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Oculus’ Joseph Chen Leaves to Join VR Video Specialists VRSE.Works

One of the longest serving members at Oculus, Joe Chen will be a familar face to anyone who has followed that company's meteoric rise over the last few years. But now, he's moving to pastures new, jumping ship to VRSE.Works, an...

‘[NUREN] The New Renaissance’ Oculus Rift DK2 Demo Now Available (video)

The developers of The New Renaissance have released a demo of their feature-length virtual reality music experience, showing a segment that reminds me of just why I got into this VR business in the first place: dancing robot girls...

Oculus Story Studio Promo Video Reveals 5 VR Short Films in the Works

Yesterday Oculus revealed that it had formed 'Story Studio', an internal team dedicated to experimenting with real-time CG VR cinema. Today the company has put out a promo video which reveals that the studio has five VR short films...

Oculus Internal ‘Story Studio’ Draws Pixar Talent, Experiments with CG Cinematic VR

In the early days, it appeared that Oculus was taking a hardware and platform approach—'if you build it, will come.' But now with some 250 employees and the backing of Facebook, Oculus has begun working on first-party games,...

Exclusive: Visionary Genius Behind ‘BUTTS’ Elucidates on Must-see VR Masterpiece

Tyler Hurd's Proto Award nominated "BUTTS: The VR Experience" is a VR masterpiece for the ages. How did this creative genius manage to distill such tear-worthy beauty into a VR experience of only two minutes? Not content to guess, we...

Visionary VR is Reinventing Filmmaking’s Most Fundamental Concept to Tell Stories in Virtual Reality

Several of the founders of the VRLA Meetup are today launching Visionary VR, a technology and content development studio which is reinventing the language of filmmaking for effective storytelling in virtual reality. The frame. It’s a simple, but incredibly powerful concept...

Get a Taste for Samsung’s Milk VR 360 Videos Without a Gear VR

We reported recently on Samsung's initiative in 360 degree VR videos when it launched its dedicated content portal Milk VR last week. Well, the website is now online, allowing those not fortunate enough to own a Gear VR to take...

CES 2015: Fox to Debut ‘Wild’ VR 360 Movie Experience Starring Reese Witherspoon

20th Century Fox are to debut a new VR movie proof of concept featuring Reese Witherspoon to promote the upcoming feature film Wild. The 3 minute experience is to be on show at CES in Las Vegas next week and...

First Look: Coldplay’s Virtual Reality Concert ‘Ghost Stories’ Shot by NextVR

NextVR, a company focusing on live-broadcast 360 degree 3D VR video, has recently announced the first piece of content that they will publically release: Colplay's Ghost Stories Virtual Reality Concert Experience. The company will start by releasing a VR video...

Getting Traditional Filmmakers to Think ‘Outside the Frame’ for Cinematic VR

As more cinematic VR content emerges from early pioneers, traditional filmmakers are starting to catch on to the massive potential that virtual reality holds for immersive storytelling. However, the 'flat screen' is a very mature medium, one which has...

Jaunt Releases 3 New Cinematic VR Trailers for Oculus Rift and Android

Jaunt has just released three trailers for its forthcoming cinematic VR content. The trailers, available for Oculus Rift on PC and Mac, and on Android, showing clips from The Mission, Kaiju Fury, and Black Mass. Last month we spoke with Jaunt's...

The Race to Create the ‘YouTube of VR’ is On

Competitors are lining up to introduce the world to the very first 360 degree video-sharing service, a concept that could soon become an industry standard for both the newly emerging mobile VR scene and PC-driven VR headsets alike. VCEMO (pronounced...

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...

DreamWorks Reveals Glimpse of 360 Degree ‘Super Cinema’ Rendering for VR Films (video)

On stage at Samsung's 2014 developer conference last week, Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, spoke about the company's initial work with virtual reality on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR. Though they've produced several real-time...

Paul McCartney’s ‘Live and Let Die’ Performance is Jaunt VR’s First Publically Available Cinematic VR Content

Jaunt VR, the company creating tech for capturing 360 degree 3D VR experiences, has today finally revealed their first publically available content: a performance taken from Sir Paul McCartney's recent Candlestick Park gig in San Francisco earlier this year. McCartney 360 3D...
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