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These Olympic Hopefuls Dig In For Their Shot at Rio 2016

VRScout

Samsung is bringing fans closer to the Olympic Games with this immersive Beach Volleyball VR film. Samsung, who is an official worldwide Olympic partner, is showing us one of these stories through their latest 360° film titled “Vanuatu Dreams” that lets you experience beach volleyball like never before.

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Nokia Partners with Lucasfilm to Produce ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ VR Content

Road to VR

The Ozo camera is Nokia’s bold foray into virtual reality , targeting the professional market with one of the most complete, high-quality 360 camera solutions currently available, featuring eight synchronised, 2K x 2K sensors capable of 360 degree stereoscopic video and eight microphones for spatial audio recording.

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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

VRScout

Although there are a number of tools and strategies that can help drive awareness, there are few more effective than VR to help shine a light on important issues. When it comes to social change, awareness is the first step on a long journey to impact the causes and problems that we care about.

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Digital Domain’s New 360 Camera to Capture 250 Hours of Major Sports Footage

Road to VR

Digital Domain is to capture some 250 hours of immersive 360 video at a major sporting event in Rio this year using a new bespoke camera of their own design. Visual Effects house Digital Domain have been a familiar name to film buffs and VFX fans since the early 90s, and have produced effects work for movies everyone will recognise.

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Welcome to XR for Business with Alan Smithson

XR for Business Podcast

From marketing and sales to logistics and training to design and remote collaboration, you will learn how the world’s largest organizations are implementing an XR For Business strategy and why you should too. We filmed Niagara Falls, Pride, Groove Cruise, and the Queen’s Plate in 360° video.

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Is VR the Future of News?

Tech Trends VR

Viewers will have enjoyed 360 news pieces from the BBC before, but never like this. The film is in full immersive VR, is stereoscopic and features fully spatialised audio. A special 360° version of the films will be available to view to watch through the BBC News website and on Facebook.

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Welcome to XR for Business with Alan Smithson

XR for Business Podcast

From marketing and sales to logistics and training to design and remote collaboration, you will learn how the world’s largest organizations are implementing an XR For Business strategy and why you should too. We filmed Niagara Falls, Pride, Groove Cruise, and the Queen’s Plate in 360° video.