Amazon may be embarking on creating its own VR content

BySamantha Cristoforetti

Following Amazon's online shopping and cloud business,Virtual reality (VR)Leakage from stakeholders is starting to embark on the content market. Moreover, it seems that Amazon's aim is not to provide VR content, but to produce VR content.

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News siteThe WRAPReported that several Amazon stakeholders got a testimony that "Amazon is making VR content" under the condition of anonymity.

Hulu, a rival of Amazon's streaming content already,Hulu VRNetflix is ​​launching the provision of VR content such as releasing a VR application that can virtually watch a movie like a movie theater. For that reason, it was considered time for Amazon to start offering VR content as well.

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However, Amazon stakeholders said that not only the platform service for supplying VR contents, but Amazon is considering the creation of VR contents by their own company. VR contents creation project by Amazon is still in its early stages, handling film productionAmazon StudiosIt is said that it is leading the project.

Oculus RiftYaHTC ViveThe VR content market, which is increasingly showing excitement as high-performance VR headsets are released, is expected to become a huge business in the future. In addition to Facebook with Oculus,Gear VRSamsung andCardboardNot uniqueVR headset development rumorsWith the big name of the high-tech industry such as Google, there is a high possibility that Amazon will raise his name.