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

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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.

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‘YouTube VR’ Finally Comes to PC, Bringing the Platform’s 360 Videos to Vive, Rift, and Windows VR

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It’s been a long while coming, but Google has finally launched a YouTube VR app on PC. Google expects YouTube VR to remain in Early Access through 2018 as they continue to develop it based on feedback. Image courtesy Google. Image courtesy Google. It took a while, but YouTube VR on PC was largely inevitable.

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MLB Expands VR Content With Original 360 Video Series

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Dive deeper into the lives of baseball’s biggest up-and-comers in the new “On the Verge” 360° series. The association has already partnered with Google to create the MLB At Bat VR experience for the Daydream platform earlier this year, as well as the MLB Homerun Derby VR game. Premium info or sign up for a plan. No problem!

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VLC Media Player Enables 360 Videos And Photos

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One major exception to this used to be 360 videos and images, but now that restriction is becoming a thing of the past. Last week, VLC revealed that it is now 360 enabled for both images and videos. VLC 360 was created through a partnership between VideoLan and the hardware company Giroptic.

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Google Bringing WebVR 1.1 To Daydream in January

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As reported by Road to VR , Google recently confirmed that the latest iteration of the framework, WebVR 1.1, Speaking at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality last month, Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google stated that a beta version should launch in December 2016 followed by a stable launch in January 2017. .

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Google Has Shipped 10M Cardboard VR Viewers; New Daydream Content

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There have been over 160 million downloads of Cardboard apps worldwide. Google is celebrating some new milestones this week with an announcement at Mobile World Congress that more than 10 million Cardboard viewers have shipped worldwide. In addition, 30 of those Cardboard apps have already seen more than 1 million downloads.

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Google Pays Homage to Film Pioneer Georges Méliès in VR Short ‘Back to the Moon’

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Google is celebrating the life and artistry of French film pioneer Georges Méliès today with a charming VR short that commemorates his iconic silent films including the groundbreaking A Trip to the Moon (1902). The short was produced by Nexus Studios and co-directed by Fx Goby and Google Doodles’ Hélène Leroux.

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