Meta is hoping to persuade Hollywood to supply immersive video content material, The Wall Avenue Journal experiences.
Mark Zuckerberg’s firm is providing corporations together with Disney and A24 “tens of millions of {dollars}” to supply “episodic and stand-alone immersive video based mostly on well-known mental property”, in keeping with the report.
The identical report carries the declare that the ultralight headset with a tethered puck that UploadVR just lately reported Meta is prioritizing delivery subsequent yr will value “lower than $1000”.
Meta’s Ultralight Headset With Puck May Be Round $1000
The ultralight headset with a tethered puck that Meta plans to launch subsequent yr will value “lower than $1000”, The Wall Avenue Journal experiences.
Whereas The Wall Avenue Journal means that Meta’s objective for bringing within the unique immersive video content material is to draw folks to subsequent yr’s headset, and that is virtually actually true, a supply tells UploadVR that it’ll even be watchable on present Quest headsets, as Puffin’s puck runs the identical Horizon OS.
This immersive video content material could be unique to Meta, the report says, producers “might promote the reveals or motion pictures to different platforms” after a sure interval of exclusivity.
Meta & James Cameron Associate To Assist Deliver 3D Video Content material To Quest
James Cameron introduced an unique multi-year partnership with Meta to assist convey considerably extra 3D video content material to Quest headsets.
The report comes six months after Meta and James Cameron introduced an unique multi-year partnership to assist convey considerably extra 3D video content material to Quest headsets. That partnership comes by way of Cameron’s firm Lightstorm Imaginative and prescient, which has the aim of “making stereoscopic know-how ubiquitous for all visible media by enabling stereoscopic 3D content material creation in as seamless a way as conventional 2D”. Particularly, Lightstorm Imaginative and prescient is constructing instruments it hopes will allow conventional leisure productions to movie and distribute in 3D simply and at low value.
On the time, Meta stated that partnership will convey “world-class 3D leisure experiences spanning dwell sports activities and live shows, function movies, and TV sequence that includes big-name IP” to Horizon OS.
The First Characteristic-Size Apple Immersive Video, A Bono Documentary, Is Out Now
Nevertheless, not all of its scenes are literally immersive, with many offered in common rectangular 2D.
Immersive video has been a significant focus of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. In addition to a 16-minute Submerged scripted brief movie in October, the platform noticed its first Apple Immersive music video from The Weeknd launched in November, a “live performance for one” from Raye, and the extraordinarily well-received Metallica live performance expertise in March.
Final week even noticed its first-ever feature-length Apple Immersive Video, the 1 hour 26 minute Bono: Tales of Give up, although not all of its scenes are literally immersive, with many offered in common rectangular 2D.
