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Immersive Journalism

ONA19

Deconstructing VR/AR: Story Design for Effective User Immersion

  • Gabriela Brenes
  • María Laura Ruggiero

A hands-on workshop exploring the keys to crafting immersive narratives. Learn how to combine storytelling elements, including sound, color and engagement, to reinforce...

ONA19

Ethics in Augmented Reality

  • Mia Tramz
  • Brooke Van Dam
  • Jeremy Gilbert
  • Moderated by Steven Johnson

As augmented reality becomes more commonplace in newsroom storytelling, questions about how to ethically capture and recreate places, objects or events gain salience. Join this...

ONA19

New Frontiers in Visual Storytelling: Telling Stories with Emerging Tech

  • Matt MacVey
  • Clàudia Prat

This immersive session will demonstrate hands-on tools for working in 360, 3D and AR, cover new-batch software and hardware making immersive storytelling accessible to every field...

ONA19

VR in Paradise: Behind the Scenes on a Radioactive Atoll

  • Mika Makelainen
  • Päivi Koskinen

Learn how to film with high-tech cameras in a remote, demanding and extreme location with this immersive look at the Finnish Broadcasting Company’s groundbreaking VR project...

ONA18

360 Video as a Reporting Tool: How and When to Break News with Immersive Video

  • Veda Shastri

Using 360 video and virtual reality is, plainly, different from flat video coverage, with production time, editing and file size challenges, among others. It is also an...

ONA18

Augmented Reality is Your Next Immersive Content Experiment

Virtual reality journalism has seen challenges in reaching a mass audience, offering possibilities in immersive storytelling but requiring additional hardware. Augmented reality,...

ONA17

Journalism 360: Creating Immersive Content on a Shoestring Budget

  • Nathan Griffiths
  • Lakshmi Sarah
  • Robert Hernandez
  • Moderated by Scott Mayerowitz

Whether you're a smaller team interesting in testing out 360 video, or a larger newsroom looking for ways to scale up, we'll show you creative ways to create content on...

Dublin17

Virtual Reality and Immersive Video from the Journalism 360 Project

  • Jessica Lauretti
  • Thomas Seymat

Google Cardboard and similar devices have been around for a few years now, and headsets like the Oculus Rift, Sony Playstation VR and HTC Vive have recently hit the market....

ONA16

Hype or Here: When Should I Use 360/VR in My Storytelling?

  • Jessica Lauretti
  • Jamie Pallot
  • Jenna Pirog

Dozens of newsrooms have gotten into 360 video / virtual reality reporting since ONA15, so it’s time to explore the question of when and where it makes sense to use these...