Tag: VR

Rikard Steiber, the president of Viveport at HTC Vive, discussed opportunities for VR content with World Screen’s Anna Carugati during a MIPTV keynote.

LONDON: Discovery Communications has given a worldwide release to the scripted VR production The Haunted Castle, shot at the famed Corvin Castle in Transylvania, Romania.

SYDNEY: Australia’s Seven has partnered with Samsung to deliver 100 hours of live and on-demand virtual-reality content from the Olympic Games in Rio.

SANTA MONICA: SPACES, a new virtual reality company founded by two former DreamWorks Animation executives, has raised $3 million in initial funding, with Comcast Ventures leading the financing round.

LOS ANGELES: Novovision recently launched two separate entities that will be dedicated to the virtual reality (VR) industry.

LAS VEGAS: Hollywood views virtual reality as an industry game changer full of possibilities, despite the current hurdles facing the nascent technology, according to a joint study by the Consumer Technology Association and NATPE.

NEW YORK: Syfy has launched an innovation hub tasked with creating multiplatform content mixing emerging technology such as 3D printing and virtual reality with the network’s original programming. Called Syfy Labs, the unit will partner with 3D-printing company MakerBot to offer …