Cannes Film Festival to show Oscar winner’s VR short
This year’s Cannes Film Festival will include a virtual reality film from Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu. The double Oscar-winning director’s film Carne y...
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This year’s Cannes Film Festival will include a virtual reality film from Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu. The double Oscar-winning director’s film Carne y...
John Legend is turning executive producer for a new virtual reality animated series from VR company Baobab Studios. Legend will also lend his voice...
$4.7 billion of that total will be accounted for by head-mounted displays
Highlights will be available on YouTube and Facebook from Sunday morning
Soho-based sound design company Grand Central Recording Studios has announced the launch of GCVRS – its new VR division. The new department will “offer...
It will become 'more ubiquitous' in areas such as healthcare, automotive, education and entertainment
Channel 4 has dipped into its Growth Fund to take a minority stake in new VR firm Parable. The UK-based company, which was co-founded...
Focal Point VR has launched its 360-degree VR live stream software platform – Ubiety. The company is inviting attendees to experience VR ‘teleportation’, discovering...
Smartphone VR headset sales to increase fivefold between 2017 and 2021
Blend Media, the new 360-degree video and virtual reality content and creator platform founded by Damian Collier, has received financial backing from the co-founder and...
2016 saw a new generation of immersive media technologies come to market. Oculus Rift, HTC’s Vive and Microsoft’s HoloLens were first out the gate,...
New VR series launches on Google Cardboard and YouTube
The Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR is unlike most other public broadcasting groups in Europe as it delivers programmes to three different language-speaking audiences,...
Axon Digital Design will introduce UK content creators to AZilPix Studio.One, a new virtual camera system for live video capture and streaming. According to...
David Davies reports from the Futuresource Audio Collaborative conference in London
The Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) has assembled to help ‘push widespread adoption’ of VR. Founding members include Akamai Technologies, ARRIS International, b<>com, Baylor...
TVBEurope hosted its latest industry roundtable last week at London's Soho Hotel. Held in association with Quantum, the afternoon's theme was storage for the...
The ATP has partnered with ATP Media, Infosys and Sony Professional Solutions Europe to deliver live coverage of the ATP World Tour Finals in...
YouTube has launched a standalone virtual reality (VR) app which will be available on Daydream, Google’s new VR platform. VR video, which will include...
Adam Fry, vice president of Sony Professional Europe, is one of the coolest Joe Cools around. With live sports now providing 90 per cent...
Intel has completed its acquisition of virtual reality startup Voke as it looks to expand into immersive sports. Voke, founded in 2004, is based...
The use of gesture and motion controls in smartphone-based VR will be the key to driving usage, according to the latest report from Juniper...
SDK has been announced that will support playback of VR content from the OZO as well as content created on other VR cameras. Nokia’s...
Five immersive technology-focused companies have formed Disruptive Reality a group working on a category of VR content dubbed ‘immersive entertainment’. The group
BusinessSony has announced that it will be creating a variety of virtual reality content “beyond gaming” following last week’s global launch of the PlayStation...
The uptake of VR throughout the UK will be a 'slow burner' with just three per cent purchasing a headset throughout 2016, according to...
Virtual reality is still in its infancy but is already attracting significant investment from major tech players including Google, Facebook and Samsung. This big...
Hardware revenues from virtual reality headsets, peripherals and 360-degree cameras are set to increase tenfold over the next five years, according to Juniper Research
Sky is aiming to become the ‘home of high quality VR’ with the launch of the Sky VR app. The free app will showcase...
Orange is set to launch an OSC VR service, which will be made available on Samsung Gear VR from 12 October. The service will...
The BBC has continued to experiment with emerging broadcast technologies after creating a holographic TV device for future audiences. The ‘low-fi and low-cost’ device...
BT Sport is set to provide a virtual reality experience for this weekend’s Premier League game between Chelsea and Arsenal. The company will be...
Philip Stevens talks to the CEO of the Olympic host broadcaster about the upcoming spectacular in South America
Cartoon Network is launching a new virtual reality mobile game and branded headset, based on its popular animated series Adventure Time. I See Ooo...
Kaltura is launching the VR Alliance at IBC2016, in partnership with VR content and distribution company Inception, as well as 24i, Encompass and Harmonic,...
NewsSales of dedicated VR headsets will grow tenfold by 2020, with smartphone VR headsets growing fivefold, according to the latest CCS Insight research. The...
Fox Sports is to kick off the 2016/2017 Bundesliga season in live virtual reality (VR). In collaboration with NextVR, the broadcaster will deliver Bayern...
NewsThe ‘world’s first’ HD camera to shoot and live-stream HD, VR and panoramic stills and videos directly from an iPhone has been launched by...
NewsEuronews is set to launch a virtual reality news project. The project, backed by the Google Digital News Initiative (DNI) Innovation Fund, will kick...
NewsAlex Mahon, ex-CEO of Shine Group and now CEO of The Foundry, will talk attendees through her journey from traditional TV to the new...
NBC is set to deliver coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in VR. The content will be exclusive to authenticated users of compatible...
NewsThe BBC is launching a number of new virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree projects. The various, ‘relatively low budget’ releases have been developed to...
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