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posted by CoolHand on Monday June 19 2017, @04:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-look-back dept.

YouTube's revealed the secret to making an engaging virtual reality video: put the best parts right in front of the audience so they don't have to move their heads.

Google's video vault offers that advice on the basis of heat maps it's created based on analysis of where VR viewers point their heads while wearing VR goggles. There's just such a heat map at the top of this story (or here for m.reg readers) and a bigger one here.

The many heat maps YouTube has made lead it to suggest that VR video creators "Focus on what's in front of you: The defining feature of a 360-degree video is that it allows you to freely look around in any direction, but surprisingly, people spent 75% of their time within the front 90 degrees of a video. So don't forget to spend significant time on what's in front of the viewer."

YouTube also advises that "for many of the most popular VR videos, people viewed more of the full 360-degree space with almost 20% of views actually being behind them." Which sounds to El Reg like VR viewers are either staring straight ahead, or looking over their shoulders with very little time being devoted to sideways glances.

A video channel wants people to treat VR like video. Hmmm. Perhaps the answer to their question is in the question: people should be considered "participants" instead of an "audience."


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 19 2017, @08:31PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 19 2017, @08:31PM (#528130)

    virtual tours

    I suspect this is where its gonna be at.

    The problem legacy TV has is progressive politics repels pretty much everyone making it impossible to produce something not-leftist while nobody non-leftist wants to watch.

    The politics of visiting the grand canyon are, so far, tolerable and profitable.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 19 2017, @08:43PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday June 19 2017, @08:43PM (#528137) Journal

    The politics of visiting the grand canyon are, so far, tolerable and profitable.

    I think I can think of a political angle or two for the grand canyon [wikipedia.org].

    The federal government administrators who manage park resources face many challenges. These include issues related to the recent reintroduction into the wild of the highly endangered California condor, air tour overflight noise levels, water rights disputes with various tribal reservations that border the park, and forest fire management. Federal officials started a flood in the Grand Canyon in hopes of restoring its ecosystem on March 5, 2008. The canyon's ecosystem was permanently changed after the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in 1963.

    Between 2003 and 2011, 2,215 mining claims had been requested that are adjacent to the canyon, including claims for uranium mines. Mining has been suspended since 2009, when U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar withdrew 1 million acres (4,000 km2) from the permitting process, pending assessment of the environmental impact of mining. Critics of the mines are concerned that, once mined, the uranium will leach into the water of the Colorado River and contaminate the water supply for up to 18 million people. Salazar's so-called "Northern Arizona Withdrawal" is a 20-year moratorium on new mines, but allows existing mines to continue. In 2012, the federal government stopped new mines in the area, which was upheld by the U.S. District Court for Arizona in 2014, but appealed by the National Mining Association, joined by the state of Arizona under Attorney General Mark Brnovich as well as Utah, Montana and Nevada. National Mining Association v. Jewell is pending before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as of September 2015.

    Here's a 360 video of the grand canyon btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOajv_P6UQE [youtube.com]

    One related video shows a tornado. Let's slap 360 degree canyons cameras on the vans of all storm chasers.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday June 19 2017, @10:01PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday June 19 2017, @10:01PM (#528175) Journal

    making it impossible to produce something not-leftist while nobody non-leftist wants to watch.

    Come, now. Surely you can watch Left Behind and its sequels, Happy Days, Highway to Heaven, and the Lawrence Welk Show. There's plenty of conservative-friendly fare if you're willing to look and not insist that liberal fare not exist at all at the same time.

    Or maybe this is a business opportunity: create an all-torture channel, or a comedy channel that does nothing but make fun of minorities (not sure which way your conservatism tends).

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:34AM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:34AM (#528356) Journal

    Virtual tour of real estate probably is a market.
    Maybe grocery shopping after Amazon bolts all the doors at whole foods. And maybe you can ride along with your groceries when they start flying drones off the roof of all the whole foods stores.

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