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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).

Insta360 ONE bullet time in 3D (stereoscopic)

The monoscopic bullet time video created by the Insta360 ONE camera can easily be converted to a 3D video by showing it separately to each eye with a time offset (1 frame).

Bullet time photogrammetry, with Insta360 ONE and Pix4D

I twirled an Insta360 ONE camera above my head using its “Bullet Time” feature, and shoved the resulting images into Pix4D to create a 3D model.  Wanna play with it? The model wasn’t fantastic to begin with, and it looks even worse in Sketchfab:

360 camera comparison, September 2017

360 video comparison from 11 360 cameras in September, 2017

Mac-like screen captures in Windows: Snagit

To emulate Mac-like screen captures, you can use the $49.95 Windows utility called Snagit, by TechSmith. You can configure presets to be triggered by Alt+Shift+3 and Alt-Shift+4 to do the same things they do in OS X.