Photographic Live Action Capture for Immersive Media In the realm of immersive content authoring, computer-generated imaging has benefited from decades of development, and significant advancements in both software algorithms and the hardware needed to support them. But the use photographic live-action capture techniques for entertainment and informative programming continues to be a high priority for[...]
An Overview of Scene Description Formats The remarkable progress in computer graphics, xR content and volumetric image capture has led to a range of file formats for the interchange of 3D scene descriptions and image assets. Some examples include Filmbox (FBX), Alembic (ABC), Universal Scene Description (USD), GL Transmission Format (glTF), and the Immersive Technology[...]
The Immersive Technologies Media Format (ITMF) is a suite of royalty-free specifications that establishes a baseline for an interchange of immersive media. The format is initially intended to be used for interchange amongst industry-standard digital content creation (DCC) tools, i.e. for the packaging and creation of 3D synthetic, computer generated, and natural media, including audio and visual media.