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Discovery and Google Announce VR Travel Series ‘Discovery TRVLR’, First of 38 Episodes to Arrive in November

Road to VR

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. Episodes filmed in Antarctica were directed by Barry Pousman and produced by Yes Please Thank You.

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Mary Matheson speaks about storytelling in VR and the importance of 360 movies

The Ghost Howls

I was a journalist, so I was always trying to tell stories from other countries and bring them over to Europe or the United States to the audiences there. When you go and watch a film, often you’re there. I write or make a film about what I think’s happening. You don’t just fly in and take some shots.

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Explore All Seven Continents in VR With Discovery’s ‘TRVLR’

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Google and Discovery expand the Discovery VR app with new VR travel series. Over the course of 38 episodes spread throughout seven chapters, you will travel throughout North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and Antarctica in the first virtual reality series to cover all seven continents.

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YouTube VR Creator Lab is Coming to London

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YouTube’s 3-month workshop heads to Europe for the first time. not tied to a larger production company or agency with more than 15 employees) who has preferably had previous work screened at a film or interactive media festival. Earlier this year we introduced the VR180 workshop in LA, exposing talented creatives to the VR180 format.

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Adidas Unveils Vertical Reality Experience: Acrophobics Need Not Apply

VRScout

The project team also partnered with Google to repurpose an 8k resolution stereoscopic rig—called Google Jump—to film the expansive landscape in detailed 360 degrees. 16- 19, with more experiences in Western Europe soon to be announced. It will be showcased at the Kendal Mountain Festival Nov.

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Experience The 1943 Berlin Blitz In VR

VRScout

The BBC’s 1943 Berlin Blitz experience, first previewed for selected audiences at the Venice Film Festival where it was very well received, is now available for the general public to download. “We It will also soon be available to watch in 360 on Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. People are finding it profoundly moving.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

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More info (Laval Virtual canceled) More info (XR Europe canceled) More info (E3 canceled) More info (Tribeca canceled). This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you.