The Internet’s most famous ambassador, Google, has been hard at work pioneering pushes into new kinds of technology. Owing to the Corona Virus induced reality that humanity is still coming to terms with, communal events where we gather in our masses to generate a lot of noise while interacting, learning, and being entertained have gone digital. Google’s 3D offering seems geared to such a reality. 

The internet’s go-to video content sharing platform, YouTube, first enabled 3D video streaming back in 2015.  This time however, content creators will be able virtually put the audience in the action (imagine streaming 360 Degree views of a concert, or sporting event) complete with spatial audio, to enhance the viewing experience. 

“…We’re also launching spatial audio for on-demand YouTube videos. Just as watching a concert in 360 degrees can give you an unmatched immersive experience, spatial audio allows you to listen along as you do in real life, where depth, distance and intensity all play a role.” – YouTube statement, 2016

It wasn’t until June of this year, however, that Google announced a method to bring live 360 degree video streaming to their over – 1 billion strong – user base. The firm revealed that it’s research team had figured out a new method of capturing and compressing the 3D footage down to a lighter format, making it possible to render the video on  standalone VR/AR devices.

Volumetric video, as the technology is called, enables viewers to move their heads around naturally to get a full view of their virtual environment. This aspect surpasses current VR display tech, which allows for a limited, at times awkward, amount of head movement. 

To achieve this, Google’s Research and Development squad fitted 46 time-synced cameras to a dome, 92cm in diameter. This delivers, to the viewer, an 80cm area of natural head movement in a 220+ degree field of vision, 10 pixels per degree of angular resolution, as well as 30 frames per second video capturing capability. All the better to virtually put you right in the action with, my dear.

Researchers claim their volumetric video system can reconstruct objects that are just 20cm away from the camera. This is achieved via an interpolation algorithm planted in the firm’s deep learning software, DeepView. 

The team have switched the standard multiplane image scene representation with a set of sphere shaped shells, apparently they work better for capturing panoramic light field footage. 

“We further process this data to reduce the large number of shell layers to a small, fixed number of RGBA+depth layers without significant loss in visual quality. The resulting RGB, alpha, and depth channels in these layers are then compressed using conventional texture atlasing and video compression techniques. The final, compressed representation is lightweight and can be rendered on mobile VR/AR platforms or in a web browser,” – Google’s research people.

It’s immediately apparent that Google may have, not only, improved 360 degree video capturing capability, but made it easier and cheaper for folks to produce and consume said content. It is still unclear how Google plans to deploy this discovery, but we may soon see it become a feature on YouTube. It would really make using Google maps a blast. 

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Here is the list of top 10. highly anticipated games in 2019.

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®

Release date : 25. october 2019

Developer : Activision

Publisher : Activision

Platforms : PC , Playstation 4, Xbox Pone

A highly anticipated title of one of the most popular games ever is about to come out. It carries an old name ‘Modern Warfare’, like a prequel – but don’t let that fool you as this is absolutely new game that will only have simillar characters in it.

Halo: Infinite

Release date : TBA

Developer : 343 Industries

Publisher :  Microsoft Studios

Platforms  : PC, Xbox One

We are all pumped up to hear more about this new Halo title.  We are hungry for more information ASAP. Microsoft and 343 developers are keeping things very low key for time being and all we know that it is going to be a New Halo game. „We still have a long way to go until we ship the game, so things will certainly evolve between now and the release of Halo Infinite, though the engine demo is a clear indication of the direction we are heading with our next game and a great snapshot of where our tech is right now.“, Lee wrote.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood 

Release date : 26. July, 2019.

Developer : Machine Games, Arkane studios

Publisher :  Bethesda Softworks

Platforms  : PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a standalone sequel to Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus serving as a prelude to Wolfenstein 3. This game will be a solo or cooperative experience. Wolfenstein: Youngblood is the first modern co-op Wolfenstein adventure. Team up with a friend or play solo as one of BJ Blazkowicz’s twin daughters and wield a powerful arsenal of new weapons, gadgets, and abilities to liberate Paris from the Nazis.

Cyberpunk 2077

Release date :  End of the 2019.

Developer : Mike Pondsmith

Publisher :  CD Projekt

Platforms  :  PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One

From the creators of the Witcher 3, comes a new game – a story-driven, open world RPG of the dark future. It was announced way back in 2012., and it seems development has come to an end. It is a behemoth of a game, even bigger than the Witcher 3. With guns, a lots of guns. It’s a chaotic and fast-paced, but way less aggressive than, say, Doom – which is the next on our list.

Doom Eternal

Release date : July, 2019.

Developer : ID Software

Publisher :  Bethesda SoftWorks

Platforms  : PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Playstation 4

The release of Doom Eternal is getting closer and we will go To hell and back again. It seems that Doom Eternal will have everything we love about the series, dialled up to 11. We will be chasing demons all summer!

Dying Light 2

Release date :  End of 2019.

Developer : Techland

Publisher :  Techland

Platforms  : PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One

Dying Light 2 is an upcoming survival horror action game . Gameplay is similar to original, and that means that players will have choices to make during the story. such as  fixing the water supply for normal citizens. However, every action will have consequences. And consequences is the thing we are most excited about.

Control

Release date : End of 2019.

Developer : Remedy Entertainment

Publisher :  505 Games

Platforms  : PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One

From the developers of Max Payne comes the new game under the name Control. You will be playing as a Federal Bureau of Control, a goverment agency that is responsible for keeping interdimensional forces in-check.

Borderlands 3

Release date : 13. Semptember, 2019.

Developer : Gearbox Software

Publisher :  2K Games

Platforms  : PC, Playstation 4

Join us on a mayhem-fueled thrill ride with Borderlands. The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters. Play solo or with friends to take on insane enemies, score loads of loot and save your home from the most ruthless cult leaders in the galaxy.

Watch Dogs Legion

Release date : End of the 2019.

Developer : Ubisoft

Publisher :  Ubisoft

Platforms  : PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One

The game takes place in a near-future, dystopian version of London. It’s also rumored that the main character of Watch Dogs Legion is an NPC that you select. This means you can play as anyone, every individual you meet in the open world, has a full set of animations, voice over, character traits and visuals that are generated and guided by gameplay systems. Absolute freedom.

Ghost Of Tsushima

Release date :  End of 2019., Sometime in 2020.

Developer : Sucker Punch Productions

Publisher :  Sony Interactive Entertainment

Platforms  : PC, Playstation 4

Ghost of Tsushima will be a historical open world adventure that will take players back to Feudal Japan. Story focuses on samurai Jin Sakai, but you will also gather allies such as archer Masako.  A game will have a huge open world, specifically, the setting will be the large island of Tsushima, located off the coast of Japan. Altough this isn’t confirmed yet, it is suggested that the Ghost of Tsushima could very well go down the route of games such as Nier : Automata with dialogue entirely in Japanese alongside English subtitles.

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The list includes following titles ( in no particular order ) :

1. Half Life
2. Grand Theft Auto
3. Starcraft 2
4. Counter Strike
5. Civilization
6. Super Mario
7. Elder Scrolls
8. Pro Evolution Soccer
9. World of Warcraft

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New York – The City That Never Sleeps is a well-known nickname for New York City that was popularized by Frank Sinatra.

Enjoy!

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Still today I think that Jack Nicholson role in that movie was the best portrait of Comic Villan of all time.

Heath Ledger did a great performance in The Dark Knight movie as well, but a portrait of Joker was too dark for me.

Yesterday DC released the first trailer of the JOKER – the first real standalone villain movie.

In the trailer, we see a glimpse of how the villain got his start – or at least a glimpse of one origin story.

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arthur, a troubled man who develops into an obsessive criminal. The trailer mostly shows Arthur without makeup, and the scenes where he’s in makeup seem to take place before he’s wholly committed to the Joker shtick.

Just at the end of the trailer we can see him fully transformed to Joker as we know – the iconic clown villain.

What to Expect from Joker Movie

The Joker film has been in the works since 2017. Announced in the wake of 2016’s Suicide Squad, which saw Jared Leto playing a psychopathic gangster take on the iconic villain.

Honestly, for me, there wasn’t DC movie since The Dark Movie directed by Christopher Nolan. All lately DC movies were good, but not brilliant ones.

I think that Joaquin Phoenix is a brilliant actor and perfect for this role. Phoenix said himself that the movie does not feel like a superhero film and instead is more of a character study.

They announced that Joker is supposed to feel like a Martin Scorsese film, it makes sense that Robert De Niro has been cast in one of the lead roles.

Joker will hit theatres on October 4th, 2019.

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