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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JOVRNALISM app available now
Hell and High Water VR
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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JOVRNALISM logos
Launching the summer of May 2015, JOVRNALISM has since become a registered trademark.
Here is a collection of some JOVRNALISM logos:
Contact Prof. Robert Hernandez [ r . hernandez @ usc . edu ] for any questions.
Preview: Hell and High Water VR
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.
What we learned shooting VR video
Kaitlyn Mullin, one of the Jovrnalism students, wrote this piece for Nieman Lab (more…)
Unmasking Lucha Libre in VR
Mexico’s most iconic Lucha Libre luchadores bring the popular sport to Los Angeles
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Roller Derby: Female power in 360º
Experience the Angel City Derby Girls’ in 360
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Field Stories: CicLAvia in VR
We took two 360 rigs to document the event that kicks out cars and let’s cyclists takeover downtown LA
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Our Experience With Data VR: A Semester In Review
What does data journalism look like in virtual reality? This is one of the questions that the JOVRNALISM team chose to explore this past semester, resulting in a 3D interactive data journalism story we created using Unity.
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Our first project: VR Tour of Wallis Annenberg Hall
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.