How do High5VR and OowOah fit into a business VR project?
If you have come across both High5VR and OowOah, it helps to start with what your business needs to do. Commissioning original VR content and using a shared VR meeting or event platform are different starting points, and some projects may involve both.High5VR provides VR production and development services. OowOah…
What should you include in the budget for a first VR training pilot?
A first VR training pilot is easier to budget when it tests one clearly defined learning need. Instead of starting with a complete training programme, identify a task, audience and outcome that will help you judge whether further development is worthwhile.The budget should cover the experience and the practical work…
How should a dealership prepare its first customer VR vehicle demonstration?
A customer VR vehicle demonstration needs a clear purpose. Before choosing the content, decide what the customer should understand afterwards: the layout of a vehicle, an unfamiliar feature or the experience represented by a filmed virtual test drive.Keep the first demonstration focused. Trying to cover every vehicle and every feature…
What evidence should you ask a VR production company for before signing a contract?
A polished showreel can help you discover a VR production company, but it cannot answer every question about your project. Before signing a contract, ask for evidence that connects the company’s previous work to your audience, equipment and intended outcome. Can you try a relevant example?Ask to experience something that…
What VR content should we prepare for a live event or exhibition stand?
VR content for live events should help visitors understand something relevant to the event. An exhibition experience might show a location that cannot be brought to the stand, introduce a product environment or present a short immersive story. High5VR can discuss the content around the audience and the conversation you want to have afterwards.
How to Start VR Training in Your Business
How to Start VR Training in Your Business Virtual reality training sounds exciting, but where do you begin? You do not need to put your entire training programme into VR at once. The best starting point is one task your staff need to practise regularly, particularly if mistakes are costly,…
What Is Virtual Reality? A Guide to the Future of Immersive Technology
Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that allows people to enter and experience a computer-generated digital environment as if they were physically there. Using a VR headset, users can look around, interact with objects, move through virtual spaces, and experience digital worlds in a completely immersive way. Unlike traditional screens…
VR Training for Healthcare Staff: What Could They Practise?
VR Training for Healthcare Staff: What Could They Practise? Healthcare staff often need to make decisions, communicate clearly and follow procedures under pressure. Reading about a situation helps, but it cannot always show what it feels like to face it. Virtual reality training can place a learner inside a realistic…
Has Meta just accidentally shown us the future of VR?
Images hidden inside Meta’s own software may have revealed Project Phoenix—a much slimmer mixed-reality headset that looks closer to a pair of glasses than today’s bulky VR headsets. It could be officially unveiled at Meta Connect later this month, but for now, Meta is keeping quiet. 🤫 Would slimmer VR…
Step Inside the Story: Sammy Rambles and the Floating Circus Breaks New Ground in VR Cinema
High5VR is deep in development on Sammy Rambles and the Floating Circus—an ambitious immersive VR movie based on the original book by J. T. Scott. Click here for details of the books and author This is far more than an animated film viewed through a VR headset. The production is…
High5VR Welcomes Raihan Islam as Chief Legal Officer
We are delighted to welcome Raihan Islam to High5VR as our Chief Legal Officer (CLO). Raihan is not your typical lawyer. He combines legal expertise with an impressive 28 years of experience in software engineering, giving him a rare understanding of both the technology we create and the legal frameworks…
Virtual Reality Production Companies
Virtual Reality Production Companies: How to Choose the Right Team Planning a VR project but unsure whether you need 360° filming, an interactive app or a fully developed training experience? The right production company will help you choose the approach that fits your audience and your goal. High5VR creates VR…
Manual Handling Training: How VR Can Improve Workplace Safety
Manual Handling Training: How VR Can Improve Workplace Safety Manual handling training is an important part of workplace health and safety. Every day, employees across construction, warehouses, factories, healthcare, retail, hospitality and offices are required to lift, carry, push, pull or move objects. When these tasks are carried out incorrectly,…
What Is Augmented Reality? How AR Technology Is Transforming the Future of Business
What Is Augmented Reality? Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that overlays digital information, images, 3D objects, and interactive experiences onto the real world. Unlike Virtual Reality (VR), which creates a completely digital environment, augmented reality enhances the world around us by adding digital elements to what we already see….
What Is ChatGPT? How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Way We Work
What Is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to understand and generate human-like conversations. Developed using advanced AI models, ChatGPT can answer questions, create content, help with research, assist with coding, analyse information, and support businesses with everyday tasks. Unlike traditional software that follows fixed instructions, ChatGPT…
What Is Virtual Reality? A Guide to the Future of Immersive Technology
Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that allows people to enter and experience a computer-generated digital environment as if they were physically there. Using a VR headset, users can look around, interact with objects, move through virtual spaces, and experience digital worlds in a completely immersive way. Unlike traditional screens…
High5VR: The UK VR Production House Transforming Immersive Storytelling
Virtual reality is changing the way stories are told, and High5VR is helping lead that transformation. As a UK-based VR production house, High5VR combines cinematic filmmaking, immersive 360° video production, artificial intelligence and virtual reality technology to create experiences that place audiences directly inside the action. Unlike traditional video production,…
Sky AdSmart Cost: TV Advertising From Just 4p Per View
Sky AdSmart TV advertising can start from just 4p per view, giving businesses a more affordable way to reach targeted television audiences. High5VR helps companies create professional broadcast-ready TV adverts and launch targeted Sky AdSmart campaigns. Traditional TV advertising was often considered too expensive for smaller businesses, but targeted advertising…
Girls Don’t Do Tech | The Inspiring Story of Curiosity, Motherhood & Innovation
“Girls don’t do tech.” That was the message Hannah Hua Hayes heard growing up. Instead of following a traditional path into technology, Hannah studied literature, travelled the world, taught in remote mountain communities, embraced different cultures through language, raised bilingual children, and ultimately found her way into immersive technology, storytelling,…
Impossible Closeness – A Forbidden Love in Ancient China – A short film
A painter falls in love with a woman he can never truly know, discovering that the deepest forms of closeness are often those that cannot be seen. Short Synopsis (FilmFreeway) Set in a poetic world inspired by the Tang Dynasty, Impossible Closeness follows Shen Mo, a blind painter whose extraordinary…