The app’s UI pops up in front of the current playing video, and a toolbar along the top has tabs for Home, 360 Video, Subscriptions, and Accounts.
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With just hours to go for the most awaited Google IO 2016, Google has surprised the Apple community by what is considered a welcome-move by fellow iOS users.
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This ability has been there for Android users since November past year, and YouTube has finally introduced it for iPhone users as well. iPhone users will now be able to slip in their iPhones into the Cardboard slot and enjoy the 3D immersive experience.
Google plans to release in the fall a version of its YouTube app designed for virtual reality, allowing you to strap on a head-mounted display to view both conventional clips and 360-degree videos that let you swivel your head around for a more immersive experience.
“We’re creating the YouTube VR app to provide an easier, more immersive way to find and experience virtual reality content on YouTube”. Additionally, YouTube is collaborating with the NBA, BuzzFeed, and Tastemade to deliver all new experiences to VR users.
“Instead of having an admittedly narrow [virtual reality] audience that we have today, you actually have the opportunity to reach a much broader audience”, says Jamie Byrne, a director in YouTube’s creators program. Case in point: The number of VR uploads to YouTube is doubling every three months right now. Beginning today, YouTube will offer its Jump program – consisting of a 16-camera rig and software that captures high-resolution 360-degree videos in 3D – to makers at its production Spaces in Los Angeles and NY.
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YouTube is now working with several publications to build 360-degree videos with the help of the JUMP program. “I can see a world where VR video is the future and everyone’s creating video like this”, Wilms said, but cautioning that we’re still in the early days.
