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YouTube Confirms Stereo 3D 360 Video Support Coming ‘Soon’

After recently adding support for 360 degree videos to YouTube, the company now says that 360 + stereoscopic 3D video support is on the way. The streaming service currently supports 360 or 3D videos, but not both together. Google's tentative toe...
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‘Warcraft’ VR Movie Teaser Has You Soaring Over an Insanely Detailed Fantasy City

Leading up to the release of the Warcraft movie, Legendary Pictures has released an immersive movie trailer that gives you a 360 degree aerial view of Stormwind, one of the capital cities of the land of Azeroth. Created by developer...

‘Inside the Box of Kurios’ Is Your Ticket to a World-class VR Performance

Inside the Box of Kurios is a brand new VR experience from Felix & Paul Studios which gives you a brilliant view of a Cirque du Soleil performance that's been specially tailored for virtual reality. If you've got Gear VR, you've...

NextVR Livestreams US Open Golf Tournament in VR, App Coming to “All VR Devices”

NextVR and FOX Sports have recently partnered to bring live streaming VR to the 2015 U.S. Open golf tournament. Live VR broadcasts of the event were available onsite and across select North American cities via Gear VR headsets. NextVR, a company focused...

IC Real Tech Closes $15M Investment Round to Develop 360 VR Streaming Cameras

IC Real Tech, a Florida based company specializing in surveillance cameras, has recently announced a successful investment round closing out at $15 million. Investment funds will go to continue development on the company's pro-level IC720 camera and the consumer-level ALLie 360 x...

‘River’ VR Accelerator Startups Showcased at Founder Field Day (part 3)

The first class of Rothenberg Ventures’ ‘River’ VR accelerator have graduated. Thirteen companies, in which Rothenberg invested a combined $1.3 million, showed off their latest work at the company’s annual Founder Field Day event. Road to VR was on the...
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Behind-the-scenes With Google’s New Live-action 360 Short Film ‘Help’

During ATAP's presentation at this year's Google I/O, the in-house skunkworks debuted HELP, a new live-action 360 monster movie made in collaboration with The Mill and Star Trek 3 director Justin Lin. Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) has recently debuted HELP, a made-for-VR 360...

Google ‘Jump’ is an Open VR Camera Design with “Seamless” Stitching Solution and YouTube Playback

Amidst other VR related announcements from Google at today's I/O 2015 conference comes 'Jump', a VR camera that will follow Cardboard's path by offering up an open design. Google is also revealing the 'Assembler' which the company says can...

GoPro to Make 16 Camera VR Film Rig Based on Google’s ‘Jump’ Design

GoPro, the biggest name in rugged 'action' video cameras, is ready to jump into the VR space with a 16 camera array based on Google's new 'Jump' design for 360 degree VR video. Just three years ago, the idea that big...

LiveLike Combines the Cameras of Today with the VR of Tomorrow

While other companies are busy building 360 degree camera rigs and hoping for consumer adoption, VR startup LiveLike has a unique approach which uses existing broadcast camera tech in a surprisingly effective way to make you feel like you're...

VR Support Coming to YouTube’s 360 Degree Video Playback

Earlier this month, YouTube officially threw the digital lever to enable 360 video support for the first time on the video sharing platform. At the time the official announcement of the new functionality didn't include any mention of VR,...

NASCAR is NextVR’s Latest Pit Stop for Live VR Video

From the beginning, NextVR has been positioning its VR video technology toward live broadcasting, especially for sports. We've already seen NextVR demo their technology with the NBA, NHL, and more, while their latest test has taken them to Auto Club Speedway...

Facebook Experimenting with Live VR Video ‘Teleportation Station’, Adding 360 Video with Oculus Rift Playback

At Facebook's F8 conference which kicked off today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to open the event. There he revealed that the company will bring support for 360 degree video to the Facebook News Feed, capable of playback...

YouTube Now Supports 360 Video, No VR Support (Yet)

Today YouTube announced that the video streaming service will now support 360 degree video that can be viewed in the browser or through the Android YouTube app. There's no VR support yet, but I've got a feeling that we can...
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