article thumbnail

Leap Of Faith: Behind The Making Of The ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie VR Experience

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Matthew Lewis, CEO and founder of Practical Magic, told UploadVR from the outset the goal was raising the visual quality bar for VR videos. While the Spanish Inquisition scene in the big budget film was shot on location in Malta, the VR experience was shot in Los Angeles. The Animus from the original Assassin’s Creed video game.

article thumbnail

The ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie Is Getting a Cinematic VR Experience

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Hollywood is knee-deep in their latest attempts to revitalize movie adaptations of video game properties. have done to irreparably damage the concept of a movie based on a video game. We’re capturing and re-creating the world from the film in really high quality, using massive textures [and] complex geometry.

Malta 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Meta makes fundraising easier ahead of Earth Day

Mashable VR

The tech monolith already has nonprofit fundraising options for Facebook and Instagram that can be used directly on a user's feed, on Instagram Stories, and through Instagram Live, but users can now fundraise directly in Instagram's short form video platform Reels. SEE ALSO: What does it mean to decolonize your donations?

article thumbnail

Stories You Might’ve Missed: JPEG XS, VR180 and more

VRWorld

This is a photo/video format made for use with VR headsets, allowing easy capture of photo and video at 180 degrees. What most people know as a JPEG is a compressed 2D image format, but JPEG XS is a video compression format made expressly for VR, lossless video and real-time gaming.

Malta 40
article thumbnail

Stories You Might’ve Missed: JPEG XS, VR180 and more

VRWorld

This is a photo/video format made for use with VR headsets, allowing easy capture of photo and video at 180 degrees. What most people know as a JPEG is a compressed 2D image format, but JPEG XS is a video compression format made expressly for VR, lossless video and real-time gaming.

Malta 40
article thumbnail

Watch: 17 Mins of ‘Arktika.1? Oculus Touch Gameplay

Road to VR

Their Malta studio has been dedicated to building a new made-for-VR title which was unveiled for the first time at Oculus Connect 3. One such title revealed at the event was Arktika.1 1 from developers 4A Games. You may know them from the hugely popular (and technically excellent) Metro series of first person shooter games.

Oculus 100
article thumbnail

‘MetaWorld’ Wants You to Buy Virtual Land for Real Money, and It’s Not Clear Why

Road to VR

For reference, MetaWorld is planning to cover an area about as large as the island of Malta. If you plan on donating to the IndieGoGo fund, please note that none of the work I produced for the MetaWorld you see in videos like the one above is what will be delivered. Buyer Beware.

Malta 205