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Have you ever felt the burning desire to be in the same room with Presidential candidates during a 2-3 hour long debate? Now you can be there virtually from the comfort of your own home!
CNN and NextVR will make history on October 13th by hosting the first-ever live stream of a news event in virtual reality, giving viewers a front-row seat to CNN's 2016 election debates.
The network is partnering with virtual reality technology platform NextVR to stream the CNN Democratic Presidential Debate live, in full 3D immersive virtual reality, from Las Vegas, NV.
The live stream follows CNN and NextVR's first virtual reality experience at the CNN Ronald Reagan Debate, where it quietly filmed the highest rated event in CNN history in virtual reality to make it available to users on demand. This experience is now available to users who have a Samsung GearVR virtual reality headset by visiting the NextVR portal in the Oculus Store. Once downloaded, the debate can be seen from the perspective of an audience member at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
The October 13th debate will feature 5 candidates, along with Vice President Biden should he choose to enter the race. You can discuss the debate on my journal.
[Ed's Comment: Discuss the technology in the comments below, but please leave the political discussion for Takyon's journal.]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday October 13 2015, @01:55PM
Once downloaded, the debate can be seen from the perspective of an audience member at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
The only way I'm loading up a VR of that, is if its the plot for a pr0n video. And no I don't want to see Hilary in my pr0n. Just sayin its creative in its own crazy way as quite possibly the last thing I ever would have thought I'd want to see in VR. I mean, the stuff on /b/ would be more appealing, at least on average.
On a slight tangent, with respect to Gorilla Arms, obviously I don't want a Hollywood VR hand controller, that has negative appeal to me. But is there an analogy with neck/back pain and a head mounted display? So I probably don't want a HMD either. With position sensors the same idiot UI designers that brought us 2015 apps and web pages and OSes are going to give us whiplash and concussions, or without sensors a HMD seems a recipe for seasickness. Once you get rid of inferior peripherals, you basically have a cam .torrent as opposed to a real rip of the debate. So why do I want a bad cam of the debate?
Something rather confusing about the marketing stunt is I googled around and the hardware isn't shipping... so they inked a deal years ago and shipping dates have been pushed back such that a couple dev kit owners might be able to use it, thats about it. So that is kinda funny.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @02:07PM
Wait, it can be seen only from one perspective? So that's not VR, that's just 3D. VR would mean you can walk around and watch the event from different places.
What about integrating a feedback mechanism, where you get a virtual gun to shoot down the candidates you don't like? The candidate getting the fewest shots then is declared the winner. ;-)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 13 2015, @02:21PM
Its not even 3-d if they're far enough away that your vision can't do the parallax thing. Which is pretty nearby. The exact word you're probably looking for is panorama...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2015, @02:45PM
As long as it works in 360 degrees so that I could look down at my lap when I invariably start to nod off.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday October 13 2015, @03:37PM
VR would mean you can walk around and watch the event from different places.
For a live event Spherical Video is as good as you're going to get until you come up with a volumetric video camera.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 13 2015, @08:35PM
That's no reason to mislabel it as virtual reality.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday October 13 2015, @08:55PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 14 2015, @01:05PM
Well, in that case I'm going to call my old CRT a 3D TV, because after all it behaves just like the 2D screen in a cinema, where the cinema itself is of course 3D even though the fils it shows are 2D.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday October 14 2015, @02:07PM
VR is about putting you somewhere, not about you flying around like a ghost.
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