The story of my Carl Zeiss “Olympia” f2,8/180mm Sonnar
HISTORY Years ago I bought this beast of a lens on Ebay (225€) because I wanted to have an old fast tele lens on a budget. I had tried several old glasses before, and some where fine but others not. My all time favorite lens is the Nikon NIKKOR-S.C Auto 1:1.4 f=50mm....
Kiosk Mode in VR
...or how we replaced "Oculus Go" with "PicoVR G2 4K" 2016 we developed RochlitzVR: a Installation at Schloss Rochlitz. More information about this project here: https://blendfx.com/project/rochlitz-vr/ Back then we used Samsung GearVR: a Samsung S6 in a plastic...
9. Konsum Leipzig Tischtennis Firmen-Cup
TABLE TENNIS COMPANYS-CUP On May 26th 2019 the "Konsum Leipzig" Tabletennis Companies-Cup took place for the ninth time. 218 hobbyists from 43 different companies from Leipzig were part of the tournament, and this year we participated as well for the first time.THE...
Astoria VR on Kurzsuechtig 2019
KURZSUECHTIG Last Saturday we were invited to pitch our current project Astoria VR, which we are working on together with hug films, at the VR event of a local film festival, "Kurzsüchtig". We were awarded with an honorable mention. KUNSTKRAFTWERK The best thing...
Astoria VR on EastDoc 2019
East Doc On March 14th 2019 filmmaker and producer Alina Cyranek is pitching our current VR project at the East-Doc festival in Prague! AstoriaVR, produced by hug films and still work in progress, is a VR experience that takes you back to 1986, where you visit the...
Working with Blender and the ARRI Alexa
The Jackpot Recently we have been working on a shortmovie called "Der Hauptgewinn" ('The Jackpot'), by German director Alice von Gwinner. It was a very interesting technical challenge and we learned a lot from it, so we wanted to share some of that with you. The movie...
OpenMovieVR: “Sintel”
We just released another update for OpenMovieVR! It not only brings you new features like improved playback controls, including forward/rewind, but also a new open movie with 3 new environments. It's an old classic by the Blender Institute: "Sintel". In this short...
OpenMovieVR: First ambiVR movie!
More goodies are coming to OpenMovieVR! ambiVR “Caminandes LLamigos” will be the first open movie ever with a movie event based environment change. This will switch your VR environment based on certain key scenes in the movie, a technology we like to call ambiVR (a...
VRAIS Tools
Even though we didn't find the time recently to put as much love into our free VR viewer VRAIS as we would like to, we still use it in our daily VR workflow. It's one of our main tools to quickly view and test our VR renderings internally. Once we need to collaborate...
OpenMovieVR 2.0
We just published Open Movie VR 2.0 for Google Cardboard: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blendfx.omvr! What started as an experiment, as a virtual reality app playground, quickly became much bigger than we ever thought. We expected to get maybe a...