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Facebook & RED Unveil ‘Manifold’ Volumetric VR Camera

Last May, Facebook and RED Digital Cinema announced they were working on a volumetric video camera based on Facebook’s Surround360 technology. At Oculus Connect 5 today, the company's annual developer conference, Facebook and RED revealed a first-look at the...

Google ‘Tour Creator’ Lets You Build VR Tours Using Streetview & Your Own 360 Photos

Google today launched Tour Creator, a web-based tool that lets you easily build a VR 'tour' using imagery from Google Street View and even your own 360 photos. The company released the tool as a part of Teacher Appreciation...

Motorola to Launch 360 Camera ‘Mod’ Alongside Latest Moto Z Phone

Motorola today unveiled their latest phone, the Moto Z2 Force Edition, and alongside it will come a 360-degree camera that the company says snaps onto any phone in the Moto Z lineup. Launching with the Moto Z2 Force on August...

GoPro Ships First ‘Fusion’ 360 Cameras to 10 Select Broadcasters

GoPro's first batch of Fusion 360 cameras is now headed to some big brands, agencies and content creators as part of a pilot program to help source initial content partners. GoPro started taking applications in April. Picking from a pool of more...

Ricoh Announces Theta SC, a Colorful Mid-Range Addition to 360 Camera Lineup

Ricoh, the Japanese imaging and electronics company, today announced a new model of the Theta, the company's pocketable 360 camera. It's called Theta SC. The new Theta SC is a lighter, more colorful version of the Theta that has almost everything...

Matterport Creates the “World’s Largest Library” of Real-World VR Places

Immersive media company Matterport have just announced they're to make available what they claim is the world's largest collection of VR-focussed real-world models and locations in a bid to become a source of experiences for VR consumers. Update: The original...

Uncorporeal Claims They Can Create 3D VR Scenes from Your Photos

Uncorporeal are unveiling what it terms as it's "Holographic Photography Technology" which the team claim will allow anyone with a smartphone to create 360 VR viewable scenes with 3D parallax from a few dozen photos. Static photogrammetry, the process of capturing...

Take an Immersive Drive Through the World’s Most Secretive Country

North Korea is one of the most secretive states in the world, but one man received permission from the nation's strict regime to capture a drive through its capital Pyongyang. It's a rare and immersive peek into a world...

Google Play Movies, Street View, YouTube, and More Coming to ‘Daydream’ Android VR Platform

Google may have shipped over 5 million Cardboard smartphone adapters, but it seems the company is significantly elevating their commitment to virtual reality with the announcement made today at Google I/O. Daydream, the newly revealed Android-powered VR platform, is...

NVIDIA Announces “Ansel” a New Tool that Captures In-Game 360 3D Photos

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today announced a new tool at the company's 'Special Event' that will allow users to natively capture 360 images in-game, and then view them in VR headsets. The news accompanied the long-awaited announcement of the company's newest...

Samsung’s Gear 360 Specs in Full, Launching Q2 2016

Samsung's Gear 360 launched today at the company's Unpacked event, so what exactly is this diminutive immersive capture device capable of? Here are the official specifications direct from Samsung and whilst some impress, others leave a little to be...

A Tour of Samsung’s New Gear 360 Camera in 9 Hi Res Images

At Unpacked in Barcelona today, Samsung announced the Gear 360, a highly portable, monoscopic 360, spherical camera designed for the everyday user. Samsung have pulled out all the stops on the Gear 360 and its design is one of the...

The Four Different Types of Stories in VR

For the past year, Devon Dolan has been trying to make sense of the interactive storytelling landscape that's possible within virtual reality. He comes from a world of story where he's currently an associate at Cinetic Media, which is...

GoPro’s Odyssey Camera, Google Jump and History of 360-Degree Video

Jim Geduldick is the Professional Marketing Manager at GoPro, which includes all of the ways GoPro cameras are used within cinema, virtual reality, broadcast television & photography. Jim talks about how the history of spherical video at GoPro goes...

Nikon’s 4K 360 Camera is Rugged and Ready, But Maybe Not for VR

Nikon, the Japanese multinational giant known for everything from simple point-and-shoots to some of the most sophisticated optics on the market, has built a 360 action camera capable of up to 4K UHD video and still images, dubbed KeyMission 360. Although...
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