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— VRARA New York City (@thevraraNYC) October 27, 2016
The VR/AR Association partnered with USA TODAY NETWORK for this event in NYC that attracted the best minds in Media, Publishing, Journalism, and VR from the likes of USA TODAY NETWORK, Facebook, Google, New York Times, United Nations, among others.
Below is a video of the USA TODAY NETWORK team talking about their VR app, VRTUALLY THERE, and their experiences.
The discussions were of course around VR Stories, and specifics included content creation and consumption by anyone, viewed on any headset. Right now, you can't watch Facebook 360 video on Google's headsets, nor vice versa, can't watch Google's YouTube's 360 videos on Facebook. Where is the interoperability, compatibility the crowd asked.
You can read more about what USA TODAY NETWORK is doing in VR here.
The takeaways are highlighted in the below quotes:
