MELVILLE, N.Y., January 4, 2023 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a pacesetter in digital imaging options, will launch free early access1 to the Kokomo software program in February 2023, showcasing Canon’s first utility for a digital actuality (VR) platform2 that allows face-to-face communication in a digital house with live-action video utilizing easy-to-use tools. Canon first introduced the event of the Kokomo software program at CES 2022.
The Kokomo utility is a VR software program developed by Canon that embodies the three components of “REAL” “TOGETHER” “EXPERIENCE.” These three components assist to signify the overarching product mission of a brand new technique of communication to be there and share your personal picture, facial features, and even the clothes you’re sporting. The Kokomo utility makes use of a suitable shopper VR headset3 and suitable smartphone4, permitting family and friends to expertise being collectively, irrespective of the place they are5.
With out the necessity for a number of cameras or a fancy system requiring skilled settings, face-to-face communication in a digital house may be achieved with the easy configuration of a commercially accessible suitable VR headset and a suitable smartphone. Customers can simply register utilizing the smartphone utility and join with a caller, who additionally has a suitable VR headset and registers for the Kokomo utility, speaking with one another in a distant location with the identical ease of operation as acquainted current calling purposes, with the real looking sensation of being face-to-face in a life-size setting whereas viewing one another’s picture.
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The picture processing expertise developed by Canon USA reproduces the consumer’s picture in live-action in a digital house from the picture captured by the suitable smartphone, permitting the consumer to make an “ImmersiveCall” video name whereas viewing the opposite occasion and environment in 3D within the digital house utilizing the suitable VR headset. The “ImmersiveCall” with dwell illustration permits for social interplay to be accessible from one’s house, resort, dorm room, or throughout different distances if there’s a suitable headset, the software program, and an Web connection is offered. When utilizing a VR headset that covers the consumer’s visual view, a extremely immersive visible expertise unobstructed by screens or frames may be achieved, and by utilizing a suitable smartphone to seize full-body photos, customers can talk with gestures and different types of communication. As well as, the “Media Participant,” a operate for sharing pictures and movies in a digital house, permits customers to take pleasure in speaking and chatting collectively whereas concurrently viewing content material collectively on the decision.
Along with “Kokomo Studio,” the default digital house with a relaxed and chill ambiance, a number of digital areas can be found, and customers can swap between them relying on the content material of the dialog or temper. Different digital areas for an “ImmersiveCall” embrace “Malibu Trailer” in Malibu, California, “North Shore” and “Mountain Tea Home” in Oahu, Hawaii. As well as, at CES 2023, customers can expertise a particular digital house impressed by the brand new movie, Knock on the Cabin, directed by M. Night time Shyamalan, in theaters February 3.
Study extra about Kokomo by visiting Canon’s CES 2023 sales space from January Fifth-Eighth (Corridor 3, #16359) on the Las Vegas Conference Middle. Observe Canon all through the present on Instagram and Fb at @CanonUSA and LinkedIn at @CanonUSA. Use #CanonCES2023 to hitch the dialog. Go to our web site at www.usa.canon.com to view the recording of Canon’s CES 2023 Press Convention which shall be hosted on our Dwelling Web page after January 4.
For added details about Kokomo, please go to Canon.us/kokomo.
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† Primarily based on weekly patent counts issued by United States Patent and Trademark Workplace.
1 Early entry. An try to gather suggestions from customers and mirror it within the service by opening the service to a restricted variety of customers earlier than its official launch.
2 Meta’s (previously Fb’s) VR platform Distributed by means of “App Lab”; Meta’s “Meta Quest Retailer.” Could also be expanded to different platforms sooner or later.
3 Suitable with the Meta Quest 2 (previously Oculus Quest 2) VR headset bought by Meta. Supported fashions could also be expanded sooner or later.
4 Requires obtain of the Kokomo smartphone app from App Retailer for iOS and Google Play for Android; areas served as of February 2023 are the U.S. and Canada.
5 VR headset alone may also be used. Nevertheless, some features are restricted, corresponding to digital camera mode being unavailable.
