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Google’s Latest Spotlight Story ‘Age of Sail’ Delivers a Powerful & Emotional VR Experience

Google just released Age of Sail, its latest Spotlight Story for VR headsets. The company's ability to assemble talent to deliver quick but meaningful storytelling seems to have paid off again, as Age of Sail hits a home run in nearly every...

Award-Winning VR Space Experience ‘SPHERES’ Lands on Rift

SPHERES is a three-chapter space experience from Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures and writer/director Eliza McNitt that takes you on a trip through a universe filled with sound. Once featured at film festivals the world over, including Sundance and the...
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Facebook Artist Unveils Impressive Oculus Quest Experience ‘The Last Oasis’, Built in ‘Quill’

Facebook Art Director Goro Fujita works at the company's Social VR team, and while he's typically occupied with creating modest, but fantastical “quillistrations” as a part of his daily regime using Facebook's first-party art tool Quill (2017), Fujita today unveiled...

‘Apollo 11 VR’ Studio Partners with Shenandoah University to Create the Next Generation of VR Training...

Virginia's Shenandoah University is the first in the state to offer a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science in AR/VR design. To further round out the department's facilities, the university announced it's partnering with Immersive VR Education,...

Philip K. Dick-inspired VR Story ‘The Great C’ Brings Expert Cinematic Flair

Secret Location, developers behind Blasters of the Universe (2017), today launched a Philip K. Dick-inspired VR adaptation of The Great C, a sci-fi short story that follows a tribe of humans oppressed by an artificially intelligent overlord. The titular VR experience...

David Bowie Retrospective to Land on VR & AR Devices This Fall

Sony will soon release an AR and VR adaptation of the late, great David Bowie's commemorative museum retrospective 'David Bowie is'. Featured first at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, ‘David Bowie is’ attracted over 2 million visitors across the...
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Photorealistic VR Tour ‘Nefertari: Journey to Eternity’ Takes You Deep into a 3,000 Year-old Egyptian Tomb

Using state-of-the-art photogrammetry technology with millimeter accuracy, Simon Che de Boer of Reality Virtual and Experius VR have digitally scanned Nerfertari's tomb, letting owners of Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets step inside the fabled burial site and learn about the over 3,000...
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‘Silicon Valley’ VR Experience Lets You Explore Erlich Bachman’s Incubator, Now on Rift & Vive

VR headset users now have a chance to walk into an interactive version of HBO's Silicon Valley house. The Palo Alto home, which is owned by the series' eccentric startup guru Erlich Bachman (T.J. Miller), was lovingly recreated in VR,...

Google ‘Tour Creator’ Lets You Build VR Tours Using Streetview & Your Own 360 Photos

Google today launched Tour Creator, a web-based tool that lets you easily build a VR 'tour' using imagery from Google Street View and even your own 360 photos. The company released the tool as a part of Teacher Appreciation...

‘I AM A MAN’ Puts You at the Heart of the Civil Rights Struggle, Now Available...

I AM A MAN is an interactive VR experience that lets you participate in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Created by Dr. Derek Ham, an assistant professor...

Oculus to Send 6 VR Projects to Tribeca Film Festival 2018

The Tribeca Film Festival starts next month, an annual screening of everything from indie documentaries to family-friendly films. Coming to the festival's Immersive program, which showcases works by artists who are pushing boundaries and using cutting-edge technology, are six Oculus-funded projects. Oculus most...
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BBC Brings VR Nature Experience ‘BBC Earth: Life in VR’ to Daydream

BBC Worldwide and Google have partnered to bring a new BBC Earth VR experience to Daydream. Dubbed BBC Earth: Life in VR, the computer generated experience takes the user to the Californian coast, and the bustling underwater world filled with sea life nearby. Production studio Preloaded says that...

Oculus-funded VR Experience ‘SPHERES’ Sold at Sundance in “Seven-Figure Deal”

SPHERES, a three-chapter space experience from Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, was just bought by VR finance and distribution firm CityLights in what Variety describes as a "seven-figure deal." While the respective companies are remaining mum on the exact price of the acquisition,...

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 at the New Frontier section of Sundance—all of which they helped bring to life. Sundance's New Frontier hosts a curated selection of...
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Oculus Story Studio Alumni Form New Studio to Push Boundaries of VR Storytelling & Affordability

Oculus Story Studio, the company's internal production studio tasked with creating ridiculously polished cinematic experiences, first announced they'd be winding down production last summer. Now officially defunct, studio alumni are heading off on their own to form a new firm dubbed...
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