Advanced Innovation Centre for Future Visual Entertainment

"I’m in Beijing this week for ICEVE 2017, two-days (Nov 16 & 17) of talks and demos which promise to provide a rare look under the hood of China’s emerging technologies, research and image production for film, animation and immersive media."

How Advanced is Chinese Visual Entertainment? – ChristopherColman Animation, China, Conferences & Festivals, Events, Film, Postproduction, VFX, Virtual Reality How Advanced is Chinese Visual Entertainment? November 13, 2017 Christopher Colman I’m in Beijing this week for ICEVE 2017, two-days (Nov 16 & 17) of talks and demos which promise to provide a rare look u...

A new study released by The Advanced Innovation Center for Future Visual Entertainment suggests that extended use of high-end VR headsets like HTC’s Vive (or, presumably, the Oculus Rift) can have beneficial effects on preteens’ vision, in some cases actually improving kids’ myopia or hyperopia.

VR can improve your kid’s eyesight: study If you’ve ever worn a virtual reality headset for an extended period, you’ve no doubt seen the world a little differently once you’ve taken it off. Maybe things seem a little more three-dimensional. Or less. But something’s different. You probably didn’t think, though, about how using that...

A group of researchers from AICFVE Beijing Film Academy, Tel Aviv University, Shandong University, the University of British Columbia, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a new method of 3D scanning that captures the full shape of an object, using water.

3D Scanning with Water: Researchers Introduce New "Dip Transform" Method There are multiple types of 3D scanners, employing a number of different scanning technologies, but each of those technologies has limitations. Shiny surfac