article thumbnail

WiiT: From Social Media Group to Non-Profit for Gender Equality in XR

ARPost

From a social media group to a non-profit organization fighting for equal rights: this is the story of Women in Immersive Technologies (WiiT). This new organization founded by a group of women working in the extended reality field wants to promote gender equality in the industry. In May 2016, they created a Facebook group.

Groups 202
article thumbnail

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.

Filming 529
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How accurate is 'The Northman' to Viking history? Well, it’s a Robert Eggers film.

Mashable VR

Although his films blur the line between reality and magic, Eggers has become known for his intense attention to historic detail with films like The Witch , set on a Puritan family farm in 1630s, and The Lighthouse , set in an isolated lighthouse in the 1890s — both in New England. How to build a Viking world.

Filming 105
article thumbnail

Netflix launches walking tours so you can see where your favourite shows are made

Mashable VR

The tours, which are in partnership with SANDEMAN's New Europe Tours, sound like pretty much what you'd expect, with guides taking small groups to key filming locations and giving behind-the-scenes tidbits about the scenes that were shot there. Emily in Paris were all shot. Credit: Netflix. The good news?

Europe 93
article thumbnail

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

VRScout

But of course Discovery, being the endlessly ambitious group that they are, is now expanding their already flush catalog of immersive content with a new first-of-its-kind VR series. Since launching August 2015, the Discovery VR app has accumulated over four million downloads and 123 million organic views.

article thumbnail

The VR Society’s ‘On The Lot’ is Back—and Fully Augmented

VRScout

Last year, the inaugural VR On The Lot brought together major players from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Europe, and China for a two-day exploration of the intersection between entertainment and technology. thelotstudios #filming #hollywood #studio #weho #summer. Happy first day of summer from all of us at The Lot!

Unreal 287
article thumbnail

Oblong Industries raises $65 million for ‘Minority Report’-style.

AllThingsVR

Oblong is combining spatial, immersive, and gesture technologies, brought to you by John Underkoffler, who was the science advisor for the Tom Cruise film Minority Report. and Western Europe. John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries, was science advisor on Minority Report. Oblong already has collaboration tools available in the U.S.