Netflix Launches Support for Virtual Reality Headsets, Hulu and More to Follow

Netflix has released its first app for virtual reality headsets. Oculus has also announced other new apps that will come to the headset. He made a brief appearance last week to announce that Minecraft would be available on Oculus headsets next year. Oculus users will now have access to more games, including an “Oculus Arcade” with VR versions of classics video games like “Pacman” and “Sonic the Hedgehog“.

The live presentations and tutorials have convinced us: yes, virtual reality is much more than video gaming. While virtual reality in itself is something to look forward to, the lack of content ready for VR will not help convince mainstream consumers to purchase a new electronics device that is certain to cost a considerable sum.

But Oculus is targeting a broader audience for the device through Oculus Video, which will let Gear VR owners buy and rent movies through partnerships with studios like 20 Century Fox and Lion’s Gate. Hulu subscribers will be able to log directly into the Hulu app through their virtual reality device.

Currently, the company has developed 4-, 7- and 14-camera rigs for video content, with the smaller two optimized for livestreaming. “This is why you want to do some of it every single day”.

At best, that sounds like a superficial and almost silly way to connect with people – you know, considering you could be in an actual living room together. His studio has been getting into VR, and Schell Games is the creator of one of the high-profile Oculus Touch demos at the conference, a Proto Award-winning game called I Expect You To Die.

Virtual reality is the latest technology presently turning heads.

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So what amount ofcompanies have created is a sort of virtual theater (pictured, right) using images to transform the viewer’s environment into a more cinematic experience. “The next logical step is fully immersive VR”. Some models will be going for less than $1,000. Samsung had impressed one and all earlier this year with the Gear VR Innovative Edition. Between Oculus, Samsung’s Gear VR, Google’s low-fi Cardboard, Sony’s PlayStation VR, Microsoft’s HoloLens, and HTC’s Vive, the ecosystem is already growing fast.