Christina Heller is the co-founder and CEO of VR Playhouse, and she gave a talk with her co-founder Ian Forester at SVVR 2016 titled "How Fantasy Becomes Form" about the process of starting up a 360-degree video production studio....

Felix & Paul Studios, the creative and technical force behind 360 VR films such as 'Strangers' and 'Zarkana' have announced that they're to receive $6.8 in series A funding to expand their creative immersive enterprise. Some of the earliest pioneers in...

KonceptVR has produced a couple of 360 videos for Broadway Theater productions that includes a promo with the cast of Hamilton as well as a music video with the cast of School of Rock. I had a chance to...

Virtual reality filmmaking is in its infancy but one Brendan McCourt reports from the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto where virtual reality as a documentary filmmaker platform was on trial. Can VR really become the "empathy machine" some are...

Ben Lang sits down with John Gaeta and Vicki Beck to discuss Lucasfilm's focus on immersive storytelling with the formation of ILMxLab last year, and their constant experimentation in the immersive entertainment space. Lucasfilm's ILMxLab are optimistic, perhaps even bullish, about...

Starbreeze, the company behind the 210 degree FOV VR headset StarVR are to work with large-scale cinema specialists IMAX to create "premium location-based VR" experiences "worthy of the IMAX brand". It seems IMAX, the brand known for their huge, immersive cinema...

The producer behind First, Jonah Hirsch, is turning his attention toward another historical VR encounter with Anne. As a child doing my school-assigned reading of The Diary of a Young Girl, I drew upon the words of Anne Frank's diary to picture what...

Hammerhead VR is soon to launch their début VR film experience ABE VR, a horror experience based on the striking short film ABE (2013) from Writer / Director Rob McLellan. I find out what it's like to be the object of affection for a...

Every time I've ever been shown a piece of 360 video content with an improperly aligned horizon, I've wondered to myself why it seems like no one is using hardware-stabilization. Then I saw Spherica's custom-built 360 camera rig which...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and in commemoration a group of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers have set out to capture the wreckage that was once the city of Pripyat and its surrounding countryside. The 360 film aims...

Kevin Cornish is a LA-based VR filmmaker who teamed up with AMD to do some interactive narrative experiments using gazed-based content in Believe VR. Depending on which character you look at different moments will triggered up to 32 different...

Once upon a time if you were a filmmaker who wanted an aerial shot, you paid a hefty fee to charter a helicopter and brought a camera along for the ride. Today, filmmakers can use virtual reality to pre-plan...

Felix & Paul are among the most respected in the as yet young field of immersive filmmaking and now, the studio has been nominated for 2 daytime Emmy awards for their VR films “Inside Impact: East Africa” and “Inside the Box...

Gary the Gull is an interactive short film featuring a feathered conman—a dirty, two-faced lunch-stealing swindler. Ok. I'm not really angry, partly because both Gary and my picnic lunch  aren't technically real, but the people behind Gary the Gull want to make...

Michel Reilhac is a French filmmaker who wanted to explore intimacy and polyamory within an immersive 360 video called Viens! (Come!). His Sundance New Frontier piece featured 3 women and four men exploring sensual touch and sexual intimacy with...