The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2016

Samsung just opened their own version of an immersive theme park for music fans attending Lisbon’s Rock in Rio festival, one of the largest music festivals in the world. In what Samsung is calling the Galaxy Adventure Park, experiences include a Gear 360 Sky Diving Selfie station and Gear VR Volcano Bungee simulator.

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VRScout

JULY 7, 2021

Over the next three days, you can tune in to conversations ranging from holographic filmmaking and volumetric video storytelling to digital humans and the impact of synthetic media on content creation. Cannes Next with Samsung Next | Using Synthetic Media to Overcome Barriers to Content Creation | Thursday, July 8th (10 GMT + 2 / 1AM PT).

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VRScout

AUGUST 28, 2017

Catch some of the best performances at the festival with these killer 360° videos. You can of course relive the magic of those incredible couple of days by checking out standard 2D video, or you could step it up and immerse yourself with a series of 360° VR music performances. Check out all of the 360-degree performances for free here.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2016

Remember back in May when Samsung teased us with a video of their limited Batman edition Galaxy S7 and Gear VR? At the time, Samsung announced that they would begin taking pre-orders for the Injustice Edition bundle if you lived in select countries like China, Singapore, Korea, Latin America, Malaysia and Russia.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

These three developers created a virtual Netflix video rental store and we just had flash backs. Some of you, maybe not all of you, may remember a time in the 90’s when you had to walk into a video rental store to pick out the night’s entertainment with friends. Once your done, just toss the tape on the floor and move along.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 10, 2022

Save $80: If the latest shiny toy from Apple is too much for your budget, consider an upgrade to the brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 128GB tablet for just $249.99 inch model that's perfect for family entertainment. The latest Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 provides more than enough power at a considerably lower price. Credit: Samsung.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg met with LG CEO William Cho and the president of LG's Home Entertainment division Park Hyoung-sei at LG's headquarters in Seoul to finalize the details of the partnership. Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

NextVR , a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, have finally launched their app for the Vive via Viveport after being available for several years on other platforms. The app is also soon to launch on the Oculus Rift. Image courtesy NextVR. 6DOF content is also expected this year.

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Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2023

Prior to the reveal of the headset, it was an open question whether the company would entertain the idea of XR experiences through the browser, and even more so if the company would adopt the relatively new WebXR standard. Image courtesy WebKit The goal is to make embedding 3D models into web pages as easy as embedding photos or videos.

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Upload VR

APRIL 22, 2024

A line of headsets for "productivity, learning, and entertainment" from Lenovo. A headset "fully focused on immersive entertainment like watching movies and videos with the highest resolution OLED screens." A headset "fully optimized for gaming with support for all kinds of different peripherals and haptics."

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Samsung Display has begun developing its LED on silicon (LEDoS) technologies for an expanding number of augmented reality (AR) devices. The Apple Vision Pro currently uses Samsung’s next-generation microdisplay technology. He added that Samsung Display has developed LEDoS LEDs less than five to ten micrometres (μm).

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VRScout

JANUARY 27, 2022

The K-pop industry is so massive, the country actually relies upon it as one of its primary sources of gross national income next to Samsung. Further, South Korea’s entertainment industry has embraced virtual concerts, and is developing a K-pop metaverse. billion into digital technologies by the year 2025; 9% ($2.2

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

Until today, I believed that Meta was in a very difficult position this year, because on one side the launch of the Apple Vision Pro put Meta’s dominant position in the market at risk; and on the other side, Google re-entering the field with an Android XR operating system and Samsung as its partner, was a real threat, as well.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

NextVR , a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, has debuted its latest broadcast technology this week at CES 2018. Attitudes toward 360 video content among high-end VR users are generally quite bad. Attitudes toward 360 video content among high-end VR users are generally quite bad.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 26, 2017

SLIVER.tv, the leading esports 360º virtual reality entertainment platform, announced the close of a $9.8 million to date, the Series A round was also participated by SLIVER.tv’s existing seed investors, including DCM, Sierra Ventures, The VR Fund, Samsung Next Fund and Sony Innovation Fund. With total funding of $17.5

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Slashgear

APRIL 25, 2018

A new wave of standalone VR headsets are coming but long before these, there was Samsung’s Gear VR. Powered by Oculus, the Samsung-specific platform has seemingly languished by the wayside, filled with nothing more than what can probably be best described as tech demos.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 12, 2017

FOX partnered with Samsung to launch what has to be one of the biggest and most lavishly produced 360 videos yet seen on the latter’s Samsung VR service this week. Set nine months before the first episode, the 360-degree video shows that mission in action. Tagged with: 24: Legacy , action , fox , samsung , tv.

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Slashgear

JULY 24, 2019

While its application in other industries have yet to be realized, it continues to grow, albeit slowly, in its native entertainment market. Virtual reality news has more or less quieted down over the past months but that doesn’t mean it’s far from gone.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2023

million views on Meta Quest TV—an astounding new level of engagement in the XR entertainment space. Hosting the three-part series on Meta Quest TV has also allowed younger generations to receive access to spatial entertainment, providing a massive use case for the Meta Quest 3 , which debuted in late September.

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2023

The studio makes independent projects but also works with an impressive list of partners including Vodafone, Samsung, and Snapchat. See Also: Flex NBA: The AR-Enabled Basketball-Themed TCG That’s So Much More “My background is in cinema, but I’ve been working in games,” Folhadela said in a video call with ARPost. “My

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation—which runs theme park properties across the americas—and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. The video heading this article gives an idea of what the experience is meant to be. SEE ALSO Samsung's Nick DiCarlo on VR Roller Coasters at Six Flags.

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Digital Trends

JULY 11, 2022

In this three-part video series, Digital Trends will highlight the best Samsung TVs and audio equipment that take these rooms to the next level, featuring our host and home entertainment expert, Caleb Denison.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2018

To compliment the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce Distorted Reality , a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOS. Image Credit: Minds Eye Entertainment.

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Slashgear

AUGUST 9, 2016

Samsung hasn't just made a bet on virtual reality being the future of entertainment, with the Gear 360 camera it wants VR content creation to be accessible to the masses, too.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 9, 2022

The 2023 release from Tindalos Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment looks like a top-down action game, which is to say you're controlling characters and seeing the action unfold from a slightly canted bird's-eye view. SEE ALSO: Xbox is coming to Samsung smart TVs, no console required.

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Slashgear

JUNE 30, 2016

If there were still any doubt that virtual reality is the next big thing in computing and entertainment, this should probably banish those. For the first time ever, Olympics, which will be held this year in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, will be available via VR, though not in live coverage.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props. Panasonic AR windshield (Auganix) Samsung vision of futuristic cars (Youtube).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 2, 2017

360-degree photos and videos are growing in their popularity and some devs are creating social apps centered on that type of media, but companies are using it for presentations as well. LiveSYNC is a tool for use reminiscent of the latter, allowing presenters to sync up video to any number of devices.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2024

Disney Research, a group the firm uses to develop innovative emerging technologies, highlighted the device in a YouTube video this weekend. Since 2022, Disney worked on various XR initiatives to help build start-ups and to assist with the firm’s own R&D into Disney-branded XR entertainment services.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Games, as one of the prime sources of entertainment, could be more prominent by becoming more interactive and immersive. Technologies like VR are being used widely to make games distinctive and entertaining so that both avid and casual gamers can enjoy their favorite games irrespective of time and place. Interactive Playing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

More info (Quest 3 coming in 2023) More info (New layoffs planned at Meta) Other relevant news (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) New information on PSVR 2 is unveiled Sony Interactive Entertainment is keeping growing the hype for the upcoming launch of the PSVR 2. But now some data about it is starting to be found.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

In a bid to make VR content more social, Samsung brought its Hypercube installation to Reading Festival. Those long queues were efficiently managed by a friendly team in Samsung t-shirts, who briefed everyone as they waited for their turn. This being a typical British summer day (i.e.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Discovery and Google today announced the launch of a new 38-episode VR video series called Discovery TRVLR, a product of both Discovery and Google’s internal VR teams. The first 6 episodes is slated to launch on Friday, November 3. Discovery TRVLR comes exclusively to YouTube and DiscoveryVR.com, and on the Discovery VR app.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

NextVR, a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, has finally launched their app on SteamVR after several months of listing it as “coming soon.” Now with the app’s launch on SteamVR this week , the immersive video platform is available on every major VR platform and headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

More info (CREAL announcing its new lightfield innovation) More info (Video showing the technology in action) Samsung acquires eMagin Samsung has just acquired eMagin, an American manufacturer of OLED microdisplays for AR/VR headsets, for $218M.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2: What’s New? In addition to the 4.3K resolution and GPU improvements.

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