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Facebook Connect: The 5 Biggest Announcements for Immersive Journalists

17th Sep 2020

Facebook Connect: The 5 Biggest Announcements for Immersive Journalists

Yesterday, Facebook held its annual Connect conference on the company’s virtual and augmented reality efforts. Instead of multiple days, the majority of this year’s news was packed into a two-hour…

Q&A with TARGO About its Emmy-Nominated VR Series “When We Stayed Home”

18th Aug 2020

Q&A with TARGO About its Emmy-Nominated VR Series “When We Stayed Home”

At the end of July, nominations for the 72nd Emmy Awards were announced. French VR documentary studio TARGO bagged two of the three nominations in the Outstanding Original Interactive Program…

Apply for a Journalism 360 Grant to Fund Your Immersive Journalism Idea

13th Aug 2020

Apply for a Journalism 360 Grant to Fund Your Immersive Journalism Idea

Submissions to the the 2020 Journalism 360 Challenge are now open. The Journalism 360 Challenge aims to fund experiments in immersive journalism, and is requesting creators submit their ideas for…

XR Intelligence: Making the Business Case for VR, AR and XR

8th Jan 2020

XR Intelligence: Making the Business Case for VR, AR and XR

According to XR Intelligence‘s latest XR Industry Insight Report (2019-2020), 93 percent of  enterprises that have decided to use virtual reality (VR) have seen a positive effect on their business, with…

Snapchat updates Lens Studio: 14 new landmarks, 6 new lens templates

29th Aug 2019

Snapchat updates Lens Studio: 14 new landmarks, 6 new lens templates

All images credited to Snapchat. On August 26, Snapchat released Lens Studio 2.1, which included the addition of 14 new landmarks and six new lens templates. They’ve also published an…

Cinema Goes Virtual, VR Goes Indie, and Immersive Expands at SXSW 2019

13th Mar 2019

Cinema Goes Virtual, VR Goes Indie, and Immersive Expands at SXSW 2019

Adobe’s Director of Immersive Chris Bobotis outlines the emerging trends in immersive media he’s been seeing so far in 2019. From the snow-packed slopes of Sundance to the Texas heat…

VR/AR/MR event calendar 2019

9th Jan 2019

VR/AR/MR event calendar 2019

Techies have converged upon Las Vegas this week to attend CES 2019 (our own Editor-At-Large Robert Hernandez will be there tomorrow). If you could not attend, or you are attending…

Q&A with National Geographic’s Jenna Pirog and Kaitlyn Mullin

11th Dec 2018

Q&A with National Geographic’s Jenna Pirog and Kaitlyn Mullin

On December 5, National Geographic announced a partnership with YouTube to produce immersive content that would bring its audience to the farthest reaches of the world. The partnership kicks off…

NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge submissions open

16th Aug 2018

NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge submissions open

PILOT, NAB’s technology innovation initiative (and Knight Foundation grantee), is accepting submissions for its third annual PILOT Innovation Challenge. The initiative aims to fund ideas that leverage technology to enhance…

YouTube Space London calls for VR Creator Lab applications

16th Jul 2018

YouTube Space London calls for VR Creator Lab applications

YouTube, Daydream and VRScout are calling for applications for the partnership’s VR Creator Lab in London. The three-month opportunity to experiment with YouTube’s VR180 format is open to individuals residing…

Journalism 360 Challenge now accepting submissions to fund immersive journalism

4th Jun 2018

Journalism 360 Challenge now accepting submissions to fund immersive journalism

A couple weeks ago, we announced that Journalism360–an initiative from Knight Foundation and Google News Initiative to accelerate immersive storytelling in news–would be hosting an Unconference focused on immersive journalism…

Red, Lucid team up on 8K 3D camera for Hydrogen One phone

22nd May 2018

Red, Lucid team up on 8K 3D camera for Hydrogen One phone

A new prosumer 8K 3D camera will connect to RED’s Hydrogen One smartphone, giving users a chance to preview 3D content in real time without glasses or a headset. At…

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