IMAX CEO talks VR and original content plans | News | Screen
Richard Gelfond spills the beans on how IMAX is “branching out into new initiatives”. Source: IMAX CEO talks VR and original content plans | News | Screen
Attractions Management – Another VR breakthrough as Disney researchers integrate moving physical objects and virtual worlds…
It might look like a man simply catching a tennis ball, but a new video from Disney Research shows much more than that. Disney’s researchers have developed a way for users to be able to accurately catch a physical ball … Continued
CinemaCon: Virtual Reality Company, D-Box Partner on VR Motion Experience | Hollywood Reporter
The Virtual Reality Company — the maker of Fox’s The Martian VR Experience that was co-founded by Maleficent director and two-time Oscar-winning production designer Robert Stromberg — is teaming up with motion seat maker D-Box Technologies to introduce VRC’s first … Continued
What Could Virtual Reality Bring to the Cinema? Stakeholders Converge on CinemaCon | Hollywood Reporter
Virtual reality headsets, tailored to the individual, and moviegoing, a group activity, might seem poles apart, but various VR business models will be rolled out at CinemaCon, where it is expected to be trumpeted as the newest addition to the … Continued
My afternoon at the virtual reality cinema
Each year, the gathering of tech-film-music enthusiasts highlight virtual reality/augmented reality, or VR/AR, technologies that seem to be on the brink of widespread use — but never quite get there. Content, more so than the technology, always seems to be lacking. Source: … Continued
Take a ride on Positron’s Voyager, a full-motion chair for VR cinema | Macworld
Watching Tom Cruise embark on a dangerous mission aboard a zero-gravity plane sounds terrifying enough, but experiencing it next to him in a motion simulator is next-level. Source: Take a ride on Positron’s Voyager, a full-motion chair for VR cinema … Continued