Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video service, outlining that Jump will officially go offline on June 28th, 2019. The ability to upload video will be suspended on June 26th; the 27th is the cutoff date to back up whatever files you may have uploaded via the service.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

A new video today all but confirms that we’ll be seeing HoloLens 2 (or whatever the next iteration is called) at that event. At the end of the video, flashing text reads out BARCELONA 02 24 19, the same date of Microsoft’s upcoming press event at MWC 2019 later this month.

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VRScout

APRIL 4, 2017

You can now watch a 2D video version of Björk’s latest VR music experience. The Icelandic art-pop singer released the full version of the VR music video for Notget, off of her 2015 LP, Vulnicara , after releasing a teaser for the video last November.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

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. You can download Felix & Paul’s Emmy award-winning video on both Oculus Rift or Samsung Gear VR. ‘The People’s House’ for Rift.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

HypeVR may be poised to alter the 360 video landscape with their depth-mapped, volumetric video system that lets VR users move in, out and around the captured scene. HypeVR’s proprietary system uses 14 Red Dragon, 6k Video Cameras rig-mounted to capture a 360 degree field of view.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2019

There’s a few short VR experiences that just stick with you, and one of my favorites is the 2015-era VR music video Surge. Now, Netherlands-based synthwave producer Sheaf has created a real-time rendered VR music video for their debut EP that is definitely on my list.

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EON Reality

JANUARY 5, 2016

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and 360 Video are inspiring companies to create the ultimate immersive experience for users of the “Out of Home” market. Our CEO, Mats Johansson, spoke at the Digital Hollywood Summit 2015 to further explain the kinds of technology being offered today, especially in the field of education.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

Positional tracking is the dream for immersive video content, but it is a complex hardware and software challenge. The company haven’t provided details about their process, but 6DoF support has been on their road map for some time, having spoken about the use of light field technology for this purpose in 2015.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2022

Word is legendary video game developer and industry-darling Hideo Kojima might be working on his own VR game. Could Metal Gear Solid VR be on the way? This information lines up with a recent interview with Tokyo-based radio station J-Wave Radio during which Kojima shed some additional light on several upcoming projects.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

After dropping a teaser for her upcoming VR music video for the Vulnicura track “Family” last week , the artist is teasing us once again with a glimpse of the VR video for “Notget” off the same album. The “Notget” VR music video premiered Wednesday at a Björk digital exhibition at the Iceland Airwaves festival.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a while since we last wrote about Julius Horsthuis, a visual effects artist who authored a series of fractal 360 videos for VR which are simply mind-blowing—both now and back in the good ol’ days of the Oculus Rift DK2 when we first experienced them. Image courtesy Julius Horsthuis. Image courtesy Julius Horsthuis.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The music artist was early to jump on board the immersive medium, releasing a 360° music video experience early 2015 for “Stonemilker” from the album Vulnicura. Now Björk has released a teaser for her latest upcoming VR music video for the Vulnicura track “Family,” another step towards an entirely VR version of the album.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 16, 2017

YouTube offers thousands of hours of content for your VR headset with its 360 degree videos, but the massive amount of data these clips require means they often show up blurry. Tagged with: Daydream , google , vr video , Youtube. Google is working to fix that.

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VRScout

MAY 13, 2017

Experience the incredibly graphic birth of a Neomorph alien in this now available 360-degree video. Fox has experimented with virtual reality in the past ala a 360-degree experience promoting the 2015 film Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and a $9.99 VR experience for Scott’s film The Martian.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2017

House of Secrets , the Amsterdam-based studio behind acclaimed real-time VR music videos Surge (2015) and Apex (2017) is developing their first full VR game, a puzzle platformer titled KIN. SEE ALSO 'Surge' is a Real-time VR Music Video You Don't Want to Miss.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2020

Every Thursday at 8am PT, video game and software developer and publisher Epic Games offers players a new free game available via the Epic Games Store. * UPDATE [5/17/2020] – The Epic release of GTA V comes with a few issues in terms of VR compatibility, though there is a temporary workaround solution. More information available here.*.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2020

9to5Mac posits that the acquisition may center on NextVR’s patented video streaming technology. Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 24, 2022

Debates over whether or not video games can be considered art feel like a thing of the distant past. Then in 2015, Jones helped organize a Futures of Media Peabody award co-sponsored by Facebook , hoping it might serve as a beta for formalizing exactly the kind of award category it debuted today. all the way back in 2003.

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2020

billion in 2015; companies such as Google and Alibaba Group were among those that backed the startup, making their post-money valuation around roughly $3.7 Back in 2015, Magic Leap released a teaser video showcasing what owners of the Magic Leap One headset could expect out of the experience.

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2016

Advertisers and agencies will soon have another way to market their content through the use of bite sized 360-degree video on the increasingly popular application known as Snapchat. Sony created this initial video with the help of AvatarLabs , a Los Angeles based digital agency. What Snapchat will do next is entirely a mystery.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2024

While the studio says the game is set to be built exclusively for VR, digital strategy and licensing chief at Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Eugene Evans calls Resolution Games “an ideal partner to bring a new DUNGEONS & DRAGONS video game to life in VR and beyond,” which could possibly point to a non-VR release coming as well.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Today revealed at Oculus Connect, Lone Echo is a narrative-driven first-person game for Touch from Ready at Dawn , the same studio that brought you The Order: 1886 (2015), a number of mobile God of War games, Okami (2006), and Daxter (2006). We’ll be bringing you an in-depth hands-on as soon as we jump into the demo later today.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2016

Arjan van Meerten, the indie 3D artist and musician behind the widely acclaimed Surge VR music video, has confirmed Apex as his next project. See Also: ‘Surge’ is a Real-time VR Music Video You Don’t Want to Miss. See Also: ‘Moderat: Reminder’ is an Energetic VR Music Video set in a Beautiful Dystopia.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2016

Eva Hoerth is a VR design researcher & community organizer, and she enjoys recording videos of people as they’re immersed within a VR experience. She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap Motion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 20, 2017

A toolset from audio company Dysonics aims to streamline the process of building highly immersive audio for non-interactive projects like 360-degree videos. Rondo360 is meant more for the creators working with 360-degree videos. Audio/Video Sync. Universal Binaural Converter. Advanced Room Modeling.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 7, 2017

The first thought I had as this new Sansar video arrived in my inbox was how Linden Lab still seemed on track to deliver an accessible and very good looking product. No longer is VR limited to professional developers and engineers,” the narrator in the video promises. Tagged with: linden lab , Sansar.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 15, 2022

We’ve spent hours wading through every movie category on Amazon Prime Video, past rows of films everyone’s already seen, to build a list of the best and most underseen movies buried within the depths of Amazon Originals and the dozens of bad-action–thrillers-that-look-fake (please, stop making these!). Honeymoon (2014).

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VRGames

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

This is a VR video—a brand new kind of video clip that offers you a sense of depth in each path so you experience like you happen to be truly there. For entire influence, enjoy it in a … source.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 1, 2022

Whatever kind of science fiction you're seeking, Prime Video has the perfect pick for a movie night in. We've scoured the selection of Prime Video's sci-fi section to uncover celebrated classics, art house dazzlers, quirky adventures, and modern marvels. Here are the best science fiction movies on Amazon Prime Video streaming now: 1.

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AR Insider

APRIL 14, 2021

Unlike previous Snap glasses, which primarily focused on capturing video and photos, the new Spectacles could provide wearers with a true AR experience. Snapchat pioneered AR for social media in 2015, with the introduction of Lenses—which competitors were quick to copy —and has come to dominate social AR since.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2024

The headset’s HDR capability combined with micro OLED (which offers true blacks) really makes videos shine. But none of this would matter if it wasn’t easy to find and transfer high quality video content onto the headset.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Two VR video experiences Jurassic World: Apatosaurus (2015) and Jurassic World: Blue (2018) were previously released on Oculus headsets like Go and Gear VR. Jurassic World: Aftermath is a name we haven’t seen confirmed for VR previously, but Jurassic World itself is no stranger to VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2021

AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based company creating on-demand VR video, has raised $9.5 Founded in 2015, AmazeVR previously focused on building out its 360 video subscription service for VR headsets, which features a variety of content. million in funding to refocus its efforts to create virtual VR concerts.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2017

An HTC Vive phone has been spotted in a promotional video leaked ahead of a scheduled press conference on January 12th. This video may indicate HTC is ready to make that move, using its now established Vive brand. The post HTC Vive Mobile Phone Spotted in Promotional Video appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2017

While submerged, you can watch video reels of bottlenose dolphins swimming in their natural habitat. VR specialists Viemr had divers capable of holding their breath for up to 5-minutes record the footage during a 10-day shoot at the Red Sea in December 2015. ” You can watch a video from Dolphin Swim Club below.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Popular city-builder Cities: Skylines (2015) doesn’t offer native VR support, however the franchise is getting its first official made-for-VR game soon called Cities: VR, which will let you go hands-on as you take the reigns of your city from a new perspective.

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