VIFF Immersed and the Role of the Film Festival in the Emerging XR Ecosystem
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9 min readSep 25, 2019
by Brian Seth Hurst and Caitlin Burns
In December of 2014, Samsung introduced the Gear VR Innovator Edition. It was the culmination of years of hope and hype the signaled the birth of a new medium. This would change the language of filmmaking: the way stories were told and the ways audiences experienced those stories forever. At…