OTOY: OTOY is a holographic content platform bringing the power of light field rendering and streaming to virtual reality and augmented reality experiences.
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Stewart, in turn, would be working with the graphics firm Otoy.
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Founded in 2009, OTOY is only now stepping into the spotlight.
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Otoy is the exception, with 90 percent of its produce grown in-house.
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At Otoy Restaurant, all the juices and coffee come from the farm, too.
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My lunch is beef with vegetables and mashed otoy—steak and potatoes, essentially.
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In November, Stewart and HBO had signed a four-year production deal with OTOY.
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Otoy could eventually become a platform, like an Amazon Web Services for graphics, he said.
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"We have the otoy already for them," Nico says, referring to the tortoises, not the tourists.
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On Tuesday, HBO and Discovery Communications announced that they have taken an equity stake in OTOY.
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Los Angeles-based OTOY develops immersive entertainment experiences, whether that's through holograms, virtual reality or other technologies.
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Though consumer interest in VR is relatively new, OTOY has been working in this space for years.
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Or, as OTOY claims, the investment will help it to produce "original holographic content" for its new stakeholders.
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Otoy, the company that makes Octane, reached out to Dämmrich about exporting the images for a VR scene.
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HBO and Discovery Communications announced today that they are partnering with 3D-graphics startup OTOY — both companies taking equity stakes.
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Virtual reality, augmented reality, and even holograms were all highlighted as areas OTOY would help its traditional media partners explore.
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In fact, OTOY previously said that its tech can speed up rendering time by anywhere from 10 to 40 times faster.
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Jon Stewart is already working with OTOY on new content for HBO, thanks to a previously announced four-year production deal.
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The investment in Otoy is just one of several financing deals that media companies have participated in with virtual reality companies.
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The deal sees Stewart working with OTOY to produce short-form digital content refreshed on HBO NOW several times throughout the day.
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Otoy, founded in 2009 as a company whose software is used to make 3-D graphics, declined to comment on financial details.
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HBO was recently the lead investor in an addition to a funding round for Otoy, a Los Angeles-based special effects start-up.
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Otoy also makes a virtual reality player that is free to download; the company wants to become the open standard for virtual reality distribution.
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Otoy is a must-visit for those looking for a great meal on the Galapagos because, generally speaking, food on the islands isn't particularly inspiring.
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"We are now entering an era where it's not just cord-cutting and it's not just video on demand," OTOY CEO Jules Urbach told CNBC.
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Before it was converted into the organic farm and restaurant it is today, the land used to exclusively grow otoy (also known as xanthosoma or malanga).
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Layered in with the crops of otoy were intense growths of blackberry—a wildly invasive plant considered by many conservationists as the worst weed affecting the islands.
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To this avail, Facebook is partnering with post-production companies and VFX houses, including Adobe, Otoy, Foundry, Mettle, DXO, Here Be Dragons, Framestore, Magnopus and The Mill.
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OTOY to date has been working to create technology that speeds up the rendering process when it comes to creating VR and AR video, making this possible.
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In addition, OTOY will also develop new AR and VR experiences for DiscoveryVR, the network's VR platform available today on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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This past April, HBO announced that it had acquired 3D graphics startup OTOY, and that Stewart was already working with the company to create online-only videos.
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Otoy, whose LightStage facial rendering technology, used in films like "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," has won an Academy Award, has also gotten into virtual reality.
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Suzanne Kolb, executive vice president of Discovery Digital Networks, said the deal with Otoy should give Discovery a front-row seat to new technological developments and ways to tell stories.
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At the time, OTOY said Stewart was to co-develop new technology that would help him rapidly produce short-form content multiple times a day, with additional projects in the work.
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And while otoy is still a mainstay on the property, there's now a diverse fruit and vegetable farm that includes chili, tomatoes, bananas, carrots, onions, corn, coffee, plantains, oranges, papaya, and passion fruit, among others.
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According to The New York Times, neither Stewart nor the network anticipated how challenging the cable-news parody — being created with the help of 3D graphics company, OTOY — would be to carry out, and it's been shelved.
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Located 20 minutes by car from the main port and accessible via taxi (or, if you're feeling ambitious, by bike) the open-air Otoy Restaurant is equipped with a full bar and can accommodate up to 100 people.
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Get ready to hang with holographic Jon Stewart Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who signed a 4-year deal with HBO last year, is already working with OTOY to produce "timely" short-form videos for HBO Now.
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Michael Lombardo, HBO's president for programming, said most video created for virtual reality currently "leans toward marketing stunts or promotional opportunities," but that could change when companies like Otoy become more integrated into the process of creating programming.
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"Not a single media company isn't thinking about what happens when the rectangle goes away," said Jules Urbach, 41, the founder of Otoy, referring to a future when videos are experienced in virtual reality rather than watched on screens.
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Amid the ongoing craze for VR videos, which has seen streaming rivals like Netflix and Hulu rolling out their own VR content, HBO and Discovery announced this morning they've taken an equity stake in a company called OTOY, which specializes in rendering complex 3D environments using cloud-based servers.
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ORBX.js is a JavaScript library codec able to stream video in any HTML5-compliant browser. The project is a partnership between Mozilla and OTOY.
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Ma Fuxiang defeated Kao in Ningxia in 1916, and the Mongol princes of Otoy, Üüsin and Qanggin pledged their allegiance to the fake emperor, presenting him with rifles. On 19 June 1916, Kao arrived with his Emperor, badly defeated by Ma Fushou, the brother of Ma Fuxiang, and withdrew through Otoy to Sandaohe. In 1917 Kao was defeated at Shizzuizi, the Emperor and Kao's underlings were executed and Kao fled. Ma Fuxiang's book, "Shuofang Daozhi", portrays these events.
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Unable to continue traversing the world, he has in recent years sought new methods of sharing his experiences. The Last Goodbye, co-created by Gabo Arora and Ari Palitz, is a co-production by the Shoah Foundation, Here Be Dragons, MPC VR and OTOY.
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The film used the Los Angeles-based company OTOY for its visual effects. Moving Picture Company, Pixomondo, Rodeo FX and Weta Digital also created visual effects for the film. Moving Pictures Company took on the visual effects for The Thing, rendering a fully digital character based on Jamie Bell's on-set performance and the Human Torch's fiery visual effects. Weta Digital handled Reed Richards' stretch effects.
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Janji Hati was released in June 2013. Strong sales in the first three months after its released caught the attention of Rudi Soedjarwo, a prominent director and film producer in Indonesia. He then decided to produce the novel into a movie, with him as producer and Otoy Wiyoto as director. Recognizing Natali's acting talent, Soedjarwo cast her to play Amanda, the female main role, alongside Aliando Syarief who play the male main role, Dava.
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On March 24, 1906, During the Pulahan Campaign as Governor of Samar, Curry negotiated with Cipriano "Teducduc" Amango and Isidro "Otoy" Pompac the Pulahan leaders of South-Eastern Samar. Assured that the Pulahan forces were falling from attrition, Curry negotiated to meet at a neutral small barrio not shown on most maps, Magtaon in Mapanas, Northern Samar. For the negotiations the army garrison was replaced by a constabulary unit. Present for the negotiations were Curry, a constabulary honour guard and visitors.
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In November 2015, it was announced that Stewart signed a four-year deal with HBO that would include exclusive digital content for HBO NOW, HBO Go, and other platforms. HBO programming president Casey Bloys has said that "the idea is it will be an animated parody of a cable news network with an Onion-like portal." The team began working with the cloud graphics company, OTOY, to build a system for creating content. Confirmed to be working on the project included Mike Brown, Steve Waltien, Chelsea Devantez, Lucy Steiner, Kate James, and Robby Slowik.
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Xanthosoma is a genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae. The genus is native to tropical America but widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical regions.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Several are grown for their starchy corms, an important food staple of tropical regions, known variously as malanga, otoy, otoe, cocoyam (or new cocoyam), tannia, tannier, yautía, macabo, ocumo, macal, taioba, dasheen, quequisque, ape and (in Papua New Guinea) as Singapore taro (taro kongkong). Many other species, including especially Xanthosoma roseum, are used as ornamental plants; in popular horticultural literature these species may be known as ‘ape due to resemblance to the true Polynesian 'ape, Alocasia macrorrhizos, or as elephant ear from visual resemblance of the leaf to an elephant's ear.
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