VR-Together project. After a short flight from Madrid to Geneva, the actors were 3D scanned with our photogrammetric scanner consisting of 96 cameras, to...
New Venues for Capturing Facial Performance
TECHNOLOGY · FACIAL CAPTURE We will soon start shooting cinematic content to be used for showcasing the technology developed by the VR-Together consortium. In this post, we bring some of the production effort developed at Artanim, which is currently exploring the use...