360 video is an immersive format that provides compelling, immersive 360 experiences. With the wide range of popular 360 video cameras available, it allows for easy, no-coding content creation for businesses, NGOs, and education organizations. 360 video can be used with any smartphone-based VR system, which means that with the addition of Google Cardboard, most of your clients or students will already have the hardware they need.
The challenge with 360 video is that you do not have the six degrees of freedom (6DoF) as you do with full VR experiences. However, with its low development and distribution costs, it is a catalyst for expanding the use of XR technologies. In the hands of artists and filmmakers, it is having a revolutionary impact on journalism and new media projects at art and film festivals.
The massive SXSW 2021 festival is almost here, and its vast sweep of talks, films, music, games, and VR/AR projects will be entirely online due to the pandemic. If you have a …
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The Sundance 2021 VR projects in the New Frontiers program will be available this week (January 28 – February 3) in the Festival’s first attempt at a virtual world. Like every other …
Read more Can the Sundance 2021 New Frontier Program Deliver as a Virtual World?
The New Frontier Program at the Sundance Film Festival has always positioned itself at the intersection of film, art, and technology. Its experimental projects in VR have been groundbreaking, from Nonny de …
Read more Sundance 2021 Goes Virtual for the New Frontier VR Program
The 2020 Thanksgiving Day parade will be one like no other. In the midst of a raging pandemic with increasing infection rates and deaths (over 2,000 today), the well-known holiday celebration has …
Read more The 2020 Thanksgiving Day Parade – Stay Home and Watch the 360 Video
As virtual reality gains popularity, there is an increasing challenge of uncovering good creative work amidst all the VR experiences hosted online. Searching through content on SteamVR can be an exercise in …
Read more The Festival Collection: A Platform for Creative VR Projects
It wasn’t hard to see this coming. At last year’s Oculus Connect conference, the San Jose Convention Center was rife with rumors that the Oculus Go headset would be canceled. Nearly every …
Read more Oculus Go Headset Discontinued – The End of 3DOF VR?
If you’re sheltering in place on this Memorial Day Weekend, check out the SXSW 360 videos that are now online through May 31. The VR experiences were originally meant to be available …
Every year, we do our festival review of the VR films (or 360 videos) at the Tribeca film festival. This year, the VR experiences in the Cinema360 program are a mixed bag. …
Read more Festival Review: Tribeca’s Mixed Bag of 360 Video Experiences
As one more casualty of the Coronavirus, the Tribeca Film Festival Cinema360 program moves online this year. We’re trying to look at this on the bright side. The Festival, which is right …
Read more Tribeca Film Festival Cinema360 Moves Online This Year
It’s no surprise that theme parks are devastated by the Coronavirus. All a park can do is close their doors, promise to retain their employees (or not), and watch the balance sheet turn …
Read more We’re Left to VR Amusement Rides During the Coronavirus
This summer, I will be teaching The Art of Immersive Storytelling workshop at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. The mission of Anderson Ranch Arts is to enrich lives with art, …
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This year’s Thanksgiving Day parade includes a live broadcast in 360 and celebrity holograms from Verizon. As in years past, some 8,000 people and large balloons will wind their way through Manhattan …
Read more 2019 Thanksgiving Day Parade – 360 Video and Holograms
This fall marks the third year of VR at the 76th Venice Film Festival, or what is now known as Venice Virtual Reality. The works are divided into two tracks, one focusing …
Read more 39 Innovative VR Projects at the Venice Film Festival
Scratch another immersive technology development off the list. After high hopes and promises of a ubiquitous mobile VR platform, Google Daydream is essentially over. The HMD is still available on the Google …
In a blow to VR filmmaking, Google is closing their VR studio, “Spotlight Stories.” The popular immersive film studio shuttered with an announcement in Variety: Google Spotlight Stories is closing its doors …
Here’s a chance to experience some innovative 360 videos at SXSW if you’re in Austin, Texas. They’re coming from Brett Leonard, director of Lawnmower Man, which remains a classic if terrifying vision …
Read more Lawnmower Man Director Brett Leonard’s 360 Videos at SXSW
Immersive technology projects are showing up everywhere. Even in outer space. A project of Time and the always creative Felix and Paul Studios is putting VR cameras on the space station. The cameras went …
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Happy Holidays from Digital Bodies! A very creative 360° holiday video from Breaking Forth posted on the Samsung VR site. Best viewed with Google Cardboard or any 360° video viewer but you can …
We’re not at the point of doing a live-stream in VR from another planet (as Elon Musk promises to deliver). But this NASA 360° video of the control room at the Jet Propulsion Lab …
Read more NASA 360° Video – the moment of InSight’s Mars Landing
Another black hole in VR? Maybe good things come in pairs. In addition to the release of Eliza McNitt’s incredible SPHERES: Songs of SpaceTime on Oculus Rift, scientists have now created an astrophysical model …
The latest Google VR film, “The Journey of Gold”, explores the issue of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As you may know, over five million people have died …
Some things just scream for a virtual experience – or at least a 360° video. And a VR flight in a body-controlled jet engine power suit is one of them. You’ve probably …
Read more An amazing VR flight experience in a body controlled jet suit
Here’s the 360° immersive experience of “Unseen Stars”, GE’s light show at Grand Central Terminal in New York celebrating the achievements of female scientists and engineers. It was scheduled to run September …
Read more 360° Immersive Experience – Celebrating Female Scientists
11/16/2020 Update: Due to the 2020 pandemic, plans for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade are still developing. We do know there will be some kind of 360° broadcast and virtual experience on …
Want to shoot and live-stream your world in virtual reality? Then take a look at the Insta360 Nano, a small clip-on 360 camera that lets you take virtual reality photos and videos with …
The new Vuze VR camera from HumanEyes will fit in your (large) pocket. And it’s dead simple to use, point-and-shoot with no stitching in post-production. With eight HD cameras, you get full 360 …
A stunning 360 video of SpaceX‘s successful rocket landing on a drone ship. SpaceX already released a standard video in mid-April. But you get a whole new perspective from a 360 camera mounted on the deck of …