Global Editors Network: VR is here to stay. What’s next for journalism?
“VR is no longer just for games and films,” says Gen Summit 2017’s description of its VR panel. We couldn’t agree more. Asking ourselves how we can use virtual reality…
Q&A: Brittany Peterson shares McClatchy’s 360 video production workflow for breaking news
Very few newsrooms think of 360 as a medium that lends itself to quick-turn stories. There are syncing and stitching issues, massive files to transfer and render, and special plugins…
Q&A: RT’s Edward Chizhikov talks 360 cameras in space, editing across platforms + more
Edward Chizhikov is the head of the RT360 department at Russia Today. Although he joined RT in 2008, he’s spent the last one and half year leading the news organization’s…
Q&A: Catherine Allen on moral panic and the ethics of VR, and story doing versus storytelling
When people put on a headset to watch the experiences we’ve created for them, it’s sort of like entering a bubble. They see only what we want them to see,…
Q&A: VR storyteller Sarah Hill talks top 360 gear, hide & seek strategies, and balancing today’s media diet
This week, Immersive Shooter sat down with Sarah Hill, the CEO and Chief Storyteller at StoryUP, to talk about StoryUP’s big goal of balancing today’s media diet, what she’s learned…
Is 360 the next 3D TV? Six content creators weigh in at NAB 2017
During our live show at NAB 2017, we squeezed six amazing VR and 360 content producers into the Teradek cube to talk about the biggest challenges they’re facing and answer…
Eric Cheng talks Facebook’s volumetric video cameras, the x24 and x6
Before NAB 2017, I was a 6DoF skeptic. I didn’t see much value in being able to lean a few inches in any given direction—that is, until I actually experienced…
Celine Tricart explains when 3D 360 video is worth the extra effort
There may be a handful of new 3D-capable 360 cameras entering the market this summer, but that doesn’t mean the world is completely ready for stereoscopic 360 video quite yet.…
Radiant Images’ Michael Mansouri shares his vision of the future of 360 video
Immersive Shooter’s Editor-At-Large Robert Hernandez likes to call Michael Mansouri the “Willy Wonka” of film innovation. Michael, who is the co-founder of Radiant Images, is an interesting hybrid in the…
Q&A with Laura Hertzfeld on Journalism 360’s $250,000 grants and growing the medium
Journalism 360 is a joint initiative of the Online News Association, the Knight Foundation and Google News Lab that aims to increase the industry’s understanding around immersive storytelling and provide…
How to live stream 360 video right: 3 experts weigh in at NAB 2017
Going live in 360 doesn’t have to be a hassle. Look at our own most recent live setup from Mojocon 2017. High tech, right? With the Insta360 Air, a smartphone,…
Q&A with Thomas Seymat about Euronews’ 360 French election coverage
Leading up to France’s election, Euronews set out to produce a nine-part series of intimate personal portraits with voters across France and its territories. We sat down with Euronews’ VR…