Felix & Paul, the studio known for its pioneering work in creating cinematic immersive films, is set to release the first installment in a new VR trilogy shot from the International Space Station (ISS), which is slated to offer...

As far as live-action VR video is concerned, volumetric video is the gold standard for immersion. And for static scene capture, the same holds true for photogrammetry. But both methods have limitations that detract from realism, especially when it...

LIV develops software for mixed reality video capture, and over the years it's become the de facto method for streamers showing themselves immersed in VR from a third-person perspective. For best results though, using LIV invariably means you'll need...

Google unveiled a method of capturing and streaming volumetric video, something Google researchers say can be compressed down to a lightweight format capable of even being rendered on standalone VR/AR headsets. Both monoscopic and stereocopic 360 video are flawed insofar...

NextVR, the live event broadcasting platform for VR headsets, has been acquired by Apple in what was reportedly a $100 million purchase. Update (March 15th, 2020): For the first time since reports broke back in April, Apple has confirmed that...

Google seems to be taking somewhat of a step back from VR, as Variety reports the company will be shutting down its Jump program for good next month. Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video...

Insta360, the manufacturers behind consumer & professional VR cameras, today opened reservations for the Titan, a professional-level 11K VR camera for 360 video and photos. The Titan includes a number of shooting modes including 11K monoscopic at 30 fps, 10K...

Last May, Facebook and RED Digital Cinema announced they were working on a volumetric video camera based on Facebook’s Surround360 technology. At Oculus Connect 5 today, the company's annual developer conference, Facebook and RED revealed a first-look at the...

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...

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...

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...

HypeVR is developing volumetric video tech which we called "a glimpse at the future of VR video," when we got to see it back in January. Now the company has adapted their system for Apple's ARKit, showing how phone-based...

To fit alongside the company' Daydream mobile VR platform, Google is partnering with Lenovo, LG, and YI Technology to create a new class of 180 cameras. Called VR180, the point-and-shoot video cameras create stereoscopic 180 video that can be uploaded or...

Pixvana, makers of the cloud-based 360 video creation studio SPIN, today announced that their software services—integrated at the core of Valve's own Steam 360 Video Player—will be launching today into beta. This effectively lets SPIN users publish their VR videos directly...

360 Designs have revealed a new drone which carries the company's 6k 360 VR video camera and a payload capable of broadcasting that imagery "over 5 miles" from a companion base station, which the company says means live-streamable, "broadcast...