Master Media, a media consultancy and development company and RealVision, a visual communications company, have joined hands to bring cinematic virtual reality content. The companies will soon launch a short movie Dirrogate: A cinematic VR novel. The movie is a mix of CG and live action in stereoscopic 360 degrees, claimed to be a first in […]
Master Media, a media consultancy and development company and RealVision, a visual communications company, have joined hands to bring cinematic virtual reality content. The companies will soon launch a short movie Dirrogate: A cinematic VR novel. The movie is a mix of CG and live action in stereoscopic 360 degrees, claimed to be a first in VR, globally.
Facebook’s investment in virtual reality through the acquisition of Oculus VR was the spark that rekindled the VR revolution. But Virtual Reality isn’t for gamers alone, and the new buzz phrase spreading through Hollywood is Cinematic VR, while top studios are in a scramble to learn all there is to know to create cinematic VR movies that encompass immersive storytelling with visuals that envelop audiences.
Watching a movie shot with a camera system that captures the entire 360-degree field of view on a virtual reality headset or HMD (head-mounted display) creates an experience that rivals even large-scale cinema screens. The caveat? There is an acute lack of compelling cinematic 360 3D content.
Master Medias team has been at the forefront of implementing the latest technologies, from setting up the first tapeless broadcasting facility in 2004, and then the first HDTV studios in the Arab world in 2009, to the first and only stereoscopic 3D lab in the MENA region in 2011,” claimed Hasan R. Sayed Hasan, Managing Director at Master Media.
Master Media is now leading the way with another innovative initiative through venturing into virtual reality content development and production.
Dirrogate: A cinematic VR novel is based on the 2013 hard sci-fi novel Memories with Maya.
Virtual Reality is the perfect medium to re-create visually, the ideas from the pages of memories with Maya. A.I., digital immortality and the wizer – the fictional sunglasses-like VR headset – are themes explored in the book, and they come to life in this VR novel, said Clyde DeSouza, the author of the book and partner at RealVision.
The film is approximately 10 minutes in length, and due to be released at the end of September.
