November saw the third instalment of the Montreal Virtual Reality Market – an industry gathering held in Montreal. With over 50 virtual- and augmented reality companies located in the city, Montreal is well positioned to burst in the VR industry: four engineering schools, massive video gaming industry (Ubisoft, EA, A2M, Gameloft to name a few), world-renowned filmmaking and developed IT market surely makes for a lot of qualified skills floating around here. We visited the event nestled at Societe Des Arts Technologique (Technological Arts Society) to check up with the AR/VR startups coming out of this French-speaking city and converse with some of them.
Drone Volt’s Canadian branch filled their exhibitor booth and air space above it with all kinds of custom-made drones, one of which steals the show – it is the first drone dedicated to virtual reality. Janus VR 360, which retails for over $15,000, is equipped with with 2 gyro stabilized OMNI rigs on which 12 4K cameras are attached. This allows to record 80 frames per second videos from which quality virtual reality content can be created.
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Source: VR World