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‘Jesus VR’ Claims First Ever Feature-length VR Film, to Preview at Venice Film Festival

Jesus VR: The Story of Christ, an upcoming feature-length 360 film, is getting its first public preview at this year's Venice Film Festival. Hailed as the world's first ever feature length VR film production, the 90-minute movie depicts the life, works, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus...
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President Obama Makes His 360 Video Debut

Felix & Paul Studios got together with Oculus Studios and National Geographic to shoot 360 video footage of President Barack Obama's recent Father's Day trip to Yosemite National Park, becoming the first official appearance by Obama in a VR...

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...

Digital Domain’s New 360 Camera to Capture 250 Hours of Major Sports Footage

Digital Domain is to capture some 250 hours of immersive 360 video at a major sporting event in Rio this year using a new bespoke camera of their own design. Visual Effects house Digital Domain have been a familiar name...
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This is How NOT to Shoot 360 Video, According to YouTube

YouTube tells budding VR film-makers what not to do when shooting an immersive 360 in this excellent crash course in this fledgling but ever more popular form of content. With the production of VR film and 360 video becoming ever...
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This Project to Preserve Classic Ghost Trains in VR Needs Your Help

The Dark Ride Project is an initiative that wants to preserve the dying history of the classic carnival ghost train ride by setting out to capture as many as possible in 360 video before they disappear forever. The classic ghost...

National Geographic and “Hurt Locker” Director Team Up on New VR Film

National Geographic are further committing themselves to immersive film-making as they announce a new VR short, co-directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Director of The Hurt Locker, which aims to bring the terrible plight of the African Elephant to VR. National Geographic are to...

Watch Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munich Tonight in VR

Bundesliga champions FC Bayern Munich are up against La Liga's Real Madrid tonight for the 2016 International Champions Cup, and providing you have a Gear VR, you can watch it livestreaming in virtual reality starting August 3rd at 7:30 PM...

New deadmau5 and Absolut Vodka VR Experience is Free and Still Not Worth it

Absolut deadmau5 is a new VR experience featuring electronic music artist deadmau5 (aka Joel Thomas Zimmerman). Released yesterday on Oculus Rift, Gear VR and Google Cardboard, fans get a brief chance to see 360 video of deadmau5's studio and concert, and complete a number of...

NVIDIA Announces ‘VRWorks 360’, Claims “Real-Time” VR Video Stitching

SIGGRAPH 2016 is underway, and as is traditional for NVIDIA, the company has brought with it a raft of professional and prosumer to announce. And for those involved in the rapidly expanding world of 360 video and film, they're announcing...

Memory Capture & Virtual Tourism for the Benefit of Those with Physical Disabilities

Roy Sherrill is enabling the time travelers from the future to get a sense of presence at a number of different tech and cultural events around the San Francisco Bay area. Roy's been shooting a lot of 360 videos...

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...

‘Mr. Robot’ 360 Experience Set to Stream to all Major VR Headsets For Limited Time

Mr. Robot fans take note: a special one-time-only 360 experience is headed your way for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear VR and Google Cardboard-enabled smartphones exactly at 10:45 AM PST on Thursday, July 21st. According to a report by Entertainment Weekly, the 360 experience...

How VR Video is Being Used to Help Kids Conquer Fear of Swimming

A new Swedish initiative hopes to encourage the country's children, one fifth of which cannot swim, some suffering anxiety and fear of water, to take the plunge using a 360 VR video experience. One fifth of children in Sweden are unable...

‘Vrse’ Becomes ‘Within’ and Announces Over $12M in Funding

One of the leading lights in the early days of immersive cinema and 360 film-making, Chris Milks has announced $12 in series A funding for his company Vrse, along with its new name - 'Within'. We reported earlier in the...
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