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‘Vive Video’ Gets 2.0 Update, Partners with Vimeo to Offer Curated Video Selection

HTC Creative Labs’s free native VR video player has received an upgrade with a new browser interface. The team has also partnered with Vimeo, offering a curated selection of streamable VR video content. Explained in a post on the official...

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...

Apple Final Cut Pro X Update Adds a “Complete Toolset” for 360 Video Editing

Alongside today's launch of the new iMac Pro, which the company is pitching as an ideal machine for VR creators, Apple has updated its widely used video editing software, Final Cut Pro X, with what it calls a "complete...

Exclusive: Lytro Reveals Immerge 2.0 Light-field Camera with Improved Quality, Faster Captures

Lytro's Immerge light-field camera is meant for professional high-end VR productions. It may be a beast of a rig, but it's capable of capturing some of the best looking volumetric video that I've had my eyes on yet. The...

Pixvana Raises $14M Series A Investment for Cloud-based VR Video Platform

Pixvana, a Seattle-based startup creating a cloud-based processing and delivery platform for VR video, today announced a $14 million Series A funding round led by Vulcan Capital with participation from Raine Ventures, Microsoft Ventures, Cisco Investments and Hearst Ventures,...

Felix & Paul’s VR Comedy Series ‘The Confessional’ Launches on Daydream and YouTube

Felix & Paul Studios, the Emmy award-winning VR film producers, and the Just For Laughs comedy festival have launched the first episode of a new VR video project called The Confessional, a seven-episode comedy series available on Daydream and YouTube. The 3D, 360-degree VR...

Felix & Paul’s ‘The People’s House’ 360 Video Wins an Emmy

The second night of the 69th Emmy Awards saw a number of nominations for virtual reality content, including rendered experiences and 360 video spanning a diverse swath of genres. Taking home an Emmy this year was The People's House: Inside the White House...

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,...

Google to Bring 3D 180 ‘Point-and-Shoot’ Cameras to Vloggers this Winter

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...

NBA Finals Prove That VR Sports Broadcasting is Maturing, But There’s Still Missing Pieces

Sports in VR is squarely in the realm of low-hanging VR that you often hear rattled off on five fingers when broaching the topic of industries VR will revolutionize. And while it's easy to imagine, actual execution is a...

Valve and Pixvana Bring High-quality Adaptive VR Video to Steam, Beta Launches Today

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...

Intel to 360 Livestream PGA Tour at TPC Sawgrass Golf Course on Gear VR

Broadcast during all four days of The Players Championship starting May 11th, 360 video will be livestreamed from the famous 17th hole at the TPC Sawgrass golf course. The collaboration with Intel, Twitter, and the PGA Tour will be...
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‘Alien: Covenant In Utero’ VR Experience Launches Wednesday

The forthcoming Alien: Covenant movie is getting a VR experience, Alien: Covenant In Utero and it launches this Wednesday on Oculus platforms. Following the news of director Ridley Scott's film production company launching a VR division, the release date for the Alien: Covenant In...

This Drone Broadcasts 6k 360 VR Video Wirelessly up to 5 Miles

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...

The Guru 360° is a Clever Portable Stabiliser for 360° Cameras

The Guru 360° is the first 3-axis gimbal designed specifically for 360-degree cameras. Adding to the flexibility of the MOZA interchangeable gimbal system, the unit works with all lightweight 360-degree cameras with minimal obstruction to the field of view. 360-degree...
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