Capture4VR: From VR Photography to VR Video

Christian Richardt¹    Peter Hedman²    Ryan S. Overbeck³    Brian Cabral⁴    Robert Konrad⁵    Steve Sullivan⁶

¹ University of Bath    ² University College London    ³ Google    ⁴ Facebook    ⁵ Stanford University    ⁶ Microsoft

SIGGRAPH 2019 Course

Thursday 1 August 2019, 14:00–17:15, Los Angeles Convention Center, Theatre 411

Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) enables the display of dynamic visual content with unparalleled realism and immersion. However, VR is also still a relatively young medium that requires new ways to author content, particularly for visual content that is captured from the real world. This course, therefore, provides a comprehensive overview of the latest progress in bringing photographs and video into VR. Ultimately, the techniques, approaches and systems we discuss aim to faithfully capture the visual appearance and dynamics of the real world, and to bring it into virtual reality to create unparalleled realism and immersion by providing freedom of head motion and motion parallax, which is a vital depth cue for the human visual system. In this half-day course, we take the audience on a journey from VR photography to VR video that began more than a century ago but which has accelerated tremendously in the last five years. We discuss both commercial state-of-the-art systems by Facebook, Google and Microsoft, as well as the latest research techniques and prototypes.

@inproceedings{Capture4VR,
  author    = {Christian Richardt and
               Peter Hedman and
               Ryan S. Overbeck and
               Brian Cabral and
               Robert Konrad and
               Steve Sullivan},
  title     = {{Capture4VR}: From {VR} Photography to {VR} Video},
  booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Courses},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.1145/3305366.3328028},
  url       = {https://richardt.name/Capture4VR/},
}