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Immersive Journalism

ONA16

Journalistic Standards in a Virtual World

  • Ben Kreimer
  • Kelly McBride
  • Andrew Metz
  • Moderated by Sarah Hill

As VR expands into newsrooms, it’s time, as former AP Standards Editor Tom Kent put it in a recent Medium post, for an ethical reality check: “How real is virtual reality...

ONA16

Quick Guide to Your Basic 360 / VR Toolkit

  • Shaheryar Popalzai
  • Kevin Tsukii
  • Nicholas Whitaker
  • Lakshmi Sarah

The number of tools for making 360 video and virtual reality projects has exploded over the past year or two. We’ll do a quick overview of affordable cameras, audio equipment...

ONA16

VR Technical Session: Spatialized Audio Design

  • Nick LaMartina

Audio design remains one of the trickiest aspects to creating a good virtual or mixed reality piece. One of the leading audio producers experimenting with this new format, Nick...

ONA16

VR Technical Town Hall

  • Robert Hernandez

If you’ve been through the process of making your first VR piece, this Town Hall is for you. It’s a chance to openly discuss best practices, tools, current and upcoming gear...

ONA16

VR Technical Workshop: Introduction to Unity

  • Daniel Pacheco

True virtual reality is more than 360 video; it also contains computer-designed graphic elements. We’ll do a quick crash course on the Unity game engine, one of the most common...

ONA15

Create Your Own Virtual Reality Journalism

  • Dan Pacheco
  • Nonny Anna Maria de la Pena
  • Ray Soto

With the upcoming introduction of consumer products like the Oculus Rift, VR is on the cusp of emerging as its own unique media form — leading to perhaps another disruption in...

ONA15

Virtual Reality in a Material World

  • Nonny Anna Maria de la Pena
  • Aaron Luber
  • Ray Soto
  • Thomas Wallner
  • Moderated by Robert Hernandez

Over the past three years, VR journalism has proven it can create compelling, immersive stories unlike anything our communities can experience online. We’ve assembled some of...