Instructed by Robert Hernandez, Immersive Shooter’s editor at large.

This series of video tutorials were created by Prof. Robert Hernandez, Immersive Shooter’s Editor-at-Large, for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, which originally offered the online course in March 2017.
The Knight Center routinely offers diverse courses, so we highly recommend you check them out! We are re-offering the course here with their permission.

Introduction

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Goals

This course aims to provide journalists, media practitioners and the general public with knowledge about virtual reality as it applies to non-fiction storytelling and journalism, ranging from content creation to content consumption. The course will explore the quickly changing landscape of this emerging technology, reviewing current VR Journalism experiences available; looking at the diverse hardware/software to produce experiences; and the new ethical questions this new medium raises.

Objectives

At the end of the course, you will come away with knowledge about:

• How VR is being used in non-fiction, journalistic storytelling.
• The differences between “live-action,” 360 videos compared with CG/3D, interactive “gaming” experiences.
• How the different hardware and software can be used to produce these VR experiences.
• How this new medium changes production, distribution and consumption.
• How VR raises new ethical questions non-fiction storytellers need to keep in mind.