Category: Film

With help from Lucasfilm’s virtual reality team

“explore the intense and excruciating experience of a group of immigrants and refugees crossing the border between Mexico and the United States.”

Four-time Oscar-winner Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has an intriguing new side project: a short film shot in virtual reality about immigration between Mexico and the US. The director of Best Picture nominee The Revenant — a grim, frontier Western starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and a bear — will be working on the short with frequent collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki, the winner of three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography…. more at THE VERGE

“…the $45,000 stereoscopic camera is becoming one of the go-to all-in-one solutions for VR filmmakers…”

The new Assisted Exposure Mode lets users enable the camera to adjust exposure automatically depending on lighting changes within the space…. more at TechCrunch

“Blade Runner has always pushed the boundaries of cinema, visionary art, design and story and bringing the sequel to this beloved sci-fi property to VR gives us an opportunity to push those boundaries further.”
The Blade Runner 2049 VR Experiences will be exclusively distributed on the Oculus platform, giving them a leg up over the competing VR goggles. Alcon has announced that the VR Experiences will be distributed around the October 2017 release of the film…. more at /Film News

“Virtual reality is something that’s incredibly interesting to us because it gives us the opportunity to engage fans in a new way” – OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder

With over 100 perfectly choreographed actors and a VR camera on a cable rig, Chris Milk’s studio Here Be Dragons created a VR experience for fans that brings them closer than ever to the multi-platinum and Grammy-nominated band OneRepublic… more at VRScout

Inquisitr News

The BBC is testing a technology that could make every “Star Wars” fan’s dreams a reality. A 3-dimensional holographic table television has moved beyond concept and is now working as individuals test its capabilities in an attempt to fine tune the invention. According to Business Insider, the holographic television is reminiscent of the one Princess Leia used to send her message to Obi Wan Kenobi, via R2-D2, in “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.” Similar holographic televisions were seen on the … Read the full story