A boutique XR content studio and makers of the ShowroomXR platform.
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Brisbane, Queensland 4005, AU
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“We want the user to experience what it’s like to head out to remote locations… but we don’t expect you to build a whole airport!” Challenge accepted. It’s a well-worn adage within the film-making community but is even more true for interactive experiences: if you want to create a compelling narrative, show, don’t tell. follow us: Composit #vr #virtualreality #gamedesign #quest3
Project update! We're extremely proud of what the team has pulled together in such a short time for Stanwell Corporation Limited. This VR-based Hazard ID pilot program is set to take their hands-on Health and Safety training to a whole new level within the organisation. #VR #virtualreality #quest3 #meta #unity3d
This is how we get ahead.
Last year, the tech media had a field day reporting on how much money Meta was losing on its investment in XR and the metaverse. But from where I’m sitting, I’ve never seen a company invest so much in fostering a satisfied developer community as well as educating those new to the space. I feel quite lucky that we have folks like Rehan Wickremeratne and the crew at Meta that we can reach out to. In Queensland we’re also lucky to have folks like the Queensland XR Hub making events like this happen. This snap is from the Immersive Experiences in Education event sponsored by Meta, from last week held at UQ. I always come away from these events feeling super excited because of the folks I meet who doing fascinating things in XR.
VR at its best feels like a widly vivid, lucid dream and we get great joy bringing this feeling to new audiences every chance we can.
I'm super excited to announce that I'll be speaking at the next IABC Queensland's Brisbane event talking all things VR. Join me as we pop on a headset and literally see the world of communications through a new lens. We'll explore how virtual reality can become a part of your communications strategies. Get your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/gc9Wvk-i We're in the age of fast, constant technology and digital change, and for the communications professional, that means keeping up with and embracing new tools to help us reach people in new, impactful ways. Enter virtual reality: an opportunity to immerse your audiences in a computer-generated environment that not only informs, but excites. It's an opportunity to really help your audiences 'feel' the essence of your message. And it's not futuristic - it's here, right now, and available to everyone as a comms tool. So let's get amongst it! You'll learn: - The parallels between VR now and the explosion of the internet in 1993. - How VR closes the gap between ideas, learning, muscle memory and reality. - What the 'VR giggles' are. - The basics of why VR and AR makes sense for most learning applications (even the boring ones). - The specific benefits for comms that only VR can offer I love coming to the IABC events! They're the perfect mix of fun and informative, and the people I've met have become great friends that I've learned a lot from so I hope to see you there. Thanks again to Mel Loy and IABC Queensland for this amazing opportunity. https://lnkd.in/gc9Wvk-i #communications #VR
Are you ready for the internet in 3D? It's coming, and it will be here sooner than you think. Some companies are already working out their strategy. When will you figure out yours? If you want to learn more about how we can bring your company into the third dimension, get in touch. https://lnkd.in/gHDCyWVv #xr #vr #ar
My skin has never looked so smooth.
I’m a bit late to the party, but big thanks to Patrick Shirley for skinning my metahuman avatar. Pretty sure he’s just copying my likeness so he can unlock my phone and find all the sick memes I’ve saved. All jokes aside, the likeness is pretty nuts, and I don’t mind a UV map as a hot new look. #unrealengine5 #metahuman #photogrammetry
NPC's for all!! Thanks Move AI
My wife and I have been been working at home together long enough that she no longer asks what sort of fruity nonsense I'm up to when recording Mocap in the living room... Thanks to Move AI and their mobile app - Move One - which uses a single smart phone camera + AI powered movement interpolation, yet another massive chunk of the virtual production pipeline has been democratised. This is great for us folks who have a bunch of ideas and are keen to simply get on with it. So what does that mean for us at Composit? Well, it's easier than ever to bring characters into your virtual content. Whether that's a tutor, a teacher, a salesperson or storyteller, now you'll never be alone! #moveone #moveai #vr #animation #mocap
In the words of Rory Sutherland (my long-time podcast and YouTube content crush), "perspective is everything". Here are a couple of interesting perspectives which have unravelled since the launch of the Quest 3. You may have seen that Meta 'Glassholes' (or Quest-holes) are a thing now, much like Glassholes were a thing when a small amount of Google Glass users were mocked for making people uncomfortable in public situations a decade ago. To catch you up, read this piece from 2013, https://lnkd.in/gk6xuRAz and then this piece from October 17, 2023, https://lnkd.in/gsX9T4h9 I think there are two, super interesting perspectives here that are worth investigating: 1. In a recent conversation with my pal and collaborator Patrick Shirley, he mentioned that one of the reasons that the tide will turn with the Quest 3 is that the person wearing the headset is no longer the most self-conscious person in the room. The low-latency, full colour 4K passthrough vision means you still get to see and keep up with whatever is going on around you, if you want to. And you are (mostly) no longer subject to the spook pranks that one of your mates with zero VR etiquette is sure to play on you. Now the joke is on them. 2. As Mat Honan points out in the article above, we already know that almost no one has a problem with watching streaming services, listening to music or taking photos and videos in public places with their phones. So what is it about the form factor of a headset that makes it so hard for people to swallow? I'd particularly like to hear peoples' perspectives on this. Stuart Butterfield famously said, "The only true measure of human innovation is change in behaviour." People are inevitably going to get more comfortable with headsets as a platform, 10 years post-google glass and driven by the charged anticipation of the the Vision Pro - arguably a more refined cousin to the Quest 3. As a result, I think we're on the cusp of one of the most exciting and yet strange shifts in how we work, since the invention of the smartphone. #augmentedreality #glasshole #questhole #metaquest3 #passthrough #quest3 #vr #ar #xr
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How long will it be before every design office has a VR headset in rotation? My bet is, not long. That's why I'm super excited to talk about the launch of Showroom - a VR native platform for the furniture, fittings, design and construction industries. At the beginning of November we ran the first public demo of Showroom at the Brisbane Designscape event, hosted by the wonderful folks at Offiscape, with thanks for the hookup by Paul Fairweather. With the gracious help and collaboration of our fine friends at Luxxbox working with Composit, we built a fully interactive, virtual showroom - possibly the first of it's kind in the world - showcasing a selection of their newest offerings, showing off just how far the tech has come, and how compelling VR can be as a sales and communication tool. It was great to see the looks of delight on users' faces which was also very validating for the concept. VR bridges the gap between 2D media in brochures and websites that specifiers are used to seeing - that still leave a lot of blindspots in terms of conveying the truth of a product, its scale and volume - and the need for shipping physical product samples which can be an expensive, wasteful exercise. Not to mention that virtual showrooms overcome the logistical constraints of size, distance, time and gravity. It's super early days, but for more info about the platform we're building head to https://lnkd.in/g6dMan2e Know someone who needs to see this? Please share it around 😀 #quest3 #vr #virtualreality #showroomxr #showroomvr #xr
Recent work! 4 cameras × 6 hours of event footage + 15 inspiring talks = one hell of a content package for our event partners Offiscape, Paul Fairweather, & Luxxbox for Brisbane Designscape 2023! #bds #brisbane #design #videographer