I am happy to announce that JOVRNALISM will be covering the presidential inauguration in 360, in a collaboration with the New York Times, NPR and RYOT.
Regardless of what side of history someone may find themselves on, a journalist’s job is to capture that history. And with 360 cameras, we’ll be capturing all sides.
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The Desert Sun and JOVRNALISM students kicked off the spring semester together.
As the dust begins to settle on the Fall 2016 semester, I wanted to post a preview toward what is coming in the new year.
My J489 class is being offered again and this time we are partnering with The Desert Sun, in Palm Springs. Unlike past partnerships, we are working on a brand new journalistic project together from the very beginning, rather than working with a news organization’s existing editorial content.
The Executive Editor, Greg Burton, reached out earlier this year and pitched the idea of working together in a completely integrated way. And, as important, he had a hell of a story.
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We are excited to announce that we have launched a VR-optimized mobile app that contains all our current and past immersive work.
It is now available for iOS and Android:
Download it, try it out and send us feedback.
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NOTE: The best way to experience these experiences is via our iOS / Android app.
After months of work, the immersive project based on ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s investigation into the vulnerability of the Houston Ship Channel is now live: Hell and High Water VR.
As part of a USC Annenberg hackathon-style class, JOVRNALISM students went down to the Houston area for Spring Break 2016 to conduct original reporting and produce a series of immersive experiences based on the investigation.
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It’s early days for virtual reality, let alone VR Journalism, so the distribution method is a bit of a challenge.
You can find our immersive stories in a variety of location.
First and foremost, we recommend viewing our stories via our JOVRNALISM app. The video quality is much higher than the other platforms.
Download the iOS app here: http://bit.ly/jovrnalism-ios Android app is here: http://bit.ly/jovrnalism-android
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Get a preview into the current project the Jovrnalism crew is working on through this video produced by Melody Jiang:
A group of USC students traveled to Houston over spring break to shoot a virtual reality experience to accompany a ProPublica and The Texas Tribune project called Hell and High Water, which is an investigative piece on what a hurricane could do to the city.
Kaitlyn Mullin, one of the Jovrnalism students, wrote this piece for Nieman Lab (more…)
To prepare for our semester long hackathon creating virtual reality experiences for journalism, we did a test project with our GoPro rig to make a 360 VR tour of USC Annenberg’s new building Wallis Annenberg Hall.
The piece, originally posted on YouTube, was featured of the site’s 360 page and generated nearly 50,000 views.
Go here via your phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddcLIp39G5Q
You can also experience the project via the Vrideo platform, which works on desktop, Android and iOS.
After three weeks of introductions, trying VR experiences, and learning from the experts, the class was ready to tackle our first project: a virtual reality tour of Wallis Annenberg Hall.
Professor Robert Hernandez presented us with the task of creating a VR tour of the new Wallis Annenberg Hall, led by Annenberg‘s leaders, to be shown at 2015 Online News Association conference in Los Angeles.
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360 class selfie with Ricoh Theta:
Meet my #VRJournalism class. #Jovrnalism – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA