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Verizon to power Gravity Point’s VR hub

Verizon Digital Media Services today announced that it has been selected by Gravity Point TV, a specialist in the worldwide virtual reality (VR) services space, is to exclusively power the all-new VR viewing hub, Gravity Point VR. Already a user of Verizon’s Uplynk Video Streaming service, Gravity Point TV will now also utilise the Edgecast […]

May 9, 2017

Sky creates Joshua vs Klitschko VR film

Sports fans around the world can now relive Anthony Joshua’s epic victory against Wladimir Klitschko via a Virtual Reality (VR) experience. The 12-minute film, created by Sky’s dedicated in-house VR production unit, Sky VR Studios, provides a unique perspective on what is already being considered one of the greatest heavyweight bouts to take place on […]

May 8, 2017

VR: Virtually a reality?

Virtual Reality will work in a way that 3D didn’t. That’s because VR and Augmented Reality have so many obvious and useful applications across a range of sectors from medicine to architecture to robotics. A broad plane of development also means TV will benefit from not having to do all the production and workflow heavy […]

May 8, 2017

Facebook closes Oculus VR movie studio

Facebook is shutting down its VR studio in California which created films and video content for its Oculus virtual reality headset.  The Oculus Story Studio will no longer create its own material but will now help others make VR-ready content. The social media giant said the closure of the studio did not mean it was […]

May 5, 2017

AOL: “Shorter videos = bigger audiences”

The results from a AOL’s latest global research study reveal the consumer behaviours and industry trends driving the evolution of digital video, and point the way for advertisers and publishers looking to make the most of digital video in 2017. There are many challenges, but with consumers making digital video a habit – 92 per […]

May 3, 2017

Atlantic Productions wins VR BAFTA

Sir David Attenborough’s award-winning Great Barrier Reef factual series has won another ‘gong’, this time for its Virtual Reality Dive version of the show, which has won a BAFTA. The show, produced by Atlantic Productions, has now won 3 different BAFTA awards across all the key elements of new digital media: 3D, 4K and now, […]

April 26, 2017By Chris Forrester

Nokia, Intel, Haivision demo 4K VR live streaming

At NAB 2017, Haivision, a specialist in video streaming solutions, has launched dual 4K live streaming of VR 360 content. The company is demonstrating the technology with Nokia and Intel. Its latest advancement in high resolution HEVC and H.264 encoding, the KB 4K internet streaming encoder is now available with the Intel Visual Compute Accelerator […]

April 25, 2017

Harmonic, Blue Man Group team for VR experience

At the 2017 NAB Show, Harmonic is showcasing its 360-degree immersive virtual reality (VR) technology with a demonstration featuring pre-recorded content of Blue Man Group from their stage at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. “Harmonic and Blue Man Group share a passion for stunning imagery that entertains and awakens the senses in […]

April 24, 2017

Sky to transform Attenborough into VR hologram

Sky and Sir David Attenborough will take people behind the glass at London’s Natural History Museum in a world-first interactive virtual reality experience. Users will get ‘hands-on’ access to rare objects, while a three-dimensional hologram of Sir David offers his own unique insight on each specimen in a one-on-one interactive experience. In Hold the World, […]

April 20, 2017By Nik Roseveare

Facebook ups AR/VR game

Mark Zuckerberg has revealed Facebook’s new Camera Effects Platform to a developer event in California, designed to give developers the power to build AR tools. He described the previous rollout of camera functionality across all of Facebook’s apps as “act one”. Act two, he said, is “giving developers the power to build for augmented reality […]

April 19, 2017