Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Park City, Utah is already preparing for next month’s annual Sundance Film Festival, and this time around 18 AR & VR films and exhibitions are set to debut at the festival’s New Frontier program. The post Sundance Film Festival to Feature 18 VR & AR Experiences Next Month appeared first on Road to VR.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Even though no one will actually be in Park City, Utah to see it, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival is still happening. It’s taking place mostly online from January 28-February 3 and anyone can go, if they buy tickets and passes. Those go on sale January 7 so, in the build-up to that, we went through the schedule and… Read more.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2019

Debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival ‘New Frontiers’ exhibit, Gloomy Eyes follows Gloomy, a pint-sized zombie struggling to find his place in a bleak world fractured by ongoing conflicts between the zombie and human populations. Gloomy Eyes is without doubt one of the more polished VR films released at Sundance this year.

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JANUARY 22, 2017

The Sundance Film Festival is this weekend and next in Utah, giving new mixed reality projects a moment in the spotlight. baobab , felix & paul , invasion , Meta , sundance film festival. New VR productions at the festival show an enormous leap in quality from its first real appearance there in 2012. Tagged with: Asteroids!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this years’ Sundance Film Festival will be conduced remotely via a custom-built spatialized online platform, allowing visitors to interact with each other as well as the exhibits via their computer or VR headset. Namoo – U.S.A. Weirdo Night – U.S.A.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Next year’s Sundance Film Festival will see a very prominent role for VR, MR and AI-centric productions, based on a media release by the Sundance Institute. Launched in 2007, it is directed at curating productions “at the convergence of film, art, media, live performance, music and technology.” Image courtesy of the Sundance Institute.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 25, 2018

The bastion of cinema — the Sundance Film Festival — is bravely exploring the VR medium and trying to engage its audience into the new immersive experience this week in Park City, Utah. The post VR and AR at the Sundance Film Festival appeared first on VR World.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2019

Dubbed The ISS Experience, over the course of the next year VR cameras will provide what the makers call “unprecedented access to a participatory experience—one that will culminate with the first-ever filming of a spacewalk in cinematic virtual reality.” The project’s first VR scene was filmed on Friday, January 25th.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 15, 2022

In the trailer we see the electric truck off-roading in Moab, Utah, carving through icy roads in Michigan, and showing off its distinctive diagonal driving in CrabWalk mode. The film includes interviews with the engineers and designers who brought back the Hummer as an electric pickup, in the middle of a pandemic.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2019

Oculus today announced that it’s bringing two VR experiences to this year’s Sundance Film Festival— the previously announced Traveling While Black for Oculus Go & Rift, and the newly unveiled The Under Presents for Oculus Quest. Sundance 2019 will be taking place from January 24th – February 3rd in Park City, Utah.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 20, 2017

HTC Vive and Viveport is heading to Park City, Utah during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to exhibit at “VR on the Mountain,” a virtual reality hub for festival attendees taking place January 20-22. The Viveport exhibit is part of HTC Vive’s sponsorship of “VR on the Mountain” during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. “VR

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Sundance Film Festival is an integral snow-covered kickoff to awards season in Hollywood – and their New Frontier program keeps getting hotter and hotter, and this year the common consensus was: VR is only going to get bigger.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

While we may be a ways off from having full length virtual reality or 360-degree feature films and even further than that from having them debut in movie theaters in some way, that isn’t stopping big names from getting behind the formats. Tagged with: animation , Elizabeth Banks , feature , film , hunger games , VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2018

The Sundance Film Festival just kicked off in Park City, Utah, and Oculus announced in a blogpost they’re debuting five experiences at the New Frontier section of Sundance—all of which they helped bring to life. Sundance’s New Frontier hosts a curated selection of works realized in the mediums of VR, AR, MR and AI.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2017

2017 Sundance Film Festival kicks of this week and it won’t be without VR. It’s that time of the year again when art and technology converge on Park City, Utah for over a week of VR and immersive storytelling — along with some feature films too.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

” Marvel’s upcoming glut of films slated for 2019 include Captain Marvel , Spider-Man: Far from Home , and a still untitled Avengers film. Disney is also releasing Frozen 2 this November. To boot, the company’s facilities can accommodate up to four users at a time, making for an ideal group outing.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival kicks off tomorrow in Utah and, after skipping out CES, it marks the first big event of the year for Oculus. Facebook’s VR company has traditionally made a big splash at the prestigious event, which celebrates independent film making.

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VRScout

JULY 3, 2016

But would this temporary New York City version be just a cheesy-knockoff of the real facility in Utah? Not just film, but hit television shows, graphic novels, videogames and even original content. Just a lame marketing ploy to get people excited for the Ghostbusters reboot? The short-answer: Absolutely not.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. We started the year strong, receiving the Lumiere Technology Award in January, alongside companies like Disney and Microsoft. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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VRScout

JANUARY 19, 2017

As the Sundance Film Festival kicks off today in Park City, Utah, Jaunt has revealed the development of five new original scripted VR series — one of which is based on the 1992 cult classic feature, The Lawnmower Man. We are very excited to be working with Jaunt to create a VR realization of the film.”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

For this reason, many companies had to pivot away from making VR films, and this is a great pity. On the other side, it is very difficult for a VR movie to become profitable , because the COVID killed many festivals (or reduced their importance) and consumers are more interested in buying VR games than VR movies. Learn more.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

More recently, I had the opportunity to try the Ghostbusters experience at the VOID in Utah. For example, the difference in the quality and diversity of content shown at the 2017 New Frontier portion of the Sundance Film Festival (which has become a leading showcase for VR content) over what was on display in 2016 was mind blowing.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

Not only does the book’s action mostly take place in a virtual reality world, but Steven Spielberg has been working on a film adaptation that we should expect in spring of next year. PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS IN UTAH USE VR FOR TRAINING. If you haven’t yet read Ernest Cline’s futuristic thriller novel Ready Player One , get on board.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

In the doc, Dobrik notes that a vlog he's filming is "not funny, unless someone gets hurt.” Dobrik is illegally operating an excavator on a shallow lake in Utah. Safety and consent seem to come second to getting the shot, if they're considered at all.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

I just found this out about him: he’s a composer as well, for films. Jon: Yeah, education is just– I mean, we had an opportunity to do something with a nonprofit this year, here in Utah for the Transcontinental Railroad. I’ll pop down to Utah and we’ll have dinner. Jon is the CEO and founder of Seek.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

I just found this out about him: he’s a composer as well, for films. Jon: Yeah, education is just– I mean, we had an opportunity to do something with a nonprofit this year, here in Utah for the Transcontinental Railroad. I’ll pop down to Utah and we’ll have dinner. Jon is the CEO and founder of Seek.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

I just found this out about him: he's a composer as well, for films. Jon: Yeah, education is just-- I mean, we had an opportunity to do something with a nonprofit this year, here in Utah for the Transcontinental Railroad. And kids all over the state of Utah were able to bring history back to life and experience this in a way.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

I just found this out about him: he’s a composer as well, for films. Jon: Yeah, education is just– I mean, we had an opportunity to do something with a nonprofit this year, here in Utah for the Transcontinental Railroad. I’ll pop down to Utah and we’ll have dinner. Jon is the CEO and founder of Seek.

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