Blackmagic Design have introduced two exciting new products for professionals working in Live VR – an 8K Recorder and an 8K switcher. The recorder costs $4,995 and the switcher $9,995. This complements their existing 8K I/O card released last year, available for a relative snip at $695.

The new devices are fully compatible with our Mini EYE™ cameras, StitchBox™ and Live VR workflow. You can now master with a single recorder in 8K, and run an 8K live VR workflow with zero latency, and all the benefits that ATEM based switching provides. Continue Reading

It’s been a while since we last shared an update. This summer has been a busy one at 360 Designs HQ.

We’ve been continuing work on our Live VR Truck build over the summer, which is an in-house project to create the ultimate live VR production vehicle. The 360 Designs Live VR production truck is designed for producing major live 360 / VR events, as well as traditional 4K camera events, and can handle 10 live 360 cameras or 10 traditional 4K cameras, or any combination of the two.

The live 360 truck will be used for our tentpole live VR productions for brand name clients, and on a case-by-case basis available for use by other 360 companies, TV stations and production companies.

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It’s a work in progress but we recently acquired our first 360 Designs production truck, which we’re excitedly converting for Live VR / 360 use.

It’s believed to be the world’s first satellite VR truck, and will be ready for client use this summer.

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The HPA Tech Retreat is a gathering of prominent chief engineers, CTO’s and technologists working in television and broadcasting, held annually in Palm Springs.

This year, 360 Designs Founder & CEO Alx Klive provided the VR keynote address to a packed audience at the Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, who learned in most cases for the first time what is involved in producing a large scale live VR broadcast.

The presentation covered the behind-the-scenes work involved specifically in delivering last year’s ‘Racing the Sun’ VR broadcast, in partnership with CNN, which featured a number of highly technical challenges to solve. These included having 7 remote camera locations across the country, a live 360 helicopter shot, and four live 360 car shots.

We are very grateful to HPA Tech Retreat for inviting us to speak at their prestigious event, and look forward to going back.

The 2018 Lumiere Awards were held at Warner Bros Studios in Los Angeles

Director and Writer of Rose Colored Adam Cosco with Jill Sachs

We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that our very own Director of Narrative Content, Adam Cosco secured an impressive win last night at the prestigious Lumiere Awards in Hollywood for his VR film Rose Colored.

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When CNN approached us about streaming the 2017 Eclipse in live 360 / VR, we were initially a little skeptical. The nature of 360 video dictates that proximity to the camera of your subject is usually very important, and there isn’t much further away than the sun. Going live from 7 locations without Internet access was another significant challenge, and there would be many other challenges too.

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Reggae SumFest is the original and most authentic Reggae Festival in the world, taking place in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It attracts tens of thousands of people, internationally famous artists, and this year celebrated its 25th anniversary.

360 Designs produced a technically sophisticated and high production value, multi-camera, live VR broadcast, streamed live in 360/VR video, to YouTube, as well as the festival’s own website. Major artists included Sean Paul, Beenie Man and Stephen Marley among others.

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Google introduces new YouTube 180 format

With YouTube’s major announcement on Thursday about their YouTube 180 video format, we’re hearing from customers who are interested in it, and what it might mean for their work and 360 video.

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Following a year of secret development, we are excited to announce Flying EYE™ – a groundbreaking, 6K, broadcast quality, live streaming VR drone.

Flying EYE Introduction Video

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The interest in live action VR is clearly growing….

A packed crowd filled the theater at BVE in London today to capacity, to hear 360 Designs Founder and CEO Alx Klive deliver a keynote VR address to broadcast industry attendees at the UK’s largest TV and media equipment show.

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