Reports came out last year that Samsung VR was working on a product code-named Odyssey, and company execs admitted that Samsung was working on higher-end VR projects. Last week, photos of what was claimed to be final product photos we posted by Twitter user Walkingcat. The images, included in this article, show what would be a high-end…
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…
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…
Stephen King’s IT, originally released in 1990 as a two-part miniseries, scared the 💩 out of pretty much everyone. This past week, it was (finally!) released as a full-length movie, and we are PSYCHED. Though technically not a “remake”, as it was never a “movie” to begin with, many people out there seem to think…
Fiiiinally!!! The news we at 360VR Community have been waiting ever since mid-May has arrived! Google announced during its I/O 2017 conference that no less than 10 smartphones would be compatible to their Daydream VR Platform by end of 2017, including Samsung’s Galaxy S8 & S8+ by ”End of Summer”. While I hope this doesn’t mean…
Just a over a year ago, in June of 2016 to be precise, award-winning filmmaker Chris Milk‘s VR Studio was called VRse. On June 16 of 2016, the studio received a $12.56 million Series A round of funding from 21st Century Fox, Andreessen Horowitz, Raine Ventures, WME, Live Nation, Vice Media, Tribeca Enterprises, Annapurna Pictures, Legendary…
Step inside a dystopian near-future Los Angeles with Blade Runner 2049: Replicant Pursuit, coming to Gear VR on July 21! Oculus, the platform behind Samsung Mobile‘s Gear VR, partnered with Alcon Interactive Group to bring Blade Runner into VR with a trio of experiences from three different developers, including Evolve and Left 4 Dead creators Turtle…
Virtual Reality was supposed to “explode” back in 2016. Here we are, at the midway point of 2017, and it is still in its infancy. I would say there are many reasons for it, the lack of Content being one of those reasons, the plethora of platforms and options being another. And yet, despite VR…
The biggest buzz of last week was all about Facebook/Oculus‘ announcement of Pacific, a Standalone VR Headset from Oculus that would be released sometime in 2018, with a price tag of about $200 USD. A VR Headset is considered “Standalone” when it does not require any PC or Smartphone for its content delivery. In principle,…
Warner Brother’s DUNKIRK, directed by the one and only Christopher Nolan, comes out in theatres on July 21st 2017 in both IMAX and regular movies screens. To drum up promotion for this highly anticipated film, the studio enlisted the assistance of Microsoft, Dell and Intel to create a Cinematic 360° experience. Practical Magic , the Studio…
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