VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Over past decade, Riot Games, the team behind the insanely popular multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends , has evolved from a simple video game developer and esports tournament organizer into a full-fledged, multimedia production company. Image Credit: League of Legends.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 27, 2021

The day that Telegram gets into group video calling has finally arrived. In case you forgot, that’s OK. It has been more than a year since the company announced it was working on the feature. But hey, better late than never, right? Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”. Zuckerberg said last week that he wants in 5 years Facebook to become a “metaverse company” and this week he started taking action in this sense: he has created a group in the company focused on “building the metaverse”. (Image by Facebook).

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2020

Running exactly 1 minute 30 seconds, the trailer shows two players swinging throughout lush jungle environments, cliff diving into crystal clear waters, banging their chests to activate mystical objects, and battling groups of tough-looking enemies using everything from bows and axes to their bare fists. Features The Mighty Axe.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Up and coming Los Angeles-based rock group Palaye Royale has managed to grow a substantial social media following, and now the group is looking to grow its fan base through the power of augmented reality.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

Amazon today announced the launch of Prime Video VR on Oculus Quest, Go, and Gear VR. In addition to bringing the entire Prime Video catalog onto the headsets, Amazon is also for the first time adding VR content to its Prime Video library. Amazon is also committing to bringing VR content to Prime Video VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2018

This week at NAB Show in Las Vegas, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the international committee behind the titular image compression standard, unveiled JPEG XS, a new format that is touted as a lower energy compression solution that provides higher quality images at low latency over broadband networks such as 5G.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2017

Inception’s ambitions to become the ‘Netflix of VR’ have just received a major boost, with the Tel Aviv-based company closing a $15 million Series A funding round led by media and broadcast giant RTL Group. That’s why it is only natural to explore ways of augmenting our total video universe with this new medium.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 7, 2022

Chinese firm Sinobo Group recently revealed it had launched a metaverse platform in a bid to chart its course across the digital landscape, the company announced at an event on Tuesday. Sinobo Group chairman Zhou Jinhui said in a statement, “[The] Metaverse is not only a concept.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. Above: The Future Group’s Jens Petter Hoili (left) and Bård Anders Kasin. Image Credit: The Future Group. Image Credit: The Future Group.

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Voices of VR

AUGUST 16, 2023

Over The Rainbow is the second episode of a 360 video trilogy by Craig Quintero (see my interview about All That Remains from Venice 2022). Quintero is the artistic director of Riverbed Theatre, a Taipei-based performance group that has been doing 1-on-1 experimental theatre shows.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 6, 2022

A pro-Biden group has a big plan for pushing the president's agenda: TikTok. The nonprofit group Building Back Together launched its account on Wednesday, in an effort to push President Joe Biden's agenda to young people ahead of the 2022 midterm election. The group's account, @buildingbacktogether , has posted just once thus far.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2018

Typical VR videos are displayed in full 360 degrees, but rendering all of that footage can be overly taxing on the hardware creating the experience (especially for smartphones). Soon after the live stream he and his team released a full 360° video to promote his farewell tour as well. It’s the end of an era people.

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Digital Trends

JULY 13, 2021

Highlights include tab groups and Video Picture in Picture. Microsoft is currently working on a few features that will be added to Edge in the near future.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

nDreams, the veteran VR studio, today announced it was acquired by video gaming group Aonic for $110 million. The Farnborough, UK-based nDreams has changed a fair bit since its founding in 2006.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A hotel worker says he found a Quest Pro sample unit and shared an unboxing video on Facebook. Earlier today Ramiro Cardenas posted images in the ‘Oculus Quest 2’ Facebook group appearing to show Quest Pro packaging labelled ‘NOT FOR RESALE – ENGINEERING SAMPLE’ Cardenas claimed the boxes were left in a hotel.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2017

The marriages were performed privately (besides the one shown in the video above) and lasted around 5 minutes per wedding—of course sealed with a virtual kiss which was simulated by an attendant with a pair of rubber lips on a stick. Either way, we’re not here to judge.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 24, 2018

Have you ever seen pictures or videos of balloons being let go into the sky and randomly floating away in all directions? Specifically, we'll go over how we can release a group of virtual balloons and have them float in random directions into the sky using "world tracking" and SceneKit physics and animations. Well, guess what?

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Timothy Wilks, a 20-year-old YouTuber, was shot and killed in Nashville on Friday night while trying to film a robbery “prank” video. Wilks and at least one friend reportedly approached a group of people in the parking lot of Urban Air, a trampoline business, while holding butcher knives, according to the Nashville … Read more.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 8, 2018

Rolling out to users on the Messenger app for iOS and Android starting Wednesday, multiplayer video chat AR games now enable up to six users to play in real time. By comparison, Snappables requires users to record their experience and send it to others to take their turn, though Snapchat does include AR experiences in group video chats.

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VRScout

JUNE 1, 2017

To test the film’s effectiveness in creating empathetic responses, Planned Parenthood conducted studies on two groups with different political leanings and geographical settings. The post Planned Parenthood’s Eye-Opening VR Video Simulates Clinic Harassment appeared first on VRScout. The verdict? The VR experience was a success.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2018

Now the studio is dipping its toes into the world of VR music videos with a new 360 project that matches intense visuals with an equally intense soundtrack. An intense dogfight between a group of enemy spaceships? The post ‘Icarus Six Sixty Six’ VR Music Video Is A Heavy Metal Masterpiece appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2017

With a new technique, Adobe wants to turn normal monoscopic 360-degree video into a more immersive 3D experience, complete with a level of depth information that promises to give the user the ability to shift their physical vantage point in a way currently only possible with special volumetric cameras—and all with your off-the-shelf 360 camera rig.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Never fear, for Chinese industry group the Netcasting Services Association has posted a helpful list of 100 topics that should never be broached in short videos on apps like Douyin. Worried about crossing the line while posting in China? Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This week, the Pentagon announced the formation of the new organization called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group,(AOIMSG) tasked with investigating reports of UFOs (or as the Pentagon prefers to call them, UAPs) in… Read more. The Department of Defense isn’t ready to give up on UFOs just yet.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 16, 2017

The Virtual Content Group (VCG) is a new team composed of French, German, and Australian firms specializing in the experiences born of this technology, and they’re gearing up for expansion after taking home a couple Lumiere awards from the VR Society. The group is looking to raise investment.

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VRScout

JUNE 23, 2016

With Facebook and YouTube fully supporting 360° video on their platforms and consumer 360° cameras making their way into the hands of creators around the world, it comes as no surprise that music artists are experimenting with VR to create 360° music videos of their own. A few you may have already seen, but some maybe not.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 12, 2022

Apple's iMovie on iOS and iPadOS is typically the first software Apple users encounter when they need to stitch a few video clips together. which launched on Tuesday for iPadOS and iOS , Apple is making it a lot easier to create videos with two new major features: Storyboards and Magic Movie. With iMovie 3.0, Credit: Apple.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 22, 2018

On Wednesday, the company unveiled a behind the scenes video of how the ethereal music-meets-AR app Tónandi was produced in collaboration with Icelandic music group Sigur Rós.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Earlier today, Meta (formerly Facebook) posted a cryptic video on YouTube teasing Questy’s, an old-school arcade restaurant that will serve as the setting for an upcoming TV spot that will air on Sunday, February 13th during the Super Bowl. As for what this digital dining establishment will consist of, well, that remains to be seen.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Fitting for Gorillaz, who are ‘virtual band’ consisting of four fictional characters, the group’s highly anticipated fifth studio album (and first since 2011), ‘Humanz’, saw the release of its first track (Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)) as part of an impressive 360 music video.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 25, 2020

The Nest Hub Max can now make group calls up to 32 people.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2023

A group of compassionate VR developers came together for an incredible cause. ” As shown in the video provided, Zainab’s Mermaid World features everything from interactive beach balls to underwater treasure. With only 2 weeks left on land, she found her forever fins in the sea.

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ARPost

AUGUST 2, 2022

Foretell Reality, one of more than a dozen subsidiaries of The Glimpse Group, provides a collaborative space where therapy attendees can interact and support one another from the comfort of their own homes. The Glimpse Group delivers a number of solutions across different sectors – healthcare, education, marketing, and more.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 23, 2022

Instagram is testing new methods for age verification, including having the user upload a video selfie and then letting an AI judge their age. The most interesting way to do this, however, is to upload a video selfie. Instagram will then hand over the video to its partner, Yoti, a company that uses AI to verify the user's age.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2017

We’re all waiting for the day when you can put on a singular, tether-free headset and experience all the ‘R’s that VR/AR/MR have to offer—and NormalVR , a “small but focused” group of passionate immersive media creators just gave us a peek into what’s possible when you mash it all together.

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Mashable VR

JULY 21, 2022

On Thursday, TikTok announced it will begin rolling out a feature update that adds auto-generated closed captions as well as new translation tools for "select videos." Users will no longer have to rely on creators to turn on auto-captions for their videos as the latest accessibility update enables users to turn on auto-captions themselves.

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