Year: 2023

Zibra VDB Compression is the newest ZibraAI solution, being developed to bring film-quality VFX into games with GPU-powered compressed VDB effects.

Born from a custom AI-based technology, it makes it possible to:

• Compress huge VFXs, created in different tools and stored in OpenVDB format, up to 20 times, and add more high-quality volumetric VFX to the game, filling it with lifelike visuals, all without increasing the build size;
• Render volumetric effects in game engines in real-time;
• Reuse a volumetric effect in multiple use cases, optimizing memory consumption;
• Change the way the effect looks in different parts of the project with shaders, regulating color, density, and playback speed, all according to your needs.

Our VDB compression solution also opens new possibilities for realistic scene lighting. With our tech, you can use light data from VFX to light up a scene, add reflections, etc, making your game much more immersive and true to life.

https://www.summet.com/blog/2022/08/16/lightfield-capture-to-looking-glass-quilt-image-scripted-on-the-command-line/

Quilts are an image standard that Looking Glass uses to produce 3D experiences. This standard is used to describe both still and moving images (pictures and videos).

The main benefit of the quilt format is that it can work for both images and videos! Quilts allow for an efficient way to store frame by frame data as .mp4, .webm or other common media formats. They’re also compact. for example, the above quilt was compressed to be under 1MB of data!

Each tile in the quilt is a conventional 2D image of a scene. The bottom-left tile of the quilt (view 0) is the leftmost view of the scene, and the top-right tile is the rightmost, like so: