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Eric Cheng

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Playing local and cloud-stored 360 and 180 videos in Oculus Go (VR headset)

I’ve been getting this question from a bunch of people, so I wanted to write it up for sharing. Oculus Gallery for Oculus Go is a wonderful player for playing back local and cloud-stored personal video. It supports 360 and 180 (mono and stereoscopic) and flat video, and also supports spatial audio. If a user’s goal is ...

Switch out your small halogen bulbs for LEDs

Replacing 20W G8 bulbs with 2.5W LED bulbs.

Peak quality 3D 180 immersive video in Oculus Go and Gear VR

In March 2018, I shot and edited a stereoscopic 3D-180 mini-documentary about Bob Kramer, one of the most well-known kitchen knife makers in the world. This is a case study about the project, which was conceived to develop a workflow to enable a single person to generate high-quality stereoscopic video content for VR headsets.

Sloths in Panama, presented immersive VR / 3D-180

In February, I accompanied sloth scientist Bryson Voirin to Panama in search of sloths. Armed with a stereoscopic 180 camera and an ambisonic audio recorder, my goal was to capture footage of sloths in the most immersive way possible.

Enabling NVIDIA GPU for Adobe Premiere Pro in Surface Book 2

Enabling the Microsoft Surface book 2's discrete GPU for use in Adobe Creative Cloud.

Scrolling from the virtual keyboard in iOS and Android

Scrolling from the mobile keyboard in iOS and Android makes it easy to precisely position the cursor.

Microsoft Surface Book 2: Surface Dock, 2 x LG 34″ displays

I recently switched to the Microsoft Surface Book 2, and I really like it. I got the Surface Dock and have it working with 2 large external displays, wired Ethernet, and a keyboard and mouse. Is this too good to be true??

The Full 360: Creating High-Quality Immersive Videos (OC4 Talk)

My talk about 360 video at Oculus Connect 4 is now online! It’s a high-level summary about the current state of 360 video including equipment and workflow, followed by a chat with Paul Raphaël and Ryan Horrigan of Félix & Paul Studios about the making of MIYUBI.

VR180 picture in picture experiments

I did some experiments yesterday about how one might do picture-in-picture in VR180 (stereoscopic 180).