John Wick , which stars Keanu Reeves as the title character, was developed like an indie film with a budget of just $20 million, but earned over $86 million at the box office. Now Lionsgate has turned the film into a franchise with a sequel that doubled the opening weekend of the first movie, earning over $30 million domestically in its debut.
Category: Virtual Reality
Imagination in 360A
Since January 2016, the Phi Centre has been presenting a series of exhibits in its Virtual Reality Garden, a permanent installation which uses 360A storytelling to shatter the boundaries of art and technology. Their new animation-themed installment runs until March 12 and features four short films and one of Ubisoft’s first virtual reality video games, Eagle Flight .
Facebook’s Oculus facing $500 million bill in copyright case
In this June 11, 2015, file photo, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey holds up the new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for photographers following a news conference, in San Francisco. In a verdict reached Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, Facebook’s virtual-reality subsidiary and two of its founders, Luckey and Brendan Iribe, are facing a sobering reality after a jury hit them with a $500 million bill for infringing on the rights of a video-game maker.
Facebooka s Oculus facing $500 million bill in copyright case
Facebook’s virtual-reality subsidiary and two of its founders are facing a sobering reality after a jury hit them with a $500 million bill for violating the intellectual property rights of video-game maker ZeniMax Media. The verdict reached Wednesday in a Dallas federal court represents about one-fourth of the $2 billion that Facebook paid two years ago to buy Oculus, a developer of virtual-reality gear and software.
System Update: The 20 very best video games of 2016
Virtual reality has arrived for the mainstream and the Nintendo’s Wii U is on the way out. The hottest console to have is a blast from gaming’s past , and the two biggest-name consoles, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, have seen their first mid-generation hardware upgrades.
It’s not too late: Last-minute Christmas gift ideas
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