{"id":152861,"date":"2016-01-25T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T08:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=152861"},"modified":"2016-01-25T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T08:35:01","slug":"samsung-opening-virtual-reality-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/152861-samsung-opening-virtual-reality-studio.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung opening virtual reality studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has revealed that it will open a virtual reality studio in New York, which will produce games and media for its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/148447-new-samsung-gear-vr-price-for-south-africa-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gear VR<\/a><\/strong> headset.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/24\/samsung-opening-vr-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a><\/strong>, the studio will be located inside an existing Samsung office &#8211; which means that large-scale productions are not likely from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung has also signed a deal with the\u00a0Sundance Institute to &#8220;foster movie makers and other creatives&#8221;, with VR expected to play a bigger role at future Sundance film festivals.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Gear VR headset is compatible with the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, and Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge.<\/p>\n<p>It has\u00a0a suggested retail price of R1,999, and is available from\u00a0Samsung Brand Stores.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Samsung<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/152435-samsung-begins-mass-producing-worlds-fastest-dram.html\">Samsung begins mass producing world\u2019s fastest DRAM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/151967-how-huawei-is-taking-on-apple-and-samsung.html\">How Huawei is taking on Apple and Samsung<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has revealed that it will open a virtual reality studio in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":137062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,33653,29210],"class_list":["post-152861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-samsung-galaxy-view","tag-virtual-reality-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152863,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861\/revisions\/152863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}