Glowbox

A technology strategy and software development studio, our work spans the full spectrum of digital experience, from interactive web to immersive VR and AR.

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Today @Microsoft launched an exhibit that digitally recreates the birthplace of the Olympic Games. We worked with our friends at Ada and Invisible Thread to bring a model of Ancient Olympia to life in mixed reality using the @HoloLens 2 headset.

https://t.co/QXYN1VvX4C

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For 'In Orbit, we created new ways of seeing the natural world with satellite data. This visualization of global #sealevels runs in a web browser thanks to #threejs and #webgl.

—a collaboration with @mapdesignlab007 @Microsoft @NASAJPL @TheHuntington and Composer Shane Myrbeck

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Take a look through the mini mockup projection scrims we used in @45thparallelpdx’s Les Boréades performance. Projected video permeated the scrim material, bringing real-time digital renderings of #pointclouds made from Brad Johnson’s #photogrammetry into physical space.

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‘Whimsic’ uses @magicleap hand tracking to allow the body to become an #AR interface. Cupping your hands or touching handprints generated within the environment invites tiny dancers into your surroundings.

—a collaboration between @mapdesignlab007 @Pilobolus and Glowbox

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We’re exploring the ocean floor in #AR by making a viewfinder with our hands! With this intuitive gesture, we’re able to dynamically focus and expand the density of a #photogrammetry #pointcloud by making the rectangle formed by our fingers bigger or smaller.

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To help video calls feel less flat and more fun, we created this 3D campfire scene and placed our live #Zoom webcam videos in virtual sleeping bags. Video participants can make shadow puppets that are cast onto the environment thanks to the fire’s real-time rendered lighting.

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Here’s a look back at some of our research for @45thParallelPDX's Les Boréades performance. We created the #pointclouds from Brad Johnson’s #photogrammetry of natural environments. This effect shows one point cloud transforming into another with the effect masked by a sphere.

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Tonight @45thParallelPDX will stream a film of Les Boréades recorded at @picapdx. The chamber orchestra was immersed in Brad Johnson's #photogrammetry, which was animated in real-time with #virtualcinematography tools that we created at Glowbox.

Info: https://t.co/TMViIXuali

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Instead of interacting through a grid of webcams, how can we make #Zoom a fun space for personal connection? Watch as Glowbox’s technical artist Holly uses a tool we created to transform one of our daily meetings into a camping road trip.

#zoomevents #virtualevents

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Light-Pixel-Point: Unpacking the #Volumetric Performance Toolbox
Glowbox’s Thomas Wester (@westert) explains how we translate a live image of a performer into #VR space with low-cost equipment and #opensource software.

https://t.co/qa2Y4LsTjn

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Produced with @valjamdance and @SorobLouie at @eyebeamnyc.

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We created a solution that lowers barriers for performers to stream #volumetric video from anywhere for less than $400. The Volumetric Performance Kit includes a #realsense camera and a #raspberry pi computer and can be ready to stream to #mozillahubs in minutes.

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We’ve been thinking about what daily life could like look when viewed through an #AR headset. How will routine actions like setting personal reminders translate into augmented space? Here are some of the ideas we came up with.

#xr #spatialcomputing #madewithunity

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Here’s Cat Ross recording movements with an #azurekinect depth camera and @brekelj’s #Brekel Body software to quickly bring animated characters to life as they #dance in an upcoming #interactive experience at @OMSI.

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“In times of pandemic, we need a space where we can still engage with #art communally.” – Valencia James (@valjamdance) on the ‘Volumetric Performance Toolbox’

Learn more: https://t.co/cuJCWsslta

Collaborators: Valencia James, @SorobLouie, and Glowbox (for @eyebeamnyc)

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Some explorations of virtual cinematography within point clouds captured by artist Brad Johnson, gorgeous visual FX by technical artist Thomas Newlands.

Spatial capture of Perga, once an ancient Greek city in Anatolia. Ruins rest on the southwestern Mediterranean coast of Turkey

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Recap from Les Boreades, a beautiful #Performance by @45thparallelpdx
just last week. Thanks to artist Brad Johnson and Thomas Newlands for stunning visuals and to PICA for the space. A truly engaging experiment.
#VR

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Some explorations of #virtualcinematography within pointclouds captured by artist Brad Johnson with visual FX by technical artist Thomas Newlands.

Spatial capture at Craters of the Moon, Idaho

#photogrammetry
#spatialcomputing
#vr