A YouTube Introduction to 360-Degree Video and Virtual Reality

“360 is a video format that unlike traditional video, is capturing in full 360, so full spherical,” commented Kurt Wilms, Senior Product Manager at YouTube. “When we talk about 360 at YouTube, we’re talking about filming content and viewing content…

YouTube Adds Spatial Audio For 360-Degree Videos

Google announced the launch of spatial audio for on-demand YouTube videos giving depth and distance to sound the way it has done with video with 360-degree videos. This appears to be the next step in the video service’s foray into…

Facebook 360-Degree Videos Expand To Ads, iOS, Get Resource Site

Back in March, Facebook announced 360-degree videos before launching them in September. Much like 360-degree videos on YouTube, the videos give the user a virtual reality-like experience letting them view anything in the camera’s field of vision within the video…

360-Degree Video Hits Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg announced this at f8 back in March, so this isn’t a huge surprise. But today’s the day, folks – 360-degree videos are coming to your news feed. “Our goal at Facebook is to connect you with the people…

Check Out YouTube’s Cool New 360-Degree Videos

There’s been talk of 360-degree videos coming to YouTube for a while now, but on Friday, the company began to offer them to the world, and I have to say, it’s pretty awesome. First, let’s just get right to the…