VRScout

MAY 23, 2019

A new era in VR technology arrives with the Oculus Quest standalone headset. The Oculus Quest shouldn’t exist—at least not at this price. Most importantly, the Oculus Quest ditches the past complexities and considerable expenses of modern VR, ushering in the dawn of true consumer-level virtual reality.

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MAY 5, 2017

Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. When we started to show people [the Oculus Rift] in Hollywood, their question was ‘how do we get started?’…

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ARPost

MAY 19, 2021

Co-produced by Digital Rise and Be Revolution Pictures, the immersive visual experience will have its world premiere at two festivals – Tribeca Film Festival , from June 9 to June 20, and NewImages Festival , from June 9 to June 13. Of course, such a daring new approach had its challenges. What Does It Mean to Be Free?

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2018

Oculus previously announced earlier this year that Oculus Go , the company’s 3DOF standalone headset, would officially launch in 23 consumer markets, although China would be receiving its own version with Xiaomi branding. Image courtesy Xiaomi, Oculus.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Oculus recently opened applications for its annual Launch Pad program, a developer mentorship that provides funding and resources to people from underrepresented backgrounds. Potential applicants can sign up here through May 20th, and select one of three categories—360 degree film, VR experiences, and VR games. Image courtesy Oculus.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Of course, for long term success, there has to be a source of recurring revenue, which leads us to this next story. The product is a 3D modeling software for PC VR and Oculus Quest headsets. Sundance Film Festival brings VR Storytelling and Movie Premieres to your home. In the long run it could be a good thing.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This includes everything from a Fall Guys -inspired map that replaces the colored blocks with bean people to a custom track set to the entire Shrek film. via the Oculus Store and SteamVR. that transforms the game from VR rhythm slasher to VR platformer. The custom map can be downloaded here. Beat Saber is available now for $29.99

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Earlier this morning Adobe announced the purchase of Oculus’ 3D VR sculpting app, Oculus Medium. Of course, the app has proved immensely popular among amateur creators as well, resulting in a sizable catalog of user creations. . Nothing is changing for you today,” states Oculus in the tail-end of the post.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2021

The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) has announced the finalists for the fifth International VR Awards , an international ceremony honoring incredible milestones made within the VR industry in categories such as hardware, gaming, film, social VR, marketing, and more. VR FILM OF THE YEAR. Think of it as the Oscars of VR!

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VRScout

JULY 16, 2020

Of course it goes without saying the immersive capabilities of VR offer a far more realistic experience, making the games many jump scares even more terrifying. This ended up being my favorite game mode of the bunch, perhaps due to its similarities to my favorite sci-fi film, Aliens. The Verdict. Image Credit: Steel Wool Studios.

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VRScout

MAY 15, 2019

We’re less than a week away from the long-awaited release of the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset and with over 50 launch titles already confirmed, it appears as though we’ll have plenty of content to look forward to this coming Tuesday. Until then, I guess you’ll just have to make do with the fifty over Quest titles available at launch.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, no. It consists of you using just an Oculus account (even a new developer one) without an associated Facebook account and using an old version of the Oculus companion app on your phone that sees your Quest 2 as an old plain Quest. Of course, it works by being connected to the phone via USB.

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VRScout

APRIL 24, 2021

Set 15 years after the events of the original film, Alien: Isolation has you stepping into the role of Amanda Ripley as she embarks on a mission to discover the whereabouts of her missing mother.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If 2018 is remembered for anything, it’ll be for the multiple high-quality animated VR films released throughout the year. Featuring an absolutely stellar voice cast including everyone from John Legend and Oprah Winfrey, to Constance Wu and Diego Luna, Crow: The Legend is arguably one of the most well-structured VR short films ever released.

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Road to VR

MARCH 10, 2018

Quill , Oculus’ VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to show the incredible potential of drawing and animating in VR. Which helped to build this quickly.

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2016

Now Facebook is showing us their first 3D 360° video produced and filmed using the Surround 360 camera. The roughly 3-minute long short film, Here and Now , was uploaded on Facebook’s page and shot in New York’s famous Grand Central Station over three 90-minute sessions. So what did Facebook learn from shooting ‘Here and Now’?

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2017

San Diego’s Comic-Con always sees a massive fanfare for all things science fiction, so there’s no better place for Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros Pictures to debut the VR experience for their upcoming film Blade Runner 2049 , Riddley Scott’s sequel to the iconic Blade Runner (1982).

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2021

Oculus today announced that the v29 update will begin rolling out to users “soon” (likely starting this week), and will bring mixed-reality smartphone capture, a file browser, phone notifications in VR, and more. Image courtesy Oculus. App Advertisements Coming to the Oculus Smartphone App.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The FM360 Duo looks almost like a pair of tactical binoculars you might see in some Hollywood-produced sci-fi film. Each lens has a resolution of 6000×6000, which makes the FM360 Duo suitable for high-quality VR filming. You can also shoot 30 frames at 12K, or 60 frames at a maximum of 8K. The app will be available starting 2021.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 5, 2021

Of course, our entertainment won’t be limited to linear media experiences like videos. Creators use virtual reality production techniques to plan and “shoot” film in VR, as if they were on set with the animals. Of course, this isn’t only for creating or consuming pre-produced content, it’s affecting live events too.

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2020

Leading the design of these ambitious locations is Napoleon Smith III, the producer behind the 2014 film reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ; he’ll be working alongside Arizona-based real estate developer True North Studio to bring his vision to life in Phoenix later this year.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This year’s Venice Expanded set out to do just that, scouring the metaverse for the most exciting and important works; a Hadron Collider of film, gaming, and social experiences, brought together in a single festival. To attempt this seemingly impossible task, the 75th Venice Biennale brought out the big guns. .”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Together with this, Facebook also employs holographic optics, which is a bit more difficult to explain, but basically, it is lik e a tiny plastic film that has saved inside the information on how to bend laser light rays in a particular way. Of course, the reconstructed image is not exactly as the original one, but it is very similar.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2018

One of the largest independent film festivals in the world, the annual Tribeca Film Festival is responsible for delivering some of the most impactful and most-talked-about creative projects to NYC audiences. The post Tribeca Film Festival’s Virtual Arcade Steps Up VR Game For 2018 appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel Ready Player One is hitting the big screen later this month. Like pretty much everyone else on the planet, save film critics and the people who attended a limited early debut, I haven’t seen the film yet.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2017

HWAM’s first exhibition is a unique collection of Star Wars production pieces, including the very first drawings made for the film franchise and never-before-seen production art from the original trilogy by Lucasfilm alum Joe Johnston, Ralph McQuarrie, Phil Tippett, Drew Struzan, Colin Cantwell, and more.

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VRScout

JANUARY 11, 2018

Spielberg’s upcoming Ready Player One film adaptation is shaping up to be not only one of the most highly-anticipated releases of 2018, but one of the biggest VR-focused feature films of all-time. Much like both the book and the upcoming film, this VR experience is riddled with various other cameos and references.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Prior to landing in VR, I worked as a copywriter on film trailers, TV spots, and promotional media. Of course, if you haven’t tried VR, I recommend that as an obvious first step. Because our actions have consequences, agency drives story in a totally different way in VR than in a passive medium (film, literature).

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2019

Ever since our brief interaction with Vacation Simulator during last years Tribeca Film Festival, we’ve been clawing at the chance to get our hands on the endlessly-charming follow-up to Owlchemy Labs 2016 smash hit, Job Simulator. Vacation Labs will be available on SteamVR and Oculus April 9th for $29.99.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

VR Film of the Year. Perhaps no experience shows this better than VR films. Nominees were insightful, educational, and – of course – immersive. Thank you to the VR Awards, AIXR, all the judges, everyone in the audience, and Altspace, of course,” HP’s Joanna Popper said accepting the award.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

It’s February 2 nd , so of course that means Groundhog Day. It’s February 2nd, so of course that means Groundhog Day Click To Tweet. You can now get a first look at Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son, an immersive VR game continuing 26 years after the iconic film left off. Click To Tweet.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2018

Oculus CTO John Carmack has developed a new approach to VR video playback which makes it possible to play 5K 3D 360 video on headsets like Oculus Go and Gear VR. ‘Henry’ was the first production from the now defunct Oculus Story Studios. Image courtesy Oculus. “Dust off those old studio masters!”

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VRScout

APRIL 22, 2018

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.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The scariest time of the year has come and gone, and although we were expecting the first two episodes of The Exorcist: Legion VR in time for Halloween, fans of the film franchise and The Exorcist TV series probably won’t mind one bit. it was probably demons).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Walmart is continuing its onward journey to think outside of the big-box with the help of VR, this time bringing 50-foot tractor-trailers to their megalithic parking lots across the US to let shoppers go head-first into a VR experience for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. From heart-pounding games to engrossing films to VR comics, there’s a little something for everyone. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (9/10/16).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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