YouTube VR
‘YouTube VR’ Finally Comes to Oculus Go, Now Available on Oculus Store
Gear VR users have had access to YouTube's VR app since July, but now it's Oculus Go's turn, as Oculus' standalone VR headset is finally getting the long-awaited YouTube VR app. It's now available for free on the Oculus Store,...
Google’s ‘YouTube VR’ App is Coming to Oculus Go Soon
Oculus and Google are finally bringing the official YouTube VR app to the Oculus Store for Oculus Go soon. Announced previously for Gear VR back at Google's developer conference, the YouTube VR app has only been available for a select...
YouTube VR Creator Lab to Mentor and Fund Creators up to $40K
On August 7th 2017, YouTube Space LA hosts the beginning of the VR Creator Lab, a 3-month program to assist content creators in producing "original and experimental" 360-degree videos. Along with regular mentoring and advanced education from leading VR...
YouTube Now Offering Heatmaps for 360 Video Analytics
Spherical YouTube videos with over 1,000 views now include ‘360° Heatmaps’ within the Analytics section of the Creator Studio. The new feature provides a visual representation of low to high attention areas of the video, helping to inform content...
YouTube VR Wants to Find the Next Billion Dollar Genre That Hasn’t Been Created Yet
At Sundance this year, I had a chance to catch up with a couple of representatives from Google to talk about what's happening on the YouTube VR platform with 360 videos. I talked with Jamie Byrne, YouTube's Director of...
New YouTube VR App is Completely Re-designed for Daydream
YouTube has launched a new app to coincide with today's Daydream launch, one that's built for virtual reality headsets and designed from the ground up to work with Google's 'next gen' mobile VR platform.
Immersive video and VR film has...
Google Wants Established YouTubers to Make VR Video With Jump 360 Rig
Google is delivering a dedicated VR YouTube app in their newly announced Daydream platform. Along with it, the company is making sure to give users a few reasons to jump head first into the app when it launches by encouraging...
Early Jaunt VP Scott Broock Leaves to Join YouTube as ‘Global VR Evangelist’
Scott Broock, one of Jaunt's earliest members, has left the company to join as YouTube's 'Global VR Evangelist'.
Scott Broock, former Jaunt VP of Content, was one of the earliest members of the company, a virtual reality firm producing hardware,...
Watch the first 6 Google ‘Jump’ VR Videos
Google's interest in VR has been steadily growing, reaching a recent climax back in May during the company's annual 'I/O 2015' conference where they announced a slew of new VR initiatives including 'Jump' for VR video.
Jump is Google's VR...
Now Watch Any 3D 360 YouTube Video on Google Cardboard
YouTube today announced that on top of its support for monscopic 360 video that Google Cardboard owners will now be able to view stereoscopic 360-degree video as well any YouTube video in virtual reality just by toggling a built-in 'theater mode'.
YouTube...
YouTube Confirms Stereo 3D 360 Video Support Coming ‘Soon’
After recently adding support for 360 degree videos to YouTube, the company now says that 360 + stereoscopic 3D video support is on the way. The streaming service currently supports 360 or 3D videos, but not both together.
Google's tentative toe...