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NextVR Debuts New High Resolution Video Format with NBA Finals Highlights Reels

NextVR, the company specializing in live VR sports and entertainment broadcasting, has already begun its public debut of the new high-resolution video format teased back at CES earlier this year, which comes via free, on-demand game highlights of the 2018 NBA...
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Hulu’s VR Comedy ‘Door No. 1’ Launches Today, Catch the Trailer Here

Hulu's new VR comedy Door No. 1 launches today on the Hulu VR app. Written and directed by Nora Kirkpatrick (The Office, Greeks) and produced by AOL’s immersive film studio RYOT, the single-episode VR comedy will be available on Oculus Go,...

NextVR Introduces NBA 2017-2018 MVP Highlight Reel in Virtual Reality

NextVR, the VR video streaming platform the brings live events to headset users, is introducing the 2017-2018 season NBA MVP highlight reel on the NextVR app. The VR highlight reel brings headset users courtside with this season’s MVP favorites, including...

Samsung Funds Episodic VR Videos, Filmmakers Use Company’s $10K ‘Round 360’ Camera

Samsung today launched 'Pilot Season', a new initiative aimed at putting original episodic VR video content into the Samsung VR Video service. The initiative, which aims to foster the VR filmmaker community and generate exclusive content, has given financial...

Insta360 Extension to Make Editing 360 Video in Adobe Premiere Faster, Higher Quality

Today 360 camera marker Insta360 announced a new extension for Adobe Premiere Pro CC which will bring complete 360 post-production workflow into the video editing program. For filmmakers shooting with the Insta360 Pro camera, the company promises faster editing and...
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‘Campfire Creepers’ Delivers Classic ’80s Horror in VR, Now Available on Oculus Rift & Gear VR

Campfire Creepers is a live-action, 360 anthology series inspired by iconic 1980s horror shows Tales from the Crypt (1989), Creepshow (1982), and the creations of Wes Craven. The first two episodes are now available for both Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR. The...
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Tim Heidecker’s ‘On Cinema’ Goes 360 in a Hilarious Lambaste of VR Video

Tim Heidecker's Adult Swim parody movie review show On Cinema went full 360 in its latest episode, strapping a number of Ricoh Theta 360 cameras around the set. In On Cinema, Heidecker's fictional alter ego is usually looking for the next big...

Group Behind JPEG Unveils New ‘visually lossless’ Compression Standard for VR/AR and More

This week at NAB Show in Las Vegas, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the international committee behind the titular image compression standard, unveiled JPEG XS, a new format that is touted as a lower energy compression solution that provides...

Nicolas Cage’s ‘The Humanity Bureau’ VR Experience is Another Strike Against VR Film Promos

As spring arrives and the swallows come back to Capistrano, so too is it time to endure another annual low-budget film featuring Nicolas Cage. This time, the crew behind Cage's latest film The Humanity Bureau (2018) have thrown a 360 camera in...

Making of ‘Sun Ladies VR’, the Story of Former ISIS Sex Slaves Who Form an All-Female...

The Sun Ladies VR is an amazing story about a group of Yazidi women from the Northern Iraq community of Sinjar, who escaped as sex slaves and started an all-female unit to fight the terrorist organization ISIS. ISIS raided...

‘Sin City’ Director Robert Rodriquez to Debut VR Action Series ‘The Limit’ This Summer

Robert Rodriguez, the director of films such as Sin City (2005), Planet Terror (2007), and the Spy Kids franchise, just wrapped production on a newly announced VR action series with The Fast and the Furious franchise actress Michelle Rodriguez. Called The Limit, the...

How to Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics in VR

The 2018 Winter Olympics is about to kick off in PyeongChang, South Korea today, and this year you'll be able to watch a total of 30 events in VR, shared across live and on-demand 360/180 recordings. NBC has partnered with...

NextVR’s Latest Tech is Bringing New Levels of Fidelity to VR Video

NextVR, a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, has debuted its latest broadcast technology this week at CES 2018. Parallel with new, more powerful and higher resolution VR headsets, improvements to NextVR's technology are...

Kaleidoscope VR on the Funding Landscape for Cinematic VR

After talking to a lot of independent VR storytellers, Kaleidoscope VR's René Pinnell identified that funding was one of the biggest blockers for continued experimentation. Cinematic VR pieces do not have many established distribution channels yet, and so a...

‘Vive Video’ Gets 2.0 Update, Partners with Vimeo to Offer Curated Video Selection

HTC Creative Labs’s free native VR video player has received an upgrade with a new browser interface. The team has also partnered with Vimeo, offering a curated selection of streamable VR video content. Explained in a post on the official...
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