VR Video
Insta360 Opens Reservations for Professional 11K VR Camera ‘Titan’
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...
NBA & NextVR Announce 2018-19 VR Livestream Lineup
The NBA and NextVR, the VR video and livestreaming company, announced the 2018-19 schedule, which will let even more basketball fans experience games in VR.
Now livestreaming its third NBA season, NextVR announced in a blogpost that they're expanding the...
Facebook & RED Unveil ‘Manifold’ Volumetric VR Camera
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...
‘Plex VR’ Social Viewing Is Now Cross-compatible with All Supported VR Headsets
Plex VR, the free PLEX viewer for VR devices that lets you stream locally stored media to your headset, just got an update that includes cross-platform social watching for all supported platforms, including Gear VR, Oculus Go, and Google Daydream...
Oculus Debuts 5K × 5K Mobile VR Playback in ‘Henry’, Now Available on Go & Gear...
John Carmack, Oculus' CTO, has revealed work on a new VR video playback technology which he says is coming to Oculus Go and newer Gear VR phones. To show it off, the company is planning a re-release of the...
VR Video & Broadcast Platform ‘NextVR’ Finally Comes to Vive, Coming Soon to Rift
NextVR, a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, have finally launched their app for the Vive via Viveport after being available for several years on other platforms. The app is also soon to launch...
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...
Google Pays Homage to Film Pioneer Georges Méliès in VR Short ‘Back to the Moon’
Google is celebrating the life and artistry of French film pioneer Georges Méliès today with a charming VR short that commemorates his iconic silent films including the groundbreaking A Trip to the Moon (1902).
Releasing today, the 106th anniversary of his celebrated silent...
Samsung Funds Episodic VR Videos, Filmmakers Use Company’s $10K ‘Round 360’ Camera
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...
‘Campfire Creepers’ Delivers Classic ’80s Horror in VR, Now Available on Oculus Rift & Gear VR
Campfire Creepers is a live-action, 360 anthology series inspired by iconic 1980s horror shows Tales from the Crypt (1989), Creepshow (1982), and the creations of Wes Craven. The first two episodes are now available for both Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.
The...
Group Behind JPEG Unveils New ‘visually lossless’ Compression Standard for VR/AR and More
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...
Nicolas Cage’s ‘The Humanity Bureau’ VR Experience is Another Strike Against VR Film Promos
As spring arrives and the swallows come back to Capistrano, so too is it time to endure another annual low-budget film featuring Nicolas Cage. This time, the crew behind Cage's latest film The Humanity Bureau (2018) have thrown a 360 camera in...
‘Sin City’ Director Robert Rodriquez to Debut VR Action Series ‘The Limit’ This Summer
Robert Rodriguez, the director of films such as Sin City (2005), Planet Terror (2007), and the Spy Kids franchise, just wrapped production on a newly announced VR action series with The Fast and the Furious franchise actress Michelle Rodriguez. Called The Limit, the...
NextVR’s Latest Tech is Bringing New Levels of Fidelity to VR Video
NextVR, a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, has debuted its latest broadcast technology this week at CES 2018. Parallel with new, more powerful and higher resolution VR headsets, improvements to NextVR's technology are...
Kaleidoscope VR on the Funding Landscape for Cinematic VR
After talking to a lot of independent VR storytellers, Kaleidoscope VR's René Pinnell identified that funding was one of the biggest blockers for continued experimentation. Cinematic VR pieces do not have many established distribution channels yet, and so a...




















