Meta is hoping to convince Hollywood to produce immersive video content, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Mark Zuckerberg’s company is offering firms including Disney and A24 “millions of dollars” to provide “episodic and stand-alone immersive video based on well-known intellectual property”, according to the report.
The same report carries the claim that the ultralight headset with a tethered puck that UploadVR recently reported Meta is prioritizing shipping next year will cost “less than $1000”.
Meta’s Ultralight Headset With Puck Could Be Around $1000
The ultralight headset with a tethered puck that Meta plans to launch next year will cost “less than $1000”, The Wall Street Journal reports.
While The Wall Street Journal suggests that Meta’s purpose for bringing in the exclusive immersive video content is to attract people to next year’s headset, and this is almost certainly true, a source tells UploadVR that it will also be watchable on existing Quest headsets, as Puffin’s puck runs the same Horizon OS.
This immersive video content would be exclusive to Meta, the report says, producers “could sell the shows or movies to other platforms” after a certain period of exclusivity.
Meta & James Cameron Partner To Help Bring 3D Video Content To Quest
James Cameron announced an exclusive multi-year partnership with Meta to help bring significantly more 3D video content to Quest headsets.
The report comes six months after Meta and James Cameron announced an exclusive multi-year partnership to help bring significantly more 3D video content to Quest headsets. The partnership is through Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision company, with the aim of making stereoscopic technologies ubiquitous in all forms of visual media. Apple Vision Pro has focused on immersive video. It released a 16-minute scripted short film in October, a “concert for one”
, as well as the extremely popular
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However, not all of its scenes are actually immersive, with many presented in regular rectangular 2D.
, all of which were produced by Cameron’s company Lightstorm Vision. Apple Vision Pro has focused on immersive video, including a 16 minute scripted film called Submerged, released in October. It also saw the release of a music video The Weeknd from November and a concert for one from Raye. In March, it saw the very well received Metallica concert experience.