Google today launched Tour Creator, a web-based tool that lets you easily build a VR ‘tour’ using imagery from Google Street View and even your own 360 photos. The company released the tool as a part ...

YouTube is providing creators of virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree videos with a new specialized metric called heatmaps that show where viewers are looking at the video content and how long they are ...

No matter how hard tech companies try, it's difficult to escape the fact that virtual reality just isn't that accessible. Most VR headsets are expensive and clunky, and even if you do have one, there ...

Google may have a few VR projects lined up across hardware, but for now one of its biggest selling points for mobile VR is YouTube. Today, YouTube announced that it’s bringing heat map analytics to ...

Scientists have developed a quick and easy approach for capturing 360° VR photography without using expensive specialist cameras. The system uses a commercially available 360° camera on a rotating ...

Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley thinks virtual reality (VR) hasn’t taken off yet because the platform doesn’t have a “killer app”. This observation comes as the VR market continues to struggle despite ...

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Following mobile, all things video represents the next frontier for Facebook in boosting figures for everything from user growth to content sharing to advertising returns. The social media unveiled a ...

There's no doubting the ability of VR to create immersive experiences for gaming and other forms of entertainment. However, Oculus wants to make sure nonprofit organizations and students have the ...

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Scientists at the University of Bath have developed a quick and easy approach for capturing 360° VR photography without using expensive specialist cameras. The system uses a commercially available ...