360-Degree Video Creation – Strategies to Consider

Brillhart (2015b) , a principal 360-degree filmmaker at Google, reasons that one of the most important questions that must be taken into account when creating 360-degree videos it is the viewers’ identity. From the first moment users try a VR headset, they are transported a new place where the main questions…
360-degree Video Creation – Hardware and Software

Hardware for 360-Degree Video Creation To derive overall tendencies, available cameras for 360-degree content production can be clustered into three sections: budget cameras, often used by beginners, middle range cameras for ambitious amateurs and high-priced ones that are used by professional agencies or filmmakers. Beginners’ cameras These cameras are characterized…
360-Degree Video Creation – An Overview
VR in tourism from a business point of view – from gimmick to application
Immersed in VR 2.0

This article is from our guest-blogger IOANA ALEXANDRA MEREUTA. She is a VR product development assistant for patients in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Generally, the most common thought about virtual reality, VR, technology starts with the act of putting the glasses on. However, the whole experience goes beyond expectations. It is simply guided…
Booking via VR?

Amadeus, one of the big Global-Distribution-Systems (GDS), tries to look deep into the future. It’s subsidary company Navitaire introduced the first “Virtual Reality Search and Booking Experience”. The user interacts with VR-glasses and special gloves and selects the desired destination on a virtual globe. Users can search for flights, car-rentals…
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Challenge

Call for Submission – Applying VR and AR to the real world. Win 5,000 Euros and be promoted by international Venture Capital experts and coaches in individual sessions Salzburg University of Applied Sciences invites you to submit your project proposals for VR and AR projects for the first Virtual Reality…
Try before you buy with Expedia

It is nothing new anymore that destinations and hotels as well as tour operators and travel agencies are using Virtual Reality to showcase their offers. Most content is 360° content that allows only limited interaction and therefore restricted immersion. An exceptions is Marriott’s Teleporter that enabled an easier immersion by the provision of…
Measuring the Media Effects of a Tourism-Related VR Experience Using Biophysical Data
Exploring the effects of Virtual Reality is an upcoming topic of research (Guttentag, 2010). Traditional research methods, such as user tests on which pre-post-test questionnaires are administered to viewers of VR, can be used to investigate the effects of VR media. That is, what people understand of the content displayed…