DeoVR Blog

Canon has a new affordable VR 180/360 hybrid camera coming out soon, and it could transform the world of VR film-making, bringing VR content creation to a much wider market. Here’s everything you need to know about this new piece of VR equipment. 

Learn how to export a video thumbnail or 2D video from your VR video, using the free open-source VR video editing software, Shotcut. 

Many VR creators want to know how different bitrates affect the quality when encoding their VR videos. To help explain, we’ve conducted a simple test using three different bitrate settings for the same short piece of VR video. 

This is the first entry in DeoVR's VR101 tutorial series, in which Diego Vega from VR180Films shares useful and straightforward information about virtual reality while encouraging 2D filmmakers to transition to VR. Watch the full video on the DeoVR Facebook page. 

The CalfVR camera is a new VR camera, capable of 6K 50FPS video (and 8K photos), available at an accessible price point. At DeoVR, we’ve been using a generic model for the past few weeks - you can see a short video made with this camera at DeoVR (6K 50FPS, h265 100Mbps), which shows how it works in daylight on a static tripod. But let’s look at this impressive item in more detail. 

The DeoVR team has been creating custom CGI backgrounds to use with AR passthrough scenes, as a way of providing great-looking fixed backdrops that don't require the use of live AR passthrough. Discover more about how this is done and see some of the incredible images to come.