ABC News Adds VR

ABC News Brings Virtual Reality to Its Reporting

Brian Steinberg | September 16, 2015

ABC News correspondents have always journeyed to far-away places and long-forgotten corners of the world, Now they’ll be able to make their viewers feel as if they are truly along for the ride.

Showing Google Cardboard VR Reader. Source: http://www.thevideoink.com/news/abc-news-and-jaunt-vr-launch-virtual-reality-content-hub/#.VfrYS99VhBc

The news unit intends to offer viewers a different kind of look at the places to which reporters travel – a 360-degree shot made possible through virtual reality. 

<more at http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/abc-news-virtual-reality-syria-1201594907/; related link: http://abc7.com/news/abc-news-vr-inside-syria/987172/ (ABC News VR: Inside Syria. September 16, 2015) 
and http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9336647/abc-news-virtual-reality-syria (ABC News launches VR experience to give viewers a 360-degree tour of Syria's capital. September 16, 2015)>