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Memory company Crucial makes products for photographers and gamers alike. The company has blended these two audiences with a new article, "The most beautiful video games."

Sony has showcased a type of collaborative virtual effects system that uses Unreal Engine 5 and a motion capture "camera" rig that instead of using a real camera, it controls a virtual camera that exists in a 3D space.

Twinmotion, a real-time visualization tool that is powered by Epic's Unreal Engine, is capable of not only generating 3D product photos of everything from shoes to cars, but it can even create entire photorealistic worlds.

Vu Technologies has completed the design, build, and installation of a state-of-the-art virtual production studio for the University of Florida athletic department, highlighting how it is able to democratize a technology that has thus far been mainly only seen in Hollywood productions.

Walmart has announced a "leveled up" virtual fitting room that lets customers use their own photos to virtually try on clothing, effectively letting users be their own models.

Drop Shots is a remote workplace solution that allows clients to take part in and collaborate on photo shoots virtually and in real-time via a low-latency view through the lens of the photographer's camera.

Adobe has announced that its annual creativity conference, MAX, is returning to in-person this year after two years of virtual-only shows that came about due to the coronavirus pandemic.

With the 18th iteration of the Call of Duty franchise headed back to the World War roots, Activision invited actual war photojournalists to step inside the game to photograph World War II "like we've never seen before."

Coeur d'Alene entrepreneur Chris Whalen has announced a new app called Histork which leverages Augmented Reality (AR) to "bring history to life through the screen of a cell phone."

Google is workong on elevating the virtual meeting experience with its ongoing Project Starline, which brings a three-dimensional aspect to online video communication.

The latest Tamagotchi model, Tamagotchi Pix, adds a touch of augmented reality with a built-in camera that allows players to take photos with their digital pet along with a few other additional gameplay features.

Adobe has announced that its creativity conference Adobe MAX will be held from October 26-28, 2021, and will once again -- as was the case in 2020 -- be virtual and free for all attendees.

Last month my fiancé (Corina) and I (Matt) did something we’d never done before. We ran a virtual photography exhibition.

I recently set out to see what collaborating on an automotive campaign would look like when done virtually. In the words of the always colorful Jeremy Clarkson, “How hard could it be?” TL;DR: Not that hard!

Billie Weiss is the Senior Manager of Photography for the Boston Red Sox, and this is the time of year when he'd usually be shooting some creative portraits of the players for the marketing department. Can you really shoot creative team portraits from home... over FaceTime? Weiss decided to give it a shot.

A couple of weeks into the coronavirus lockdown of 2020 and I’d noticed, among the many mentions on social media timelines of toilet paper shortages, sourdough fanaticism, and the essential viewing experience that is Tiger King, was a computer game called Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been asked to stay home and shelter in place. This restriction has only increased my desire to explore and road trip. I still need to create and think critically throughout this time, but if I can’t go to new places, how can I make new work?

How do you photographically represent a war that takes place entirely in software? Is it even possible? Taking place across the world at this very moment is a non-stop, low-intensity cyber war complete with reconnaissance, probing attacks, feints and defensive operations the details and extent of which can only be guessed at.

Virtual reality cameras just got real. Literally. The D3-U is the world's first physical "camera" device that's designed to take photos in virtual worlds.

Have a virtual reality headset and enjoy browsing Instagram photos? Instamuseum is a new app that lets you combine those two things: it turns Instagram accounts into a virtual reality museum that you can "walk around" in.

Ray Soemarsono of Apertura is a wedding photographer from Southern California who has received major accolades and awards for his work. More recently, Soemarsono has been receiving attention for a different kind of photography: photos shot inside the virtual world of a video game.

Here's an interesting idea: the Japanese company Cosina has released a new augmented reality app that shows you what various lenses look like on your camera.

Don't have the time or money to visit a photo exhibition you're interested in? In the future, paying a visit will be as simple as strapping a virtual reality headset to your head.

At EyeEm's Photo Hack Day 4 in Berlin recently, one of the apps developed was called Rooms. It's a virtual reality Android app that lets you enjoy photos in a virtual photo exhibition, and the app gives us a taste of what may soon be commonplace in the world of art.

As camera drones become increasingly popular as a relatively cheap and easy way to capture aerial photos and videos, there are more and more stories in the news of drone accidents being caused by poor piloting. For those who wish to capture pro-quality shots without having to worry about piloting drones themselves, a group of researchers at Stanford want to help: they've create a computer tool that lets you create a shot virtually and then have a camera drone automatically turn it into real footage.

Sometimes I make brief escapes from the humdrum of city life and venture into the woods to capture the majesty of nature. I ride around on my bicycle like a madman looking for interesting subjects to capture. The last time I did this, my beloved camera bounced out of my pocket somewhere along the bumpy road; I’d gotten some good shots that day, quite a few actually, and keeping a stoic attitude while backtracking in search of my lost camera became increasingly difficult. Not only was the camera lost, I was lost.

Here's a new idea that's quite a bit off the beaten path: RoboStage is a new online studio that lets photographers conduct a photo shoot through their browser. We're not talking about some kind of faked virtual environment, but an actual photo shoot done in an actual location, controlled through your browser.

In every facet of our lives, we’re bombarded by advertisements: online, while driving, on the radio, everywhere. So much so that they become more noise than anything else. So wouldn't you like to erase some of that noise and replace it with iconic photography? Well, soon you can.

For one month, starting in mid-October, No Ad, an augmented reality application will be overlaying pieces of art from the International Center of Photography over the commercial advertisements seen throughout the New York City subway system.

Conflict photographer Ashley Gilbertson was recently sent into a very different war zone by TIME. Instead of capturing images of human versus human conflict in real life, Gilbertson was told to document the main characters in the video game The Last of Us Remastered.

Back in October 2013, we featured the work of Fernando Pereira Gomes, an artist who creates street photographs in the virtual video game world of GTA V. Montreal-based photographer Benoit Paillé also works in the same virtual world, except he takes his work one step further: he uses a real world camera.

As graphics continue to improve and virtual worlds become more detailed, it makes sense that some people are branching out to photograph (or at least capture via screenshot) these video game worlds. Case in point: the above time-lapse was created from photos, not of any state you'll ever step a physical foot in, but of the fictional Grand Theft Auto V state of San Andreas.

Want to plan out and test your studio lighting setups before setting up equipment and bringing subjects into the picture? German software development company Elixxier has been developing a software program designed to help you do just that. It's called set.a.light 3D STUDIO, and is, according to Elixxier, the world's first software dedicated to photo studio simulation.

Back in May, we wrote about a photographer named John Butterill and his brilliant idea of using a Internet-connected phone to share his photo adventures with people whose mobility was limited. Google liked Butterill's story so much that they're sharing it as an example of the different things you can do through Google+ Hangouts. The video above is a neat look at how Butterill came up with his idea, and how the concept quickly spread around the world.

Video Game Tourism has an interesting article about the growing art of video …

The last time C. Corey Fisk walked was in 1992. She has multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease that affects the central nervous system and gradually took her ability to walk and leave her bed.

But early February, she went on a photo walk with photographer John Butterill in the woods behind his house in Ontario, Canada -- all from her own home in northern California.

Robert Overweg is a photographer who works in the virtual world. His series, "the end of the virtual world", contains images captured in popular computer games at the edges of the "world". Based in the Netherlands, Overweg has been working exclusively in the virtual world since 2007.

Google recently added high-quality street level photographs to …