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Samsung has partnered with EarthX to debut a dozen immersive short films on the Samsung XR video platform from environmentally-focused filmmakers. Samsung XR is Samsung’s immersive video platform, and home to more than 10,000 videos. Image courtesy Samsung, EarthXR. Valen’s Reef.
Announced at the Samsung Developer conference last week, the 360 Round is the company’s new camera for creating and streaming 4K 3D content. A total of 17 lenses (eight stereo pairs aligned horizontal, and one centered vertical lens), and 6 internal microphones allows for capturing 3D 360video and spatial audio.
It may be hard to believe but its been four years since Samsung and Oculus first announced their smartphone-powered Gear VR headset. Since then, Marvel has released not one but two Guardians of The Galaxy films that people actually love. Skybox is an in-VR 360video player that actually seems to care about the little things.
Exactly what is still unknown, but if we had it our way, we hope he takes a serious look at 360° video and VR storytelling. Neistat shared one of the first 360videos shot with the Gear 360 back in March from the Oscar’s and kicked off the U.S. launch of the 360 camera at VidCon.
Former EP at Vrse.Works, filmed360° video for NY Times, Within, Facebook, Airbnb, Muse, Mastercard and more. Filmed360° video for Conan, Vogue, Jaunt, Discovery, TBS, USA, Lexus and more. Filmed360° video for Casamigos, Mercedes, Youtube, RedBull, and more. Nokia OZO?—?$17,500.
The 360film industry is still young and it’s maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 20 360film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they’re going, and why. Over the past three years, the primary customer of 360film has been big brands.
The first program, the 360 Filmmakers Challenge, partners nine San Francisco Bay Area high schools with professional filmmakers to create 3-5 minute 360° films about their communities. Students reviewing their 360video footage. The first videos will be unveiled at Sundance 2017.
So far, the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival has been a chaotic whirlwind of innovative filmmaking, groundbreaking immersive entertainment and masterful storytelling. The 8-minute experience uses the Samsung Gear VR to give you an in depth, and at times unsettling look into the increasingly hostile situation.
The Samsung Gear VR experience can viewed in Barneys New York stores. Launched in Barneys stores on March 6th, Mantle is an 11-minute VR short film that brings the fashion of four modern designers to life through modern dance. The VR film is being shown of Samsung Gear VR headsets.
To compliment the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce Distorted Reality , a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOS. We are excited for the world to see this piece.
Anonymous Content ( 360video on YouTube ). Stranger Things VR Experience – Netflix – Netflix and CBS Digital ( 360video on YouTube ). The People’s House – Inside The White House With Barack And Michelle Obama – Samsung / Oculus – Felix & Paul Studios.
Following the news of director Ridley Scott’s film production company launching a VR division , the release date for the Alien: Covenant In Utero experience has been announced in a brief teaser (seen heading this article); it’s coming April 26th to Oculus platforms.
Parallel with new, more powerful and higher resolution VR headsets, improvements to NextVR’s technology are bringing promising new levels of quality and volumetric capability to VR video content. Attitudes toward 360video content among high-end VR users are generally quite bad. Photo by Road to VR. Photo by Road to VR.
Dubbed Alien: Covenant in Utero , the two-minute VR video experience is now available on Oculus Rift for “Alien Day,” a nod to planet LV-426 from the Alien films. Inspired by a scene in the film, Fox teamed up with FoxNext VR Studio, RSA VR, MPC VR, Mach1 and technology partners AMD RADEON and DELL to bring the piece to life.
Some 82 percent of our clients feel actually relaxed by seeing the films,” the organization’s policy advisor Johan Elbers told AFP. The Dutch government provided a 50,000 euro ($59,000) grant to develop the waterproof VR goggles, which contain a Samsung smartphone mounted on a 3D-printed rig made of recycled plastic.
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Today, Oculus is announcing that the groundbreaking virtual reality short film, Lost , is coming to the Samsung Gear VR. For its debut on the less-powerful Gear VR headset, the project has been repurposed as a 360video rather than a full, PC-powered, VR experience that allows for robust features like positional tracking.
This means you can watch on Google Daydream View and Cardboard, and with a little extra creativity, on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with Opera’s new experimental browser and Gear VR through Samsung Internet. Episodes filmed in Antarctica were directed by Barry Pousman and produced by Yes Please Thank You.
Samsung is bringing fans closer to the Olympic Games with this immersive Beach Volleyball VR film. This is why Samsung wants to tell the inspiring stories of Olympic Games hopefuls who are defying barriers on their quest to compete. What a beautiful place to shoot 360° video.
Other events hitting Venues later this summer include films screenings from Lionsgate Films, featuring Reservoir Dogs (1992) , Sinister (2012) , Apocalypse Now (1979) , and National Lampoon’s Van Wilder (2002). Most Gear VR-compatible smartphones work with Venues, excluding Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy Note 5.
In addition to the two POV 360° videos, a third experience showcases some of the biggest moments at the O2 music and entertainment venue. Compatible with multiple VR platforms including Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, fans will be transported into worlds of unforgettable live experiences. O2 Academy Venues VR.
To complement the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce “Distorted Reality,” a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOs. He owned this new format and really took charge.
Written and directed by Nora Kirkpatrick ( The Office, Greeks ) and produced by AOL’s immersive film studio RYOT , the single-episode VR comedy will be available on Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, PSVR, Google Daydream and Oculus Rift. Presented in 360 degrees, Door No. Hulu’s new VR comedy Door No.
Step inside the suspenseful world of film noir in a series of short virtual-reality films, and see what its like to be in a scene with the year’s best actors.” This particular video is our personal favorite with exceptional visual storytelling and use of lighting to direct the audience’s attention.
Nokia has launched the OZO Player SDK , a cross-platform foundation for creating applications with high fidelity VR video playback. Content shot with Nokia’s OZO VR camera is naturally well supported by the OZO Player SDK (including the unique audio format), but the SDK will support VR video content shot with any camera.
and Samsung showed off their latest Suicide Squad VR experience. Winding through long halls of barbed wire and prison cells in this recreated Belle Reve penitentiary space, we got our first look at the 360° video on Gear VR headsets while sitting on swivel chairs strapped with SupPac haptic vests.
This first episode in the series was launched on April 20th in honor of Earth Day at the EarthX Festival in Dallas, the Newport Beach Film Festival, the International Ocean Film Tour, and MountainFilm. Sean approached [John] with the idea of a film and it slowly developed from there,” Engman said.
For many, the 360 ° video of his daughter’s first steps was the first 360 ° video they ever watched. With it, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated the benefits of 360 ° content and a major use case for consumers: to save and share family moments to be relived at any point in time. Impact on Consumers. Impact on Consumers.
Bennett was an entertainment industry veteran with 27 years of experience in film, television, and music. In 2016 they teamed up with Samsung to simulate an in-game basketball experience for the Rio Olympics. Two Bit’s Jake Sally taking someone through the Samsung Olympic experience.
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Today Oculus kicked off a new initiative today called VR for Good by launching two pilot VR film programs to inspire the next generation of VR creators – starting with high school students, rising VR filmmakers, and nonprofit organizations. The first videos will be showcased at Sundance 2017.
Exposure therapy can be a useful tool to address fears, which we recently saw used in Samsung Nordic’s Gear VR campaign that put individuals face to face with their fear of spiders. ” So to create a fun and engaging experience for the children, a 360° video was shot that introduces them to three members of the Swedish swim team.
As more filmmakers dip a toe into VR, the sheer volume of 360-degree video releases can be overwhelming. Samsung today just released its top five most viewed videos on its Samsung VR service in 2016, including and a couple of Six Flags rides, and from Singularity Lab, which traces the birth of the world.
The production value on this experience is on par with something you would expect to see in a Pixar film. Raising a Rukus was created by Academy Award winner Robert Stromberg (Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent) and The Virtual Reality Company and it is available for Samsung Gear VR and can also be seen at the IMAX VR Experience Center.
It’s difficult to capture the visceral, intense, brutality of the sport on-screen, but documentaries, replays, and a slew of films and television series have done their part over the years. However, it’s worth pointing out that YouTube videos can easily be downloaded and/or accessed on other headsets anyway.
Gear VR co-creator Samsung Electronics brought several of its mobile VR HMDs along to the event, showcasing a total of nine VR films that were made in partnership with the UN itself. The first ever UN World Humanitarian Summit was held in Istanbul, Turkey this week, and VR was there to help make an impact.
Despite the marked absence of Samsung, all the usual players were there. And we (the content creators) are not competing with some dude who just bought a Gear360 and is filming his dog’s first steps – we’re competing for eyeballs with Game of Thrones , Peaky Blinders , Taylor Swift, Snapchat, and Instagram. I came, I saw, I critiqued.
It is an end-to-end platform, from content capture to reporting/assessment, and the content is viewed with regular VR headsets like Oculus and Samsung Gear VR. Last year we had 20,000 plays filmed and 45,000 play views,” Belch said. STRIVR has done a few PGA Tour 360video fan experience deals, but nothing on the training side yet.
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NextVR’s supported platforms now include Oculus Quest, Samsung Gear VR, PSVR, Google Daydream, Windows VR headsets, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Valve Index. Check out the schedule below for NextVR’s 30 Days of LIVE Events: Sunday, 9/1 | shallou in Concert | 6pm PT.
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