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…
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…
This all seems like a joke, right? Guess what: it is NOT. At first, I thought this was a creepy yet brilliant viral marketing strategy in the ”use that VR stuff everyone is talking about to get people to talk about us” vibe. But it seems that this is an all-too serious Training Program being…
The product description sounded good on paper, although the product’s name should have warned us: “FaceDisplay: Enabling Multi-User Interaction for Mobile Virtual Reality”. Then, we saw the product introductory video. My reaction was… Well let’s just say that Ace Ventura said it best: “Aaaaaallllllrighty then…” Taken from the white paper: We present FaceDisplay, a multi-display mobile…
There’s Good News, and there are Bad News attached to the news that, along with the September 15 launch of Samsung Mobile‘s latest flagship phablet, the Note 8, it was also launching a new Gear VR headset. Once again proof that Size DOES Matter, the 0,1 inch (2,54mm for the rest of the World 😉) difference…
We first heard of this project during the 2017 Google I/O Conference this past May, tried it, but seeing how it has eveolved is phenomenal! The Experience is meant to be inclusive no matter what tech you own, from desktop to room-scale. The beauty of WebVR! Dance Tonite is an ever-changing VR collaboration by LCD…
According to a press release on its corporate website, UPS has confirmed that it will “start training student delivery drivers to spot and identify road hazards using Virtual Reality (VR) headsets that vividly simulate the experience of driving on city streets while teaching a more memorable classroom lesson.” The VR Training Initiative is set to…
Mobile VR seems to be steadily growing in numbers, repeatedly outpacing the PC-based tethered VR solutions. In particular, it came to a surprise to us to see how quickly the numbers had grown for sales of the Google Daydream View, and when we realized its sales were higher than the HTC Vive & Oculus Rift…
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