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WWE is NextVR’s Newest Partner, Steaming Wrestling Highlights Globally for Free

NextVR, the company delivering live events in VR, and pro wrestling company WWE announced a new partnership to bring highlights from select WWE special events to VR headsets this year. The special VR highlights will clock in around 10 minutes in...

NextVR Plans 6DOF, Increased Quality, and AR Support for Live VR Video in 2018

Today, live event broadcasting specialists NextVR announced three technology advancements to their platform coming this year: six degrees of freedom-enabled content, higher resolution output, and augmented reality support. A sneak peek of the technologies is being shown to media...

‘AUTO’: A Realistic Look at the Human Impact of Near-future Technology

AUTO is a 360-video and morality tale available on Jaunt that takes a near-future look at the human impact of automation and emerging technology. It's not a grotesque satire in the vein of Black Mirror, but it's done in a...

Apple Final Cut Pro X Update Adds a “Complete Toolset” for 360 Video Editing

Alongside today's launch of the new iMac Pro, which the company is pitching as an ideal machine for VR creators, Apple has updated its widely used video editing software, Final Cut Pro X, with what it calls a "complete...

NFL Debuts Season 2 of ‘NFL Immersed’ Immersive Football Documentary

Google and the NFL today announced season two of Immersed, the multi-episode docuseries following NFL players on and off the field. The first three episodes are available today on Daydream through YouTube VR and the NFL’s YouTube channel. According to...

Samsung Introduces Pro-focused ‘360 Round’ Camera for 4K 3D Livestreaming

Announced at the Samsung Developer conference last week, the 360 Round is the company’s new camera for creating and streaming 4K 3D content. The camera appears to be a reboot of the 'Project Beyond' camera that the company introduced...

AMC Channel Launches 360 Video App Featuring ‘Walking Dead’ 360 Shorts

Popular American cable TV channel AMC has launched the AMC VR app for Gear VR and Daydream featuring 360 video content, movie trailers, and more. Now available on Gear VR and Daydream (and as flat apps on iOS and Android), the...

Felix & Paul’s VR Comedy Series ‘The Confessional’ Launches on Daydream and YouTube

Felix & Paul Studios, the Emmy award-winning VR film producers, and the Just For Laughs comedy festival have launched the first episode of a new VR video project called The Confessional, a seven-episode comedy series available on Daydream and YouTube. The 3D, 360-degree VR...

Discovery and Google Announce VR Travel Series ‘Discovery TRVLR’, First of 38 Episodes to Arrive in...

Discovery and Google today announced the launch of a new 38-episode VR video series called Discovery TRVLR, a product of both Discovery and Google’s internal VR teams. The first 6 episodes is slated to launch on Friday, November 3. Discovery TRVLR comes exclusively...

Intel to Bring 2018 Olympic Winter Games Experience to Windows Mixed Reality

Announced during the main press briefing at Microsoft’s event held in San Francisco, Intel will be bringing a ‘Windows Mixed Reality experience’ for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. This forms part of a multi-year technology partnership between...

Opera Browser Adds 360 Video Player for VR Headsets, Plans Full WebVR Support

For OpenVR-compatible headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, watching streaming 360 video from from your browser is now as simple as clicking a button and putting on your headset. This is all thanks to Opera's latest version of its developer...

STXsurreal Partners With Google to Launch Pay-Per-View VR Video, Aiming to Become ‘HBO of VR’

STXsurreal, the immersive media division of STX Entertainment, is partnering up with Google’s VR team to launch a new "pay-per-experience" app on the Daydream VR platform, which will host a selection of curated live-action 360 films. Casting it as the 'HBO or Showtime...

Felix & Paul’s ‘The People’s House’ 360 Video Wins an Emmy

The second night of the 69th Emmy Awards saw a number of nominations for virtual reality content, including rendered experiences and 360 video spanning a diverse swath of genres. Taking home an Emmy this year was The People's House: Inside the White House...

The Guardian Launches VR-illustrated 360 Short Film ‘Sea Prayer’

Acclaimed author Khaled Hosseini’s short story inspired by Alan Kurdi—the three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in 2015—has been illustrated using Tilt Brush for a unique 360 degree short film. Sea Prayer is the latest of...

Inception Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Led By EU Media Conglomerate RTL Group

Inception’s ambitions to become the ‘Netflix of VR’ have just received a major boost, with the Tel Aviv-based company closing a $15 million Series A funding round led by media and broadcast giant RTL Group. Launched in October 2016,...
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