Barneys New York, the luxury specialty retailer, announced its spring campaign, Mantle, a virtual reality experience with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Samsung Electronics America. The iconic New York institutions have joined forces to create a virtual reality short film that blends fashion, technology and contemporary dance, premiering in Barneys New York stores […]
BBC Worldwide has teamed up with Google and BAFTA-winning game studio Preloaded to create a virtual reality experience for the audiences of the BBC’s hugely successful national history programmes like Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II. BBC Earth: Life in VR has been created by Preloaded in collaboration with BBC Earth Productions and […]
Sports Illustrated is supporting the publication of its popular annual swimsuit issue with a promotion that includes a Snapchat World Lens, an augmented reality (AR) feature that overlays digital images on a real background seen through a smartphone’s rear-facing camera. The Lens experience invites readers to experience the life of a swimsuit model and put […]
Facebook’s VR division Oculus has teamed up with Xiaomi to create a pair of standalone VR headsets with the aim of giving people more affordable access to VR. The Oculus Go, which was first announced back in October 2017, and the Mi VR Standalone were both unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018. “We […]
A new game has been released by the BBC. Doctor Who Time Vortex VR gives players the chance to pilot the TARDIS through the depths of the space-time vortex inside a virtual reality version of the show’s title sequence. The game is a VR reboot of the successful Time Vortex 360 mobile game released earlier in […]
Blend Media, a 360° VR video solution for brands, agencies, and publishers, has introduced a self-serve editing tool for brands and advertisers globally. The tool, called 360 Stories, enables marketers to create and publish interactive 360° video campaigns that are accessible for consumers on any device. Users can start by choosing a background from Blend […]
Buzzfeed and Brit+Co are using OmniVirt’s technology to deliver 360° photos and interactive 360° video for the latest Samsung holiday campaign. In its continued effort to promote ways that people can create and share 360° content, Samsung has teamed up with Buzzfeed and Brit+Co to showcase the power of its newest Gear 360 camera. Both campaigns […]
Tate and HTC VIVE are pleased to announce a new partnership for Tate Modern’s major upcoming exhibition, Modigliani. Visitors to the gallery will be able to enjoy a new integrated virtual reality experience right in the heart of the exhibition, the first of its kind at Tate, vividly enhancing our understanding of one of the early […]
Since adding 360 videos to News Feeds in June 2016, Facebook has spent 2017 significantly invested in the format. It enabling 360 live-streaming and then added that functionality within its apps, and even boosted the back end with automatic image correction. But the social network isn’t stopping its immersive push at flat imagery. Facebook’s Oculus recently announced it has started testing VR experiences […]
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality, now commonly known as XR, initially got the world – and big investors – excited with its seemingly limitless applications for film, gaming, and adult entertainment. However, in 2017 the land lies quite differently, as the now maturing technology is increasingly being applied to the more fundamental aspects […]