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Samsung’s Milk VR Gets New Community Channel, Showcases Emerging VR Filmmakers

Samsung's VR video streaming platform, Milk VR, is loosening up to make way for community-made content. So you too can potentially get eyeballs on your VR video project through the stock Gear VR app (provided your film makes the grade). Announced at this year's SVVR...

‘MythBusters’ and More from Discovery Being Filmed in VR

MythBusters is getting virtual next season with the help of Discovery Digital Media, the wing of Discovery that produces original content and innovative multiplatform experiences. As first reported by Adweek, the MythBusters team has already begun "shooting VR for next season," and...

VR Video Platform ‘EEVO’ Gets $1M in Funding – Revenue Share and Startup Money for Content...

EEVO, a New York based cinematic VR video platform, is preparing to launch into the world of made-for-VR video with its Netflix-style service. Their hopes: to establish a paid (and therefore instantly monetized) service to immediately attract the most compelling premium content from big...

Ex-Lucasfilm Veterans Join with Jaunt VR to Form ‘Jaunt Studios’ to Create Cinematic VR Content

Jaunt VR have today announced they're launching 'Jaunt Studios', a venture dedicated to producing immersive cinematic experiences for virtual reality. The new studio will comprise veteran movie makers from the likes of Lucasfilm, ILM and Digital Domain and it...

Jaunt Releases First iOS Experience, Paul McCartney Performs “Live and Let Die” in Stereo 360

Jaunt, the cinematic VR company known for its host of high-profile 360 video content, has officially entered Apple Territory with its first iOS app—Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" 360 concert. Originally released back in November 2014 on Google Cardboard and Oculus DK1/DK2, Apple fans can...

Rupert Murdoch, 21st Century Fox CEO, Checks out NextVR on Samsung’s Gear VR

Rupert Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox and News Corp, had a chance to try on Samsung's Gear VR recently. NextVR introduced Murdoch to their 360 degree NASCAR recordings. Business mogul Rupert Murdoch sat down with NextVR recently to review some of...

360 Film Aims to Save Majesty of Grand Canyon Using the Power of VR, Kickstarter Now...

The untouched beauty of the Grand Canyon has inspired poets, novelists, film makers, and more than 4 million recreational visitors per year to make their way to the dramatic cliffs that border the Colorado River basin. 360 Labs aims to...

VFX Studio Behind Iron Man 3 and Transformers Forms Partnership for VR Video Content with Immersive...

Digital Domain Holdings Limited and Immersive Media announced yesterday that they are partnering up to create IM360, a joint venture dedicated to creating immersive entertainment not only for tablets, mobile phones and televisions, but more importantly for VR. Digital Domain, an Academy Award-winning visual effects...

VR Support Coming to YouTube’s 360 Degree Video Playback

Earlier this month, YouTube officially threw the digital lever to enable 360 video support for the first time on the video sharing platform. At the time the official announcement of the new functionality didn't include any mention of VR,...

Björk’s 360 VR Music Video “Stone Milker” Debuts Tomorrow, Powered by 3DCeption Audio

Björk is previewing her latest Single "Stone Milker" tomorrow with a music video filmed for virtual reality and leveraging the power of 3D spatial audio as provided by specialists in the field, Two Big Ears and 3DCeption. Linear, non-interactive, immersive...

WEVR Launches $1 Million VR Grant Program, Up to $50,000 Available for VR Storytellers

WEVR, formerly known as WemoLab, announced their new $1Million grant today, a program aimed at anyone looking to get into the new field of cinematic VR. WEVR, the VR company collaborating to produce experiences such as 360 video Space Shuttle Endeavour, and new HTC...

Underwater VR Headset Kickstarter Cancelled, But Not Because It’s An Underwater VR Headset

'Project Nautilus VR', a now cancelled Kickstarter campaign featuring an app and VR headset combo, wanted to take underwater VR experiences for Google Cardboard one step further: by actually putting you and your beloved smartphone head-first into a pool. And the thing is,...

‘AR/VR Austin’ Event During SXSW Celebrates Immersive Tech, Tickets Now Available

Virtual and augmented reality is hitting this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) multimedia festival in Austin in a big way. With more sessions and meetings involving VR than we can count, there's one event happening during the festival for sure not...

HypeVR Captures Ultra-High Def 360 Degree, Depth-Mapped Video Using a 14 x ‘Red Dragons’ and LiDAR

The 360 VR video market is rapidly getting busier. With companies like NextVR and Jaunt racing to develop technologies and deliver content which result in compelling, immersive video for virtual reality, things are moving fast. Now a new company...

HTC Vive and Steam VR has Google, HBO and Lionsgate as Content Developers

Yesterday, Valve and HTC revealed the 'Vive' VR headset, and there's some pretty big names already working on content for the headset. According to the Vive website, Google, HBO, and Lionsgate are already working to create content for the new headset...
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