Let me start by making a confession: I am not a Gamer. Despite the fact that I kinda suck at gaming, I’ve always found a bit of a guilty pleasure in watching others play games. Basically, I’m that friend that (very vocally) encourages you while you are kicking all the butts, pokes fun at you for…
Just over a month ago, we reported on how Lucasfilm’s ILMxLab had harnessed the power of Virtual Reality to create its Oscar-Nominated camera work behind the space battle above Scarif in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The video above shows a glimpse of the technique used, while the interview below provides a more in-depth explanation….
Lee Jae-Yong, the billionaire heir-apparent to South Korean electronics giant Samsung, has been sentenced to 5 years in Jail as part of the massive corruption scandal that shook the country and caused former South Korean President Park Geun-hye to be impeached. Jae-Yong head of the world’s biggest cellphone maker, having taken over in place of his…
Google used to keep most details about its self-driving car program under wraps. But in the last few months, the self-driving car team—now a separate subsidiary called Waymo—has been making a concerted effort to open up and share key details with high-profile media outlets. During an interview with Bloomberg back in May, Waymo unveiled key details of…
According to a post on his personal blog, Eugene Wei has left Facebook. After enjoying a few Executive roles at Hulu and Flipboard, Wei joined Fb back in 2015. The post suggests that he would have left in mid-July, roughly around a few weeks after the in-house cinematic VR production team, Oculus Story Studio, was…
This one’s a shocker. It was less than a week ago that the 360VR Community rejoiced at the $200 price drop of the Vive, and now THIS.We have been publishing great news about the HTC Vive, through its use in Corporate Training via its Enterprise sector, so this report hit us like a ton of…
Business Media Research & Intelligence group SuperData has released the sales figures from all the available virtual reality (VR) headsets on the market, and it comes with no surprise that Samsung Gear VR has taken a lead in Q1 of 2017, with 782,000 headsets sold. The firm also projects Samsung will have sold a total of 6.7…
The National Association of Broadcasters Show was held from April 22 to 27 in beautiful Las Vegas Nevada. 360VR Community was there to see just how much importance had been given to our VR Industry, and suffice to say, we were blown away. Not only did VR get its own section in prime positioning in the…
The VR Community needs to thank British group Gorillaz for making its point about the Immersive and Emotional ability that only 360° Videos can bring. It was only fitting that a group that calls itself a “Virtual Band” would release such a massive production through its new 360° Music Video. The video in question, which you can…
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