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Enjoy your personal concert with VR videos on YouTube
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Any music fan will tell you, there’s nothing better than seeing your favorite band live. But if you’re one of the millions of people who can’t make it to a show, YouTube is giving you the next best thing. We’re working with some amazing artists to bring you live performances and music videos in VR.
And today Gorillaz – hailed by “The Guinness Book Of World Records” as the planet’s Most Successful Virtual Act – have announced their return with the release of a
new video
directed by Jamie Hewlett, featuring four tracks from their highly anticipated forthcoming album “Humanz.” The epic six-minute animated film - titled “Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)” - provides an extraordinary cutting-edge VR experience to include the track “Saturnz Barz” in full, plus highlights of “Ascension,” “Andromeda” and “We Got The Power.” You can check it out
here
fresh from the oven.
With these new immersive experiences, you can transport yourself to top music festivals and killer concerts, without having to deal with the crowds. This weekend, you can check out
Ultra Music Festival
live, with a set from Hardwell live streaming in 360 degrees. And you can already experience highlights from
Coachella
on YouTube, without having to bear the heat of the desert.
We've also been working with some of your favorite artists to experiment with new ways to tell the story behind their songs and allow you to be immersed in the video. Sit next to Sampha on the piano bench while he performs “
(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano
.” Step into Hunter Hayes’ recording studio as he builds each musical component of his current single, “
Yesterday’s Song
.” Check out Young The Giant’s latest single, “
Silvertongue
,” as though you were in the audience. Watch The Naked & Famous official music video for “
Higher
” shot at the YouTube Space LA. And you can use VR to travel behind the scenes, too. Check out
Florida Georgia Line
as they shoot “May We All” at the Tennessee National Raceway in Hohenwald.
You can watch these videos using the YouTube VR app available on
Daydream
or with Google Cardboard. If you don’t have a headset, don’t worry, you can still get the 360-degree video experience on your mobile phone or desktop. It’ll be like you’re virtually there with your favorite band.
Vivien Lewit, Global Head Artist Relations, recently watched "
The Range - Florida (Official 360° Video)
."
Step into the games with new VR videos
Friday, March 10, 2017
YouTube’s become a global destination for people who love watching gaming videos. And we want to take gamers’ viewing experience a step further by exploring how VR videos can put them right at the center of the action. That’s why we partnered with gaming creators and publishers to experiment with the production of 360 and VR videos. What’s come out of those experiments, from “
League of Legends
” to “
Minecraft
,” was pretty exciting.
From Let's Play to trailers, there’s a really wide range of gaming content on YouTube, and a lot of these different style videos are now also becoming available in VR. You can check out gameplay from
global creators
as well as gaming-themed live action videos celebrating games like “
Call of Duty
.”
Game publishers are also getting involved in VR gaming videos in a big way, from the immensely popular “
Clash of Clans
” 360-degree video by Supercell to
documentaries
uploaded by “World of Tanks” publisher Wargaming. Even eSports organizations are producing content for VR, uploading 360-degree content from top events like the “League of Legends”
World Championship Finals
.
But what if you just want to chill and watch some gaming-themed entertainment content? We got you covered with videos ranging from the classic “
Red vs. Blue
” series to Stampy’s “
Wonder Quest
.”
To give you a taste of gaming experience in VR, check out the playlist above for some of our favorite videos so far. It’s a good cross section of the kind of gaming videos we offer in VR, many of which can make you feel like you’re standing inside the game itself. You can watch these videos using the YouTube VR app available on
Daydream
or with Google Cardboard. If you don’t have a headset, don’t worry, you can still get the 360-degree video experience on your mobile phone or desktop.
Ryan Wyatt, Head of Gaming Content, recently watched “
Clash of Clans: Hog Rider 360°
.”
YouTube presses play on virtual reality
Thursday, November 5, 2015
If we’ve learned anything in the past 10+ years at YouTube it’s that capturing and sharing videos is a great way to bring people there with you—whether “there” is an
Icelandic glacier
, a
special performance
by violinist Tim Fain, or just a friend’s birthday party.
Virtual reality (VR) makes the experience of being there even more awesome and immersive, so today we’re bringing two new VR features to YouTube’s Android app. All you need is your current phone, and a
Google Cardboard
viewer.
First, YouTube now supports
VR video
—a brand new kind of video that makes you feel like you’re actually there. Using the
same
tricks
that we humans use to see the world, VR video gives you a sense of depth as you look around in every direction. Near things look near, far things look far. So if you were excited about
360° videos
, this is pretty freakin’ cool.
To give it a try just find a VR video on YouTube—like the
Hunger Games Experience
or
TOMS Shoes Giving Trip
—tap the new Cardboard icon, drop your phone into your Cardboard viewer, and you’re off! If you’re a creator, you can also check out technologies like
Jump
to capture and share your own VR videos.
Check out this and more VR videos here
Our second bit of news is for the universe of existing YouTube content. And that’s the fact that you can now watch any video using Google Cardboard, and experience a kind of virtual movie theater. Just select the new “Cardboard” option from the watch page menu, drop your phone into your viewer, and you’re done. You’ll now have the largest VR content library right at your fingertips.
Both of today’s updates make it easier to be there. In some cases, really there there. So download the new YouTube app from
Google Play
, and get going.
Kurt Wilms, Senior Product Manager, YouTube VR recently watched “
Waves of Grace
”, Sanjeev Verma, YouTube Product Manager, recently watched “
LA Phil: The Orchestra VR Video Experience
” and Husain Bengali, Product Manager, Jump recently watched “
Apollo 11 moon landing
.
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