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Meta, NBA Open 180-Degree Live VR Sports on Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The new sports metaverse will leverage the Meta Quest 3’s groundbreaking passthrough feature and allow users to switch between 180-degree film and 2D matches via a virtual screen. Also, in a world-first immersive experience, XR firm MeetKai partnered with the Charlotte Hornets to open the latter’s NBA virtual store.

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SXSW 2023: Highlights and XR Experiences That Push the Boundaries of Storytelling, Music, and Technology

ARPost

SXSW 2023 also offered a range of compelling conference sessions across 15 tracks, including interactive tracks exploring science, technology, culture, government, and more; film tracks covering both the creative and business elements of film and TV production; and music tracks featuring content on the making, marketing, impact, and future of music.

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Shudder's 'The Seed' review: A gory invasion horror that misses the mark

Mashable VR

The Seed starts out with three friends — confident social media influencer Deidre (Lucy Martin), reserved and studious Charlotte (Chelsea Edge), and somewhere-in-between-the-two Heather (Sophie Vavasseur) — driving off to Heather's father's house in the Mojave for the weekend. It's frustrating. So is The Seed all bad? Not at all.

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14 of the best time travel movies you can watch right now

Mashable VR

Despite this, there are plenty of films that have got it right — from the sacred timeline bending of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Christopher Nolan's wormhole odyssey — and we've driven a Delorean time machine back through recent decades to track them down for you. and on Shudder in the UK. Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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Cruella Is Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss in Movie Form

GizModo VR

In Cruella , you can plainly see that while some fans might not be too keen on the idea, Disney’s confident that new films meant to drastically reframe the origins of classic villains who stalk princesses and kill dogs are a key part of the future. Much like its central character, Cruella knows exactly what it is and… Read more.

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Last Words Looks Kind of Like a Post-Apocalyptic Cinema Paradiso

GizModo VR

There are people who think it’s silly to dedicate your life to movies. Movies are frivolous. Unimportant. To that, writer director Jonathan Nossiter says, those might be your famous Last Words. Read more.

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Dune Series SDCC 2021 Panel Gives Us More of the Atreides Family Saga

GizModo VR

I read Frank Herbert’s Dune as a teenager and it ran through my imagination like no other book before it. It’s only right that I covered the Dune book and comic panel for San Diego Comic-Con @ Home. Read more.

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