To prepare for our semester long hackathon creating virtual reality experiences for journalism, we did a test project with our GoPro rig to make a 360 VR tour of USC Annenberg’s new building Wallis Annenberg Hall.
The piece, originally posted on YouTube, was featured of the site’s 360 page and generated nearly 50,000 views.
Go here via your phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddcLIp39G5Q
You can also experience the project via the Vrideo platform, which works on desktop, Android and iOS.
After three weeks of introductions, trying VR experiences, and learning from the experts, the class was ready to tackle our first project: a virtual reality tour of Wallis Annenberg Hall.
Professor Robert Hernandez presented us with the task of creating a VR tour of the new Wallis Annenberg Hall, led by Annenberg‘s leaders, to be shown at 2015 Online News Association conference in Los Angeles.
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360 class selfie with Ricoh Theta:
Meet my #VRJournalism class. #Jovrnalism – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
USC students have started school again, and our class is taking off at last. While we met a couple of times during the Spring semester, we were all really excited to meet the whole VR Journalism team and get to know each other better. As the class went around introducing each other, we realized we were quite a diverse group: a variety of majors, nationalities, backgrounds, and skills. This diversity will definitely help us create a project that defines journalism for VR.
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