After a sharp contraction in 2025, near-eye display market revenue is forecast to reach $675 million (€592.7m) in 2026, up 12 per cent year-over-year (YoY), according to Omdia’s VR, AR, XR Near Eye Displays – 2026 Analysis. The research also projects that near-eye display shipments will reach 14.53 million units in 2026, representing a 16 […]
White Spark Pictures, a producers of Virtual Reality documentary films, has announced that that its latest immersive 360° VR title, Life in the Great Barrier Reef (1 x 35), will premiere at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra on June 17th, before opening at WA Museum in Perth from 27th June. Filmed across two […]
FKP Scorpio Entertainment (FKPE), the UK & European promoter of family-based exhibitions and experiences, is celebrating significant wins across The Telly Awards 2026 and Eventex Awards 2026 for Cleopatra: The Immersive Experience, produced by pioneering immersive entertainment institution MAD (Madrid Artes Digitales). Cleopatra: The Immersive Experience has been awarded nine coveted awards at the 47th Annual Telly Awards […]
DirecTV is debuting on Meta Quest headsets in the US, bringing live TV, sports, movies and on-demand favorites into a virtual reality experience. As the first MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) to launch on the Meta Quest headsets, DirecTV is expanding how – and where – people watch TV. Instead of being tied to a […]
Applause, a provider of crowdtesting and UX research that works with the likes of Netflix and Paramount+ and sports broadcasters, to provide quality assurance for a wide range of platform features, has shared its industry predictions for 2026 through Adrian Garcia, the company’s Senior Solutions Consultant. Garcia’s three key predictions for the next 12 months […]
There was a time when watching football meant a sofa, a pint, and a sense of belonging you couldn’t quite explain. You didn’t need 4K cameras or holograms; you just needed ninety minutes and a reason to care. Now, though, the game’s not just on your screen – it’s inside it. Sports broadcasting has gone […]
BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions worked closely with VERSA Studios, who partnered with Virtual Production specialists Immersion Science, to design and deliver the Virtual Production for The Great Ice Cream Hunt — bringing the technology to CBeebies for the very first time. This new musical adventure, filmed at VERSA Studios in Manchester, blends the […]
The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a collaboration of innovators working together to define and deploy open standards that power the next generation of media experiences, has announced the upcoming launch of the next evolution in open video coding: AV2. Set for a year-end release, AV2 is not only an upgrade to the widely adopted […]
CBS Atlanta announces the official launch of its local newsroom and the debut of its augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) news studio on September 15th – the first of its kind in the area. Leading this next-generation news experience is three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and Atlanta native Jobina Fortson-Evans, who has been named […]
Following the Welcome to Wrexham season 3 finale (streaming now on Disney+/Hulu), Meta Quest has unveiled an exclusive 3D VR activation inviting fans to step inside Wrexham AFC’s historic promotion celebration – captured live at The Racecourse Ground in Wales on May 4th. The Wrexham AFC x Meta Quest: Immersive Promotion Celebration – captured in […]