Facebook’s Oculus unit has acquired Beat Games, a company known for the virtual-reality video game Beat Saber.
Terms were not disclosed. The company will become part of Oculus Studios but will also produce games for other platforms.
Beat Saber is described as a light-saber-endowed spin on the game Dance Dance Revolutio…
The American Film Market said Wednesday that it is adding programming and exhibition space devoted to immersive content for this years 40th annual confab, which is set for November 6-13 in Santa Monica.
The expansion into Extended Reality includes a half-day Immersive Summit set for November 9 at the Fairmont Miramar…
Oculus Studios has teamed with Baobab Studios for a bold VR experience for their animated feature Crow: The Legend which features the voices of John Legend, Oprah Winfrey, Constance Wu, and Diego Luna. The experience is set to launch next week on Oculus Rift and Oculus Go next week.
Crow: The Legend is a Native…
Darren Aronofsky’s three-part virtual reality series Spheres will make its world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, which also will mark the debut of the final chapter of the series, narrated by actress Millie Bobby Brown.
Brown, who received an Emmy nomination for her supporting role as Eleven on the…
Everyone loves a good GIF, but what about a GIF that gives a full, 360 degree immersive GIF? Gfycat has done just that by reinventing the standard 2D GIF with 360Loop. To launch their new venture, Gfycat has partnered with Paramount Pictures to launch an exclusive series of 360Loop GIFs for the forthcoming action pic M…
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmakers Jacob Wasserman, Adam Donald, and Ant Gentile announced today the launch of Hidden Content, a full-service virtual reality company. The news was unveiled at the Tribeca Film Festival with the world premiere of their first project The Caretaker. The horror anthology series is a narrative 360…
From Dusk Til Dawn and Sin City filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is cooking up a raft of virtual reality film projects after revealing the first glimpse of his forthcoming VR action thriller The Limit.
Rodriguez was at Mip TV in Cannes to attend a Deadline-hosted panel session all about the nascent technology and lift the…
EXCLUSIVE: The deepest darkest corners of the universe are unveiled in the new trailer for Eliza McNitt’s Spheres: Songs of Spacetime, the first installment of three in an episodic series will be released on the Oculus Rift in 2018.
Making its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontier category, Songs o…
CAA has signed its first fully Virtual Reality director. Kevin Cornish, who has established himself as a leader in directing high-end, cinematic VR, putting together content for brands ranging from IBM, Google, Oculus, Discovery, MTV, AT&T, Ram Truck and AMD and has worked with such talent including Taylor Swift and…
As studios look for fresh ancillary revenue streams for films, virtual reality may prove to be an easier means of making money with exhibition than any controversial premium VOD window.
This morning, Imax and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced a new virtual reality co-financing and production agreement to…
Sony Pictures' virtual reality (VR) group and Madison Wells Media's Reality One are teaming up to develop virtual reality experiences based on the Culver City studio’s upcoming pics and franchises. Reality One will partner with Sony to produce and finance the slate, while the studio oversees the worldwide distribution…
