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China’s Insta360 has announced it is taking preorders for its Insta360 Pro 8K professional virtual reality camera, the Insta360 Pro, as part of its ambitions to raise the bar for 360-degree VR films.

Until now, making high-resolution, stitch-free 360-degree VR films has been time-consuming. Google is aiming to change all of that. Google sure likes to shake things up. Over the last few months, ...

New video technology that films in 360 degrees brings viewers into the middle of the action and is set to become a powerful outreach tool to build understanding and empathy for wildlife and wild ...

Netflix's VR app puts you on the couch in a cozy cabin somewhere in a wintery paradise. Hulu's newly launched VR app goes the opposite direction, positioning viewers in the middle of a modern, ...

This year, the Venice Film Festival, held Aug. 30–Sept. 9, featured a section of competition devoted to virtual reality films for the first time. Patric Palm, the CEO and co-founder of Favro, a ...

On stage at Samsung’s 2014 developer conference last week, Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, spoke about the company’s initial work with virtual reality on ...

SAN FRANCISCO – As a reporter covering virtual reality, I've been chased by a realistic T-Rex and fake-trudged up the Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest. But while both experiences temporarily took my ...

One organization wants to share the stories of nonprofits helping young people survive and thrive, and it's using an innovative medium to do it. Epic Foundation, which aims to "disrupt the ...

As any tech headline will tell you, 2016 is the Year of Virtual Reality. Every billion-dollar corporation and its brother are rushing into the VR-headset market (Sony, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, HTC) ...

This 360 degree VR video of a young mountain gorilla taking an accidental ‘selfie’ was so affecting, it drove the photographers to create their own company, VR Gorilla, in honour of the event.

I love seeing people get excited about their first taste of VR. The sooner more people experience the transformative power of VR, the better. But if the high-powered, desktop headsets that are coming ...