{"id":252575,"date":"2018-03-16T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252575"},"modified":"2018-03-16T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T08:49:42","slug":"cnnvr-launches-on-oculus-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/252575-cnnvr-launches-on-oculus-rift.html","title":{"rendered":"CNNVR launches on Oculus Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNNVR, a virtual reality experience from CNN, has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/15\/cnnvr-launches-on-oculus-rift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>launched on Oculus Rift<\/strong><\/a> headsets.<\/p>\n<p>The app gives audiences the power to \u201cgo there\u201d through an interactive experience comprised of CNN\u2019s news video and original 360-degree stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first truly live VR news experience, as the app positions the user as the producer of their own show,&#8221; said CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Following a user tutorial voiced by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, users can choose \u201cNews\u201d for video from CNN or \u201c360\u201d for original 360 video from CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The app launches with over 100 virtual reality stories from dozens of countries, all in 4K with encoding by Pixvana.<\/p>\n<p>The CNNVR app also includes a CNN ticker scroll and social integration with CNN\u2019s Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AeNvJC1EVXI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/201874-cnn-launches-virtual-reality-newsroom.html\">CNN launches virtual reality newsroom<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNNVR has launched on Oculus Rift headsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":252577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[5634,41822,17848],"class_list":["post-252575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-cnn","tag-cnnvr","tag-oculus-rift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252653,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252575\/revisions\/252653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}