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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: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 13 2015, @05:52PM
Ah that was based on the polling observation that Any-R wins in November if they're up against Hillary so aside from some kind of viking funeral of pushing her off into the sunset to retire her for good and get her out of the way, there's no way she goes up as nominee. I agree she's not going to tolerate a vp spot.
The other observation is if the last one was about getting a black guy in office this one is about getting a woman and Hilary is un electable and none of the other female candidates stand a chance as nominee in the polls, HOWEVER theres binders full of women on both sides as veep possibilities.
I don't think Sanders really is all that un electable, polls show him more electable than Hillary, so I could see him and Warren. They might be the first -D I've ever voted for.
Meanwhile in Ethanol post I proposed a great female -R governor of OK running mate for Trump, former real estate / mgmt yet plenty of big gov experience... I could see it. The city slicker and the rural resident... it could work...
You know who's missing, both sides, this time around, is anyone with any foreign policy ideas or experience.
As a meta observation "supposedly it would be better not to mix tech and politics" but here we are, and I'm mystified how either The Debate or our little discussion here would benefit by wearing VR headsets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 14 2015, @03:40PM
You know who's missing, both sides, this time around, is anyone with any foreign policy ideas or experience.
I'm personally more concerned with domestic policy than foreign, but I believe one of the candidates was Secretary of State. That job may just involve a little bit of foreign policy experience...