Google’s plan to establish a new immersive media format on YouTube and beyond has hit a roadblock: VR180, the stereoscopic video format that Google launched with big fanfare in 2017, has lost some of ...

VidCon, the largest conference for online video creators, took place this week, and YouTube celebrated by announcing a new VR format. YouTube has supported VR and 360-degree video for some time, but ...

Virtual reality is awesome, as anyone who has strapped on a headset can attest. But getting the right equipment, like 360-degree cameras, and setting up the shots necessary to create true, immersive ...

Virtual reality (VR) is undeniably cool, but think about just how much of the experience is wasted. Total immersion requires a complete sphere of video ("360"), but humans can only see roughly half of ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Introduced at VidCon 2017 last June, Google’s VR180 video and photo ...

Just before I/O 2018, Google and Lenovo launched the first VR180 point-and-shoot with the Mirage Camera, while more devices are coming soon. The new format aims to be more realistic than 360° footage ...

YouTube is showing off a brand new file format for creators who want to check out VR but are intimidated by taking the full plunge with all the crazy hardware and production issues. It’s called VR180, ...

As virtual reality (VR) gets more and more popular, the ways in which such content can be captured and experienced begins to change. You may think that all VR experiences are fully immersive ...

Just ahead of Google’s big developer conference next week, Google I/O, the company has rolled out a new mobile app for its VR180 point-and-shoot cameras, allowing users to set up their device, view ...

360-degree video was heralded as the next big thing in multimedia but the truth is, it hasn't caught on quite as quickly as some had hoped. While some of the reluctance has to do with the fact that ...

Together with its news that 1.5 billion logged in viewers visit YouTube every single month, the company has announced a new video format called VR180 at VidCon, which YouTube hopes will make ...

Move over, 360 videos — there is a new video format in town. On Thursday, YouTube launched VR180, a 3D virtual reality format with a 180-degree perspective. “VR180 video focuses on what’s in front of ...