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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...

Social VR Sports Viewing Platform livelike Raises $9.6 Million

Social VR sports viewing startup livelike has announced a Series B investment of $9.6 million. Livelike is building a social sports viewing platform for VR and AR devices. The company's product focuses on connecting remote users into 'virtual suite' where...

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...

NextVR to Broadcast NFL Game Highlights in VR Following 5 Games this Season

Are you ready for some VR football highlights? NextVR, a familiar name in VR sports broadcasting—with earlier VR livestreaming initiatives with the NBA, NHL, and more—and the NFL return for a second season of post-game immersive highlight content in...

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,...

Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR

Live VR broadcasts from the world's biggest sporting leagues are steadily becoming easier to find. A major new three year partnership between Intel and MLB, America's leading baseball league, will bring weekly live baseball games streamed in VR for free to...

NextVR and the Future of Immersive Sports Live-streaming

Virtual Reality has the power to transport you to anywhere in the world, and NextVR has been one of the leaders of giving you a front row seat to live sporting events including hockey, boxing, NASCAR, basketball, soccer, and...

WWE Goes 360 on Gear VR via Milk VR Platform

The entertainment industry seem to be slowly realising that the next generation of fans may well prefer immersive viewing options to consume their favourite sports. According to a press release, the WWE will now bring wrestling fans closer to the action...

Gunter S. Thompson on Hosting Talk Shows in Virtual Reality

Gunter S. Thompson has been hosting talk shows in virtual reality since April of 2014, and been participating in many of the early social VR experiences ranging from Minecrift, VRChat, and Riftmax Theater. He talks about some of the...
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Video Essay: “Is technology changing storytelling?” by Rogier Postma, Watch it Here First

Storytelling is evolving in response to advances in interactive technology, but how is that manifesting itself? Road to VR present the premiere of this video essay by Rogier Postima,  a veteran filmmaker of 15 years, which aims to explore...

News Bits: Jaunt VR Releases Paul McCartney ‘Live and Let Die’ 360 VR Experience on Windows...

Jaunt VR, having received millions in venture capital funding this year, have their sights on pioneering 360 3D VR video content. Their first publicly available experience, Paul McCartney performing "Live and Let Die" live, launched on the Google Play store...

News Bits: ‘Affordable’ Oculus Rift 3D Camera Rig Demonstrated (Video)

Virtual Reality cinema and video is quickly becoming the hot topic. A seemingly endless stream of '360' cameras are spawning, Jaunt VR of course recently won $6M+ backing for it's 3D 360 VR cinema venture and it seems even...

VR Cinema Is Booming, Filmmakers Felix & Paul Talk Pioneering 3D 360 Venture ‘Once’

'Look Around' Video Content Set To Explode Whilst VR is generally a 360 degree experience, traditional filmmakers and production companies are exploring how 360 degree video can revolutionize storytelling and make a viewer feel more emotionally involved. Last week, Jaunt VR...

Inside Look: Jaunt Pulls in $6.8 Million in Venture Funding for Virtual Reality Cinema Toolset

After nearly a year, Jaunt comes out of stealth mode today with what they hope will be the launch of a new content medium: cinematic virtual reality. For many months now, they have teased on their their website: "At...

Condition One Blows the Door Open for Virtual Reality Cinematography With Zero Point

At GDC 2014, Condition One was showing a rough cut of their forthcoming virtual reality documentary, Zero Point. After experiencing the film first-hand, I came away extremely impressed and convinced that virtual reality cinema will be part of our...
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