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Apple Embraces VR: Every Virtual Reality Announcement From Today’s WWDC Keynote

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At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support.

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HBO’s Westworld Makes Virtual Reality Debut

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You may never come back from this virtual ride. Virtual reality was the first thing that came to mind after seeing the mysterious trailer for HBO’s Westworld back in June. The experience blends traditional CG content, 360 live action video, and real world object interaction into a pretty ambitious piece.

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How to record 360 videos of your VR experiences

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But since we are in virtual reality, that happens all around us, it would be cool if there was a way to perform some recording also in 360° , to be able to re-live our experience from inside how many times we want, even after we had done that. How can you shoot 360 videos of your fantastic moments in VR?

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GMA Takes Us Swimming With Sharks Live in 360°

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This is not the first time GMA has broadcasted live in 360° video. Back on February 23, 2016, GMA anchor, Amy Robach did a live 360° broadcast from the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, bringing viewers on a spectacular safari during The Great Migration. WATCH: UNREAL! Ginger_Zee , swimming with sharks.

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Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More

Road to VR

Two of the latest listings suggest the company is exploring VR video codecs and file formats. The former listing seeks a candidate with “direct experience with implementing and/or designing media file formats,” as well as “experience with VR and 360 video.”

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Apple Positions New iMac Pro for VR Development, Available Starting Thursday

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Apple is positioning the new iMac Pro—available this Thursday starting at a cool $5,000—as an ideal machine for VR content creators (both 360 video and real-time). Virtual reality gets real. Apple earlier this year also said that it planned to update Final Cut Pro X to support 360 degree video editing.

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‘Kingdom City Drowning’ Looks Like VR’s Very Own ‘Sin City’

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This is a new cinematic VR series built in Unreal Engine 4 from phoenixmirror. Still, when I first heard the term “cinematic virtual reality”, I assumed this would be a 360 video. The answer might well be Kingdom City Drowning. It’s a pleasant surprise to find out it isn’t.

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