

If nothing else, having the opportunity to effectively stand ‘on set’ whilst in the shire is an intriguing prospect. It’s a video that’s probably of most interest to fans of Jackson’s epic series of LOTR movies. Follow a distant Gandalf as he traverses Hobbiton, a journey which culminates in a slightly incongruous fireworks show.

Rather, it opts to drop you into the world of The Hobbit and in particular Bilbo Baggin’s idyllic home village of Hobbiton. The Hobbit VR Experienceĭesigned to promote the final part of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit ‘Trilogy’ The Battle of the Five Armies, this VR Experience has little whatsoever to do with the movie itself. When launched, the ‘viewer’ apps download copies of the videos in question and launch Jaunt’s 360 degree stereoscopic viewer which uses your phone’s onboard accelerometers to present you with a view of the action based on your head movement and direction. All of this content is free to download.Įpic Games is “exploring native Unreal Engine support" for Apple Vision Pro You can also download all of them (bar Jack White’s Third-D) on Windows and Mac, viewable via an Oculus Rift VR headset. As before, the new videos are all captured with Jaunt’s proprietary camera and audio technology then stitched together and packaged using systems and techniques developed in-house.Īll new experiences are now available on the Android OS via Google’s Play Store, designed to be experienced via the seemingly ubiquitous Google Cardboard VR viewer platform. Now, Jaunt have released a further four experiences and continue the trend of covering as much creative and technical ground as possible. See Also: Paul McCartney’s ‘Live and Let Die’ Performance is Jaunt VR’s First Publically Available Cinematic VR Content We’ve already covered Jaunt’s Premiere with Paul McCartney’s Live and Let Die, followed subequently by Kaiju Fury, The Mission and Black Mass. All spanning a wide collection of genres, all exploring different aspects of this promising new format. They’ve just released a further 4 mini-experiences, available for download now.Ĭonsidering the young age of the company, the breadth of content Jaunt have managed to accumulate in such a short period of time is quite extraordinary. A veritable flood of content is ushering forth from the company that’s specialising in producing and distributing stereoscopic 3D, 360 videos for VR.

Jaunt VR are seemingly working overtime to make up for their months running in stealth mode.
