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Al Jazeera Debuts First VR Documentary ‘I Am Rohingya’

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Contrast VR, Al Jazeera Media Network’s immersive studio, has completed its first VR documentary, I Am Rohingya. Jamalida Begum is a Rohingya Muslim woman living at the camp after fleeing violence in her native Myanmar. “I I want to talk to you,” she says, “I hope you can tell others my story.”.

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Top 8 Media Using 360° Videos for Immersive News Stories

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Immersive media is a collective term that incorporates 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and volumetric capture (includes both CGI and 3-D scanning). The Times’ arrangement with Samsung will wrap up at the end of 2017, and the Times will continue to produce 360-degree videos on a smaller scale after.