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Oculus Launches VR For Good in High Schools

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There are creators like RYOT connecting supporters directly to a purpose in VR with their Pencils of Promise experience and Vrse transporting us into a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan through Clouds Over Sidra. Students reviewing their 360 video footage. The first videos will be unveiled at Sundance 2017.

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Top 8 Media Using 360° Videos for Immersive News Stories

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Immersive media is a collective term that incorporates 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and volumetric capture (includes both CGI and 3-D scanning). The Times’ arrangement with Samsung will wrap up at the end of 2017, and the Times will continue to produce 360-degree videos on a smaller scale after.

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At 40 Minutes, ‘Miyubi’ is Felix & Paul’s Longest VR Film Yet – Available Today

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Felix & Paul Studios, among the top VR video production companies out there, today launch their longest film to date on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR. Felix & Studios have set an important visual bar in Miyubi , one that we’d love to see achieved by all other VR video content.

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NBA and Oculus Team Up For One Stellar Gear VR Experience

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Follow My Lead: The Story of the 2016 NBA Finals is narrated by actor Michael B Jordan and features the two teams going head to head in the NBA Finals back in June. If you don’t have access to a Gear VR, you can view the 360 video experience on the NBA’s Facebook page.

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Catch these CONAN360° LIVE Pre-Shows from Comic-Con

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Each CONAN360° LIVE Pre-Show is a one-hour episode building up to “Conan at Comic-Con,” and will include behind-the-scenes footage of some of the Team Coco Comic-Con skits, interviews with writers, pre-recorded VR content, and other CONAN favorites like Jordan Schlansky, Sona Movsesian, Bill Tull, and even, Conan O’Brien himself.

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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2019 Line-Up

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Users can be captured in dimensionalized video, placed into one of several “walk around” environments and automatically create a volumetric VR experience that can be viewed on any device and shared online. Periodically, this system will interject one of 48 cinematic interludes revealing different facets of life in this decaying arcology.

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Sundance Film Festival to Feature 18 VR & AR Experiences Next Month

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Key Collaborators : Joey Verbeke, Jordan Goldfarb, Ben Purdy, Peter Rubin, Eric Adrian Marshall. Users can be captured in dimensionalized video, placed into one of several “walk around” environments and automatically create a volumetric VR experience that can be viewed on any device and shared online. RocketMan 360.

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