VR Portrait and Virtual Production
The VR Portrait and VR Window, and that obvious use we completely missed. Way back in 2000, Darrel Grien came to me with an idea. He wanted a virtual 'window' into places he'd been before. The idea was he'd set up a camera when he went on a trip, capture about an hour of video, and then play this video back on a screen on his wall. Pretty straightforward, and I started putting that together for him. We even got a patent on it. It was Glorious https://patents.justia.com/patent/20010033344 But before we were at the patent stage, we'd gone off on a few tangents. What if it was portable? What if it was wireless? What if it could mirror your computer screen? What if you could take it with you to the bathroom so you could watch an important game play even if you had to tinkle? How could we make it feel more realistic, like a real window? What if you had these in a cubicle all around you? Well, we needed to build a prototype first. Parts for it were crazy expensive. Even...