{"id":9678,"date":"2015-03-05T08:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2015-03-05T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:43:06","slug":"cirque-du-soleil-samsung-teaming-for-virtual-reality-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=9678","title":{"rendered":"Cirque du Soleil, Samsung Teaming for Virtual Reality Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cirque_du_soleil_a_l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9679\" src=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cirque_du_soleil_a_l-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"cirque_du_soleil_a_l\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cirque_du_soleil_a_l-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cirque_du_soleil_a_l.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Samsung wants you to strap a phone to your face to get into the middle of Cirque du Soleil's world of jugglers, gymnasts and stilt-walkers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Cirque du Soleil Media,\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #e11a1f;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/canadas-cirque-du-soleil-bell-404022\" target=\"_blank\">a joint venture between\u00a0<\/a>the Canada-based circus troupe and broadcaster Bell Media, has pacted with Samsung to produce a liveaction virtual reality aerial show to be viewed on its flagship Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">All that's needed is connecting the Samsung phones to a Gear VR virtual reality headset, powered by Oculus, to view content based on Cirque du Soleil\u2019s most recent touring show,\u00a0<em>Kurios - Cabinet of Curiosities<\/em>. F\u00e9lix &amp; Paul Studios, a Montreal studio that produces 3D 360\u00b0 VR content, will produce the content that has Cirque du Soleil acrobats tumbling and twirling over the heads of Samsung phone users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">See the full story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/cirque-du-soleil-samsung-teaming-778647\" target=\"_blank\"> here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/cirque-du-soleil-samsung-teaming-778647<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung wants you to strap a phone to your face to get into the middle of Cirque du Soleil&#8217;s world of jugglers, gymnasts and stilt-walkers. Cirque du Soleil Media,\u00a0a joint venture between\u00a0the Canada-based circus troupe and broadcaster Bell Media, has pacted with Samsung to produce a liveaction virtual reality aerial show to be viewed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-3d-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9680,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}