GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Shang-Chi ( Simu Liu ) and Katy ( Awkwafina ) are simply trying to take a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority—or “Muni” to locals—bus to their jobs as… Read more. There’s a lot of great fight scenes in Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , but the most striking (pun not intended) is also its first.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2020

When it comes to location-based AR gaming, San Francisco-based developer Niantic is at the top of the food chain. Through the creative vision of the Punchdrunk team, Macbeth is presented through a dark and moody cinematic lens inspired by gothic film noir.

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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2019

A total of 17 startups spanning San Francisco, London, Taipei, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Tel Aviv have been selected. This year’s Vive X Demo Days is said to take place in Beijing on May 8th, Tokyo on May 16th, London on May 23rd, and in San Francisco on June 4th.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Back in 2018, the Academy Awards announced a new Oscar, to be given to the Best Popular Film of the year. The idea was to recognize the blockbusters that typically dominate the box office but never manage to make it to the Best Picture category. It didn’t go over wel l, and now, it’s getting worse. Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

With the new seed funding, the company is now moving its headquarters to San Francisco where it will continue to develop its VR software, working between Italy and the US. Mindesk has already published its solution for McNeel Rhinoceros and Grasshopper and soon will publish a version for Dassault SolidWorks.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 24, 2017

Film is an expression of the human imagination; it enables us to see the world from another perspective and escape from our own lives, and 360-degree video and virtual reality are the newest mediums for telling immersive, emotional stories. Learn More About The San Francisco 360-Degree Filmmaking Workshop.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The agenda will cover both enterprise and consumer XR, including AEC, automotive, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, gaming, film, TV and beyond, with the underlying aim to go beyond the hype of XR to understand what are the keys to mass adoption and apply cross-industry knowledge to boost business productivity. About VRX and XR Intelligence.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Just filming with nice camera equipment can cost a few thousand dollars. As the company's CEO David Nussbaum said last week while beaming in live to San Francisco from Los Angeles, "We want to connect the living instead of resurrecting the dead." San Francisco. Credit: Mashable. Credit: Sasha Lekach / Mashable.

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VRScout

MAY 16, 2016

The first program, the 360 Filmmakers Challenge, partners nine San Francisco Bay Area high schools with professional filmmakers to create 3-5 minute 360° films about their communities. Student from Oakland High School filming his project for the 360 filmmaker challenge. Students reviewing their 360 video footage.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Westfield San Francisco Centre, San Francisco, California. Jumanji: Reverse the Curse launches ahead up the upcoming film Jumanji: The Next Level , which is due for release in December. Grand Canal Shoppes in The Venetian and The Palazzo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California.

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2020

Here, friends and strangers can meet-up at the city center to play games like basketball, golf, and darts; watch live sporting events and films; and coordinate with work colleagues. This past March, Rosedale sold his blockchain-powered social platform to San Francisco-based start-up Wookey Project Corp.

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2018

Shared VR experiences seem to be the hot trend making rounds at film festivals this year. It wasn’t long ago that immersive lineups only included VR films that you had to explore by yourself. We got a chance to try the experience with friends at Sundance Film Festival. Afterall, VR is always better with friends.

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Robert Scoble

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Last week a new clinic, Prenuvo, opened near San Francisco, that promises to do just that by doing a full-body MRI scan (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Here I filmed the consultation with Dr. Raj right after my scans were done. This is like a high-resolution X-ray machine except it doesn’t use radiation to make its images.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

San Francisco, California. Moscone Center; San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California. Tribeca Film Festival // April 19th – April 30th. Sidewalk Film Festival // August 24th – August 28th. San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2017

This morning, the Good Morning America team dropped a huge Star Wars fanboy bomb when they announced that Disney and Lucasfilms, the creative…’force’ behind the Star Wars films, have something big planned to generate buzz around their upcoming Force Friday II.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The Assassin’s Creed film is now in theaters and it’s rolling out in style with a companion VR experience playable at select movie theaters across the United States. Metreon 16 — San Francisco, CA. Century City 15 — Los Angeles, CA. Barton Creek 14 — Austin, TX. 34th Street 14 — NYC. Lincoln Square 13 — NYC.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Last night at the Upload Collective in San Francisco, the Nokia Ozo team hosted a masterclass for 360-degree filmmakers. The class was also live streamed using a four camera Ozo setup. Students at the class were able to benefit from the expert teachings of Alex Henning.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I got to go hands-on with the experience during an event today at the company’s San Francisco developer hub. On stage at Microsoft’s Mixed Reality event in San Francisco today, 343 Industries boss Bonnie Ross said that Halo: Recruit “is just scratching the surface of what Halo could be in mixed reality.”

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Cats and VR

MAY 16, 2016

Today Oculus kicked off a new initiative today called VR for Good by launching two pilot VR film programs to inspire the next generation of VR creators – starting with high school students, rising VR filmmakers, and nonprofit organizations. Teams will start their filmmaking journey at a two-day bootcamp at Facebook HQ, July 26-27.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The real-time interactive experience dubbed “This Is Our Future” debuted October 6th at a Conservancy hosted event in San Francisco. This Is Our Future” is not a live action VR film, but instead was built in Unreal, letting you trigger action within the experience, playing with your perception of space, scale and volume.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Her work was recently showcased alongside that of 14 other artists at the Festival of the Impossible in San Francisco, where her piece – half of which existed in the physical world and half of which could only be seen in Augmented Reality – was appropriately called “two sides of the same coin,” and was developed using Project Aero.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2018

Other events hitting Venues later this summer include films screenings from Lionsgate Films, featuring Reservoir Dogs (1992) , Sinister (2012) , Apocalypse Now (1979) , and National Lampoon’s Van Wilder (2002). June 6 // MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks @ San Francisco Giants // 12:45 pm PT. June Showtimes.

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VRScout

AUGUST 11, 2018

Tse’s project, developed using Magic Arrows software, was recently showcased alongside that of 14 other artists at the Festival of the Impossible in San Francisco, where her piece – half of which existed in the physical world and half could only be seen in AR – was appropriately called “two sides of the same coin.”.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Besides Audi’s Holoride, attendees were able to experience multiple immersive backseat entertainment projects, including self-driving cars featuring 270-degree VR films to keep passengers entertained. Lyft is a San Francisco, CA based company offering ridesharing services in the United States and Canada.

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VRScout

JUNE 22, 2016

Even San Francisco-based VR studio, River Studios, opened a LA studio this week to service both Hollywood and social influencer talent. Some blockbuster credits include work on Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Harry Potter films.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

To help promote the new film Sony Pictures Virtual Reality (SPVR) has teamed up with location-based entertainment (LBE) specialist The VOID on an immersive experience called Jumanji: Reverse the Curse. Westfield San Francisco Centre, San Francisco, California. Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2019

Saatchi says that his time at Oculus Story Studio was largely spent trying to figure out how to fuse VR gaming and film to define the art form of immersive storytelling. The suitablye named Virtual Berings Conference is planned for Summer 2019 in San Francisco. “Lucy is always Lucy if she’s in AR or VR.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It marks a potential sigh of relief for Quest 3 and PSVR 2 owners waiting for exciting new content, but also a rare partnership bringing together a huge multi-film intellectual property and one of VR's most veteran development studios. The maps are set across San Francisco, including iconic locations like Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 26, 2016

Az Balabanian, a mixed reality producer and all-around wizard here at Upload, jumped into the studio we built in San Francisco to quickly film a 4-minute video giving a rough overview of how the software works. There’s also a teleportation feature so you can make your way around the scene quickly. Read more here.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

He was also on hand at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco to answer questions about his new book, Sevneves, and a reality that is inching ever more closely to the fantasy he crafted in 1992. Stephenson’s forward thinking has recently landed him a job as a futurist at enigmatic AR company, Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The conference takes place in the heart of San Francisco at the Hilton Financial District Hotel. Already, content owners are experimenting with technologies, venue strategies, and business models to capture unprecedented levels of interest from consumers in trying virtual reality games, film, and interactive art.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Subsequent events, featuring different acts in support of separate causes, will be held in New Orleans on December 9 and Seattle on December 12, with two more yet-to-be-announced shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles at the end of the year.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2017

Penrose Studios’ newest animation tells the hauntingly beautiful story of Mina and her father, who live in a floating shack above a post-apocalyptic, underwater San Francisco. Arden’s Wake.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 1, 2016

San Francisco-based Osterhout Design Group (ODG) said it closed a large $58 million Series A funding round, and will use the money to “accelerate its existing production capabilities” and “complete its new products” to be introduced at CES in January. Shenzhen O-film Tech Co.,

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Passing by this discreetly placed booth at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, you’d have no idea this was home to HBO’s first internally built experience in VR. The installation lacked all HBO branding, instead greeting you with a “Westworld: A Delos Destination” sign flanked by staff dressed head to toe in white.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Last Friday I drove to San Francisco’s North Beach, headed to a venue called HACK Temple —a newly renovated space (and organization) with the aim of helping future-forward thinkers “hack the matrix of Silicon Valley.” “It also could be the ultimate form of global mind control. “It has to be about that.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2018

June 6 // MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks @ San Francisco Giants // 12:45 pm PT. Oculus states that we can expect content from SHOWTIME coming later this summer, plus more film screenings of Lionsgate titles, new concerts from AEG Presents, live NBA League Pass games and additional shows produced by NextVR, MLB games, and more.

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