Cinematic VR
NVIDIA Announces ‘RTX’, Real-Time Ray Tracing Engine for Volta GPUs
NVIDIA today announced RTX, a GPU accelerated technology capable of producing photo-realistic imagery through realtime ray-tracing, all accelerated on...
Oculus Sends 5 VR Experiences to Sundance 2018
The Sundance Film Festival just kicked off in Park City, Utah, and Oculus announced in a blogpost they're debuting five experiences...
Preview: Jon Favreau’s ‘Gnomes and Goblins’ Sparks the Imagination and Demands Your Curiosity
Gnomes & Goblins is a real-time interactive experience currently in development by VR production company Wevr and created by film...
‘ABE VR’ is Now Available for Free, Becomes BBFC’s First Rated VR Title
ABE VR is a psychological horror experience recently released for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that puts you in the...
Crytek and Basemark Accidentally Made the Most Spectacular Cinematic VR Short I’ve Ever Seen
At GDC 2016 I saw an early version of VRScore, a virtual reality benchmarking program created in collaboration with...
‘Blackout’ Explores Immersive Narrative in NYC’s Subway, Kickstarter Now Live
Blackout is a narrative virtual reality experience from creative studio Specular which merges a real-time game environment with depth-captured...
VR as Empathy Machine: Under Promise, Over Deliver
The latest in a series of regular articles exploring virtual reality, Noah Nelson today ponders how the rise of VR...
Building Empathy with a 360-degree Video about a Sexual Assault from Two Perspectives
Specular Theory CMO Ryan Pulliam and founder Morris May talk about some of the 360-degree video experiences that they've...
This ‘Paranormal Activity’ VR HTC Vive Reaction Video is Hilarious
As we reported recently, Paramount Pictures are currently rolling out demo booths to 15 AMC theaters across the US...
MPC and Sony Pictures Brings VFX Skills to ‘Goosebumps’ VR Experience
VFX specialists MPC have collaborated with Sony Pictures on building a virtual reality experience to promote the box office...
Former Samsung VR Designer Focusing on New Company
Samsung's former Design Lead Alex Chu helped bring the Gear VR headset to life and was instrumental in the...
Ridley Scott is Working on a VR Experience “You’ve got to, you’d be stupid not to”
There are few directors who can lay claim to creating crucial pillars of geek culture in the way Ridley...
Disney Leads $65 Million Investment in Jaunt’s VR Camera & Content Business
Jaunt, the company who has blazed an early trail in the capture and distribution of cinematic 360 videos, has...
This ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ VR Scene is Re-created Straight from a Blu-Ray Disc
This impressive virtual reality recreation of Mad Max: Fury Road is extrapolated entirely from frames on a Blu-Ray disc,...
‘Waves of Grace’ is the Powerful 360 Film of an Ebola Survivor from the UN and VRSE
To help raise awareness and show the impact of Ebola in that area, the United Nations and Vice Media...
