MANDT VR – a Fully Functioning 360 Degree Virtual Reality Video Production Studio
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The studio balances technological innovation with storytelling artistry, creating immersive content that goes beyond traditional video, transcending the barrier between viewers and stories.
Its 360-degree video shows cover a variety of topics, including a romantic drama called Single in the City—about a woman dating in the digital age—and a series featuring Pokémon GO.
The guys at MANDT discuss the current state of virtual and augmented reality, including some exciting developments coming from Apple and other tech companies in 2017. Hollywood works with MANDT VR, so you should pay attention to what these guys have to say.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.9 | Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:26.5 | Hey, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, almost here around the corner of future technology. |
| 0:33.1 | And today I've got a really interesting interview. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm speaking to Chadwick Turner, chief strategy officer, and Brian Caballaro, Chief Creative, Creative Officer at MNT VR, Virtual Reality. They have a studio in Los Angeles that uses virtual reality to give people experiences and to tell them stories and, you know, kind of immerse them in the VR experience. |
| 0:57.7 | And I hope that's an accurate assessment. Is that right, guys? |
| 1:01.0 | That was really close. The company, it's based off the last name. So it's actually Mance VR, M-A-N-D-T. |
| 1:08.5 | And our CEO is Neil Mance. |
| 1:11.4 | So it doesn't necessarily roll off the tongue, but we're hoping the brand will speak for itself. |
| 1:16.8 | Okay, all right, M-V-R. Gotcha. Gotcha. |
| 1:19.8 | So what does this studio you guys have? |
| 1:22.1 | What's it like when you walk in there and what kind of things can you do in there? |
| 1:25.8 | So it's a turnkey production company. |
| 1:27.9 | It's in Hollywood right in the middle of, you know, a lot of Hollywood studios where it basically |
| 1:34.6 | has everything you would need to produce VR. |
| 1:37.1 | And as far as we know, it's sort of the first of its kind of kind of stuff is piece mailed. |
| 1:41.7 | So there'll be some places where you can, you are film-friendly, some places that you can edit, |
| 1:48.5 | some places where you can record audio. |
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