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Facebook Adds 4K 360 Video Streaming Support

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Facebook announced a slew of new updates to its 360 live platform today, stepping up the features available to both creators and viewers. Since bringing live 360 video to pages and profiles back in March , we’ve seen a few VR videos pop up in our feed, but were always unsatisfied with the resolution. New Cameras.

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Native 360 Video Capture Comes to First Oculus Rift Game

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That’s why the company famous for allowing others to share their lives one post at a time is now bringing that same accessibility to the Oculus Rift. However the release of this update to Dead and Buried marks the first implementation of a native 360° image and video capture feature. Romero (RIP).

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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. The similarly named Oculus Studios, the company’s publishing house, is still active however. ‘The People’s House’ for Rift.

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Oculus’ New 360 Capture SDK Lets You Create and Share In-Game 360 Videos and Photos

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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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Valve Launches 360 Video Player For High-End PC’s

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Steam VR expands its services with native 360-degree video support. . If you’re fortunate enough to own an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift VR headset, odds are you’ve checked out Steam. Now Valve is dipping their toes into VR video with its own custom 360 video player.

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Facebook Update Adds 4K 360 Video Streaming Support to VR Headsets and More

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Facebook today announced new updates coming to their 360 streaming service including live 4k streaming support to VR headsets, image stabilization and a number of features that puts VR-ready 360 video more in line with the company’s standard streaming video service. image courtesy Samsung.

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VLC Media Player Now Supports 360° Video

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The popular open source media player that practically plays any video format on any platform has now added support for 360° videos. The latest support comes to its desktop versions with a plan to rollout 360° support to its mobile apps in the near future as well. VR headset support coming in 2017. PHOTO mode.

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