The Royal Air Force (RAF) has released an immersive VR film created by Engine that allows potential new recruits to experience what a role in the Royal Air Force is really like. Link to the VR experience: https://recruitment.raf.mod.uk/360interactiveexperience/index.html The high-intensity 360-degree film offers an insight into life in the RAF from a range of first-hand […]
VR headsets will be donated to university to inspire tech innovation and help build mental resilience
Ant Middleton, former British Special Forces Operator, Sunday Times Best Selling Author, and TV star, has partnered with PhotonLens, augmented reality smart glasses experts, to create an epic virtual reality experience inspired by Middleton’s intrepid climb of Mount Everest. 70 of the VR PhotonLens headsets preloaded with the content will be donated to universities to […]
At CES, Charmin announced a robot built to help you in your most vulnerable moment. The RollBot “delivers a fresh roll of Charmin to you so you won’t have to be left in a bind ever again.” The RollBot is part of a trio of “conceptual prototypes” developed by Saatchi & Saatchi NY’s PG One. Charmin’s relentless […]
Blend Media, which provides premium 360/VR content for brands including Disney and McCann, has launched Blend Market – a platform which helps clients find and hire skilled professional creators of immersive content and experiences across the VR/AR/MR spectrum. With the rapid advancement of new technologies and increasingly powerful mobile devices, major platforms including Facebook, Google […]
The British Museum and Samsung reopen the award-winning Samsung Digital Discovery Centre (SDDC) after a significant upgrade, and announce an ambitious new digital learning programme that brings together the world of museums with the world of technology. The new SDDC sees a major expansion of the Virtual Visits programme, where schools that are unable to […]
Cheil Worldwide has used augmented reality and virtual reality to bring the Great Gate of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897) back to life, more than 104 years after it was destroyed. The Donuimun Gate, one of the Four Great Gates in the City Wall of Seoul, was destroyed in 1915 during the Japanese colonial period. In […]
Admix, a monetisation platform for Extended Reality (XR), has announced that over 200 brands have run ad campaigns in VR and AR environments via its platform. The brands, buying direct on Admix’s platform or via ad exchanges, also include Shell, Subway, Ford, Apple, Nike and many more global household names. It has also announced that […]
Total spend on digital advertising will reach $520bn (£409bn) by 2023, rising from $294bn this year, according to new analysis from Juniper Research. This is an average annual growth of 15 per cent over the next five years, driven by the use of AI-based programmatic advertising to deliver highly targeted ads. For the purposes of Juniper’s […]
Admix, a monetisation platform for Extended Reality (XR), announced the launch of the world’s first programmatic 3D ads for extended reality environments like VR and AR. Advertisers are now able to feature their products in 3D environments, enabling consumers to interact with those products natively within a game, VR or AR experience. For instance, a consumer […]
Virgin Media gave TV fans a unique glimpse of 2019’s Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards, with a 360 live stream from the red carpet, a robotic photo experience capturing beautiful shots of guests, behind the scenes interviews with award winners and the chance to win tickets to 2020’s BAFTA TV Awards. As part of […]