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Archive for November 2019
Half-Life: Alyx
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Thursday November 21 2019
Sorry for being a bit quiet lately. I've been busy. Half-Life: Alyx
Archive for December 2018
Photogrammetric Catch-up, part 1 of WHO KNOWS
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Tuesday December 25 2018
I really ought to post more to this blog-beast. So, in a brief moment of calm and as a Christmas / Saturnalia / Newtonmas / Whatever gift, have some recently posted photogrammetric captures for VR! ...
Archive for July 2017
Still more Hawaii in VR
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Thursday July 6 2017
Capturing all those beautiful tropical beaches again - actually, a nicely hideous desolate volcanic hellscape slowly being reclaimed by plant life. Shot in a bit of a hurry (less than fifteen minutes ...
Archive for June 2017
Yet more Hawaii in VR
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Tuesday June 27 2017
Please excuse the recent lack of Sunday Things. I've been busy. Also, forgetful. I've been building up a nice stockpile of links, though... Meanwhile, have some more virtual Hawaii. If anyone was c ...
Now visit Hawaii in VR
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Thursday June 1 2017
When it's not been too warm, the weather's been decent enough in Seattle - but if it does start raining again, I can always retreat to the simulated baleful glare of the vicious day-star courtesy of a ...
Archive for May 2017
SteamVR Home
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Sunday May 21 2017
That oft-mentioned Destinations is going away - and is being replaced by SteamVR itself. Concrete on the right is 'borrowed' from a bus station in Seattle. The previously unannounced SteamVR Hom ...
Archive for March 2017
Still another non-photo
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Wednesday March 22 2017
Yet another digitised segment of Derbyshire to explore in room-scale VR, this time some wintry Beech Woodlands on the Destinations Workshop. I really do need to digitise more of Seattle some time. ...
Archive for January 2017
Yet more non-photos
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Sunday January 8 2017
It's 2017? Crikey. Have some more non-photos on Destinations: Raufarholshellir Lava Tube, Iceland - or a close simulation thereof Raufarholshellir Lava Tube, Iceland - as seen in The Lab, only rep ...
Archive for October 2016
Also not photos
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Saturday October 29 2016
More work on that increasingly world-spanning Destinations - a couple more non-photos for you to explore. The full-3D versions are included with recent Destinations updates, while those of you lacking ...
Archive for June 2016
This is not a photo
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Friday June 17 2016
I think you're all witnessing the future of my holiday photography - here's a VR-enabled, photogrammetric scan of Thingvellir National Park, Iceland as photographed in August 2015 and processed just r ...
Get your arse to Mars - and now everywhere else too
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Friday June 10 2016
Anyone for a Workshop-enabled, virtual reality scene-sharing system? In an initial step towards some sort of dystopian metaverse (that, or glorious virtual tourism across our planet and beyond), pleas ...
Archive for April 2016
That 'reality' thing was overrated anyway
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Tuesday April 5 2016
Something I've been busy with for a while is finally released: A glimpse of the future. I've been using the HTC Vive (from dodgy 3D-printed prototypes onwards) for over a year now, and it still ...
Archive for September 2015
Teleportation, today
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Friday September 25 2015
Who needs a holodeck? Fellow adventurer in photogrammetry David Finsterwalder has recorded a video of my scanned scenes as uploaded to Steam. The first two are office scans (while he merely gets th ...
An elaborate ruse to get people to look at my holiday photos
posted in Virtual Reality by Cargo Cult on Monday September 21 2015
Oh, hello again. I've been busy. Viewing this at home melted my brain. That brief mention of photogrammetry in an earlier article turned into a fully-fledged obsession. Viewing things on a fl ...
