YouTube these days mentioned it’s adding virtual reality functionality to its Android app.

In a blog submit, YouTube wrote that it is now conceivable to watch VR videos—which is able to provide an immersive, 360-degree view of a wide range of content material—via the Android app. All that is required is an Android phone and a Google Cardboard viewer.

“YouTube now helps VR video—a model new kind of video that makes you’re feeling such as you’re actually there,” the Google-owned company wrote within the put up. “using the identical methods that we humans use to peer the sector, VR video provides you a sense of depth as you go searching in every route. near things seem to be near, far things look some distance. So in case you had been enthusiastic about 360-degree movies, that is pretty freakin’ cool.”

so far, the choice of YouTube 360 movies remains to be quite small. They include issues like a spherical tour of NY city, a video about Apollo 11, and even a unique VR trailer for the starvation video games.

It’s also now conceivable to look at any YouTube video the use of Google Cardboard. in keeping with YouTube’s weblog put up, users can choose the new “Cardboard” possibility from the watch web page menu, drop their smartphones into the cardboard viewer, and watch. “You’ll now have the biggest VR content material library proper at your fingertips,” consistent with the submit.

then again, whereas the masses of thousands and thousands of YouTube movies are actually watchable the use of Cardboard—growing what the company known as a “digital movie theater”—handiest a tiny fraction of that content material used to be specifically created for VR viewers within the #360Video library.

still, increasingly companies are turning to VR video. nowadays, for example, both the related Press and the new York occasions launched VR journalism tasks.

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