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CNN Launches New Immersive Journalism Initiative, CNNVR

Road to VR

Capturing major news events in 360 video, the global team will produce weekly virtual reality experiences and live streams. The CNNVR app has been available on Google’s Daydream VR platform since its November launch last year, and is now publishing content to the Samsung VR app on Gear VR and Oculus Video app on Rift too.

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Why VR Will Change The Way We Absorb The News

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Project Syria , the refugee piece that we made for the World Economic Forum, is now up on Steam (where it’s been getting a lot of racist, anti-immigrant feedback, fyi.) I know they’re already investing in 360° video, but do you see them opening their own departments and sections and working in this medium on their own?

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Getting — and Keeping — Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

The Click Effect is a 360 video — it’s about a six minute piece from 2015, won a lot of awards — that showcased one of the first full underwater 360 VR diving experiences with dolphins, and talking about the clicking noise that a dolphin will make to communicate. And even for marketers, right?

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Getting -- and Keeping -- Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

The Click Effect is a 360 video -- it's about a six minute piece from 2015, won a lot of awards -- that showcased one of the first full underwater 360 VR diving experiences with dolphins, and talking about the clicking noise that a dolphin will make to communicate. And even for marketers, right? Otherwise, you've lost them.

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Getting — and Keeping — Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

The Click Effect is a 360 video — it’s about a six minute piece from 2015, won a lot of awards — that showcased one of the first full underwater 360 VR diving experiences with dolphins, and talking about the clicking noise that a dolphin will make to communicate. And even for marketers, right?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Google Daydream has exclusive access to YouTube’s considerable 360 video library (although admittedly curation could be better) as well as its massive 2D video archive. SAMSUNG AND VICE PARTNER FOR 360 DOC RE: SYRIA. GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. SURVEY SAYS BRITISH WOMEN WANT VR SEX.

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CNN Launches VR Journalism Unit and Platform

VRScout

The CNNVR 360° video platform is available on mobile apps and web. Following in the footsteps of the New York Times’ launch of their 360° video platform, The Daily 360 , CNN has announced a new immersive journalism unit and platform of their own.

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